Conferences

FEMeeting Sister Labs: Women in Art, Science, and Technology

April 25th, 26th and 27th 2024

FEMeeting Sister Labs Spring 2024.

Please join the Department of Art and Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts for a special convening in Buffalo of FEMeeting Sister Labs: Women in Art, Science and Technology. This 3-day event of local and international artists, scholars, students and community members features panels, workshops and an exhibition. 

FEMeeting is driven by the desire to develop and promote a more direct collaboration between women working at the intersection art, science, and technology. The meetings aim to disseminate projects being undertaken by women worldwide and, as a result, to contribute to the development of art-science research methodologies and to the growth of cooperation strategies that can increase knowledge sharing and bring communities closer.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information on FEMeeting, please visit the official website: https://femeeting.com

November 16 and 17, 2017

Scanning electron micrograph showing binding of the human respiratory tract pathogen, Moraxella catarrhalis, to cilia in primary human respiratory epithelial cells.  Image: Peter Bush, Charmaine Kirkham, Tim Murphy.  University at Buffalo.

In November of 2017, practitioners from across the arts, humanities and sciences came together for a two-day symposium to propose and discuss methods and aesthetics of engagement with microbial life from multidisciplinary perspectives to afford new vantages for inquiry.

Skin: Membrane: Habitat…

March 25, 2016

Skin: Membrane: Habitat….

This roundtable featured a lecture by Zbigniew Oksiuta (School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) and a panel/roundtable discussion on the theme of Skin, for instance as a site of identity, as a microbial habitat, as a barrier, and as an interface. The discussion included Oksiuta, Dr. Irus Braverman (School of Law, University at Buffalo), Shelley Jackson (WBFO Artist in Residence, University at Buffalo), Dr. Gerald Koudelka, (Department of Biology, University at Buffalo), Dr. Timothy Murray (Department of Comparative Literature, Cornell University), and Paul Vanouse (Department of Art, University at Buffalo.)

Coalesce Center for Biological Art

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