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Innovation, Biodesign, Culture, and Technology

ADM Symposium 2017

June 20 - 21, 2017

Innovation, Biodesign, Culture and TechnologyADM Symposium 2017

The front lines between Art, Culture, Biodesign, and

Technology and knowledge production seem to be in

transformation. Based on the vivid interest in inter-disciplinary

dialogue that characterized social linking of different individuals

and groups as well as dialogue between and across disciplinary

lines and practices, is the main focus of the symposium. The field

of art that interacts with the practices of science and technologies

is commonly referred to new and innovative field.However, with

the new wave of environmentalism,a further wave of artists

working with methods and questions related to scientific research

has also emerged. The mediators of science and technology are

unavoidable, whether dealing with global economy or animal

rights, computer modelling or carbon emissions.The symposium

seeks to contextualize the practices of art&science both in the

contemporary atmosphere and the history of contemporary art.

The aim of this symposium is to bring together artists and

scientists from all over the world to present and discuss

interdisciplinary investigations between the domains of science

and art including avant-garde research and paradigms of

interdisciplinary cooperation. Based on the vivid interest in inter-

disciplinary dialogue, social linking of different individuals and

groups,as well as dialogue between and across disciplinary lines

and practices, focusing on existing and potential interactivity

between art and science is a main focus of the symposium

Dr. Galina Mihaleva, NTU

Chair of ADM Symposium 2017

Welcome message


9.00am- 9.45amRegistration and Morning Tea

9.45am- 10.00am Welcome Address & Introduction by Chair, School of Art Design & Media

Vibeke Sorensen (Prof)Chair, School of Art, Design & Media Nanyang Technological University Singapore

10 am- 12.00pm Biodesign and Designed bioWhy Bio is the new Digital and Digital is the new Bio?

Veronica Ranner (Keynote) Royal College of Art (10:00 am - 10:30 am)

Pat Pataranutaporn (Skype)Biodesign Institute, ASU(10: 30 am - 11:00 am)

Frederik ZenhouzernDirector, Center for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine, U of Arizona(11:00 am - 11:30 am)

Alexander Melkozernov (Skype)Center for Bio-Inspired Solar Fuel Production(11:30 am - 12:00 pm)

12:00pm - 1pm Lunch Break

Bio, Identity and CultureHow might biology inspire and shape the future of our identity, culture and society

Ionat Zurr, PhDSymbioticA, The University of Western Australia(1:00 pm - 1:30 pm)

Melentie PandilovskiDirector Manager Arts & Cuture DevelopmentCity of Mount Gambier South Australia, Australia(1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)

Werasak Surareungchai, PhDChair of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Graduate Research Program at KMUTT(2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)

Audrey NgSchool of Art, Design & Media Nanyang Technological University(3:30 pm - 4:00 pm)

3:30pm - 4pm Coffee Break

Bio and EngineeringMake, build, design with bio

Speaker(4:30 pm - 5:00 pm)

Lorenzo MasiaSchool of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering(5:00 am - 5:30 pm)

Day 1- 20 June, 2017


9.00am- 9.45am Registration and Morning Tea

10 am- 12.00pm Innovation and AestheticsHow does new design, and aesthetics emerge in the age of technology and innovation?

Suzanne Anker (Keynote-Skype) Founder of the Bio Art Lab and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts, New York(10:00 am - 10:30 am)

Smitt Loha-UnchitCo-Founding Principal at CAL Design(10:30 am - 11:00 am)

Shashi JainIoT Innovation Manager at Intel (Skype)(2:30 pm - 3:00 pm)

Diego Gonzalez-Zuniga, PhDSenior Engineer at Samsung Research UK.(11:30pm - 12:00pm)

12:00 pm - 1:00 pmLunch Break

1:00 pm - 4:00pm Homo TechnologicusHow technology redefine what does it means to be human and how techno - ecosystem create new cultures?

Margarita BenitezFashion Technologist, Assistant Professor in Fashion Design at Kent State University’s Fashion School(1:00 pm - 1:30 pm)

Speaker(1:30 pm - 2:00 pm)

Marcus VoglAssociate Professor in Graphic Design,Myers School of Art at the University of Akron(2:00 pm - 2:30 pm)

Ben Alvin Shedd (Prof) School of Art, Design and MediaCollege of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences(3:00 pm - 3:30 pm)

Vibeke Sorensen (Prof)Chair of School of Art, Design & Media Nanyang Technological University

(4:00 pm - 4:30 pm)

4:30 pm - 7:00 pm Visit the ArtScience Museum Singapore

Day 2- 21 June, 2017


Vibeke Sorensen is an artist, composer, and professor working in digital multimedia and animation, stereography, interactive architectural installation, and networked visual music performance. Her work in experimental new media spans more than four decades and has been published and exhibited worldwide, including in books, galleries, museums, conferences, performances, film festivals, on cable and broadcast television, and the internet.

Vibeke SorensenChair, School of Art, Design & Media Nanyang Technological University

Veronica's work sits on the interstices of emerging(bio-)technologies, bio-fabrication, biodesign, systems design, speculative and critical design (SCD) and aims to understand and develop new roles for designers.She currently pursues an AHRC funded PhD at the Royal College of Art (Creative Exchange) and holds a Visiting Scientist position with SilkLab at Tufts University in Boston (MA, USA), examining the burgeoning domain of the bio-digital — a converging knowledge space where computational thinking meets biological matter. Her work and research explores the polyphonic potential of bio-digital configurations through speculative critical design.

Veronica RannerRoyal College of Art

Pat Pataranutaporn is a creative biologist, artist, innovator and undergraduate student within Barrett, the Honors College and College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Arizona State University. His work examines a range of topics, including environmental biotechnology and interactive media at the intersection of biodesign, futurism, and computation. He has collaborated with people from a variety of disciplines around the world to push the boundary of possibility. Pat has developed great appreciation for both the arts and sciences. Much of Pat’s creativity and innovative passion for prototyping originated from his love of dinosaurs. Currently, Pat is a research fellow at the Biodesign Institute, School of Art, Media & Engineering, and the cofounder of award winning technology startups, Humanity X Technologies and BioX.

Pat PataranutapornBiodesign Institute, ASU


Dr. Zenhausern received his BS in biochemistry from the University of Geneva, a MBA in finance from Rutgers University and his Doctorate Es Science in Applied Physics from the department of Condensed Physics Matter at the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Dr. Zenhausern has co-authored more than 70 scientific publications and is named on more than a dozen issued U.S. patents. Dr. Zenhausern has held several corporate research position, including: Visiting Scientist (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, NY), Head of Physical Measurements Group (Firmenich Inc., NJ), Vice President Advanced Technology (Alpha-MOS America, Inc., NJ), and Manager of Microdevice Physics (Motorola Labs, AZ).

Frederik ZenhouzernDirector, Center for Applied NanoBioscience and Medicine, U of Arizona

Melentie Pandilovski is a media art theorist/historian, curator, and critic. I work as Director of Video Pool Media Arts Centre in Winnipeg, Canada. I have curated more than 150 exhibitions and organized numerous symposia, conferences, and workshops, in Europe, Australia, and Canada, such as: “SEAFair” (Skopje Electronic Art Fair) in the period 1997 – 2011; "Toxicity" in 2013-14, and “Marshall McLuhan & Vilém Flusser Communication & Aesthetics Theories Revisited”, in Winnipeg, Canada in 2012; “Biotech Art – Revisited” in Adelaide, South Australia in 2009, etc.

Melentie PandilovskiDirector Manager Arts & Cuture DevelopmentCity of Mount Gambier South Australia, Australia

An award winning artist and researcher, Zurr formed, together with Oron Catts, the Tissue Culture and Art Project. She has been an artist in residence in the School of Anatomy and Human Biology since 1996 and was central to the establishment of SymbioticA in 2000. Zurr, who received her PhD titled "Growing Semi-Living Art" from the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Visual Arts, is a core researcher and academic co-ordinator at SymbioticA. She is considered a pioneer in the field of biological arts and her work has been exhibited internationally. Zurr specialises in biological and digital imaging as well as video production. Zurr has studied art history, photography and media studies. She was a research fellow at the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Harvard Medical School from 2000-2001. Her PhD via SymbioticA examined the ethical and epistemological implications of wet biology art practices.

Ionat ZurrSymbioticA, The University of Western Australia


Werasak Surareungchai is a brainchild scientist who has developed novel techniques and technology in the field of biosensors, electroanalytical chemistry, and nanobiotechnology. His research focus on ultrasensitive, simultaneou, system-integrated chemical sensors and biosensors, in particular, transducing electrochemical and optical readouts for real-sample detection. With problem-oriented research interest, the sensing platforms aim for a wide spectrum of applications in healthcare, agricultural, food, and environmental monitoring sectors. Werasak Surareungchai is awarded with the prestigious “the most outstanding technologist of Thaliland” in 2016.

Werasak SurareungchaiChair of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Graduate Research Program at KMUTT

Lorenzo Masia graduated in Mechanical Engineering at “Sapienza” University of Rome in 2003, and in 2007 he accomplished his PhD in “Mechanical Measurement for Engineering” at the University of Padua with the Thesis “Design and Characterization of a Modular Robot for Hand Rehabilitation”. He was PhD visiting student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (from Jan- 2005 to Dec 2006) working at the Newman Lab for Biomechanics and Human Rehabilitation (Mechanical Engineering Dept.). Under the supervision of Dr. Hermano Igo Krebs and Prof. Neville Hogan, He designed the first prototype of InMotion Hand Robot for hand motor restoration, a modular device now commercialized by Interactive Motion Technologies Inc.(Cambridge, MA).

Lorenzo MasiaSchool of Mechanical & Aerospace EngineeringCollege of Engineering

Suzanne Anker is a pioneer in Bio Art working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. She works in a variety of mediums ranging from digital sculpture and installation to large-scale photography to plants grown by LED lights. Her work has been shown both nationally and internationally, including the JP Getty Museum, the Pera Museum in Istanbul, and the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. Her books include The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age, co-authored with the late sociologist Dorothy Nelkin, published in 2004 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Visual Culture and Bioscience, co-published by University of Maryland and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005, Ms. Anker continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s new digital initiative and the SVA Bio Art Laboratory.

Suzanne AnkerFounder Bio Art Lab and Chair of the Fine Arts Department, School of Visual Arts New York


Smitt Loha-Unchit is a Thai architect, who has grown up in 3 different continents. His area of expertise is in applying biomimicry and digital fabrication techniques to architectural design process. He was a fellow at Design Research Lab, Architectural Association School of Architecture, where he to push the boundary of creativity in his works. His philosophy is to not think outside the box, because he can barely see the box long ago. He enjoys arts, music, movie, and also to exchange conversation to get to know people, to learn something new. He consider himself to be in between gen-x and gen-y, right and wrong, art and science.

Smitt Loha-UnchitCo-Founding Principal at CAL Design

Focused on Corporate Innovation and working in the Internet of Things (IoT) and 3D Printing. Early stage startup advisor. Professional Speaker. Teacher of entrepreneurship. My work at Intel uses Lean Startup, Customer Development and Design Thinking to build new IoT products. I work with startups to accelerate these innovations to market. I bring a diverse skill set and 20 years experience in business development, engineering integration, rapid prototyping, and community building to my work.

Shashi JainIoT Innovation Manager at Intel

Diego González-Zúñiga (diekus) is a Senior Web Developer Advocate at Samsung Electronics in the UK. Born and raised in Costa Rica, he became an engineer in the Costa Rican Institute of Technology, where he later also finished a master degree in Information Systems. He continued his studies in Barcelona with a master degree in Multimedia from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He recently completed his doctoral studies in Informatics researching Stereoscopic Graphical User Interfaces in the same institution. Among, his main interests are the use of stereoscopic depth in applications, Virtual Reality on the web, creative uses of technology, electronic gadgets.

Diego Gonzalez-ZunigaSenior Engineer at Samsung Research UK.


In Fall 2015, I commence the sixth year as the Fashion Technologist and as an Assistant Professor in Fashion Design at Kent State University’s Fashion School. I am a hybrid creative researcher – an artist, designer, technologist, and academic. My educational and professional backgrounds are highly interdisciplinary which allows me to serve as a bridge between disciplines. My current creative research addresses fashion technology, interactive textiles, material explorations, digital fabrication, data visualization, interactive installations and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Margarita BenitezFashion Technologist, Assistant Professor in Fashion Design at Kent State University’s Fashion School

Audrey NgSchool of Art, Design & Media Nanyang Technological University

Alexander MelkozernovCenter for Bio-Inspired Solar Fuel Production

Markus Vogl is an Associate Professor in Graphic Design at the Myers School of Art at the University of Akron and a NE Ohio based multimedia artist experimenting in multiple sensory experiences combining sound, environments and interactive installation. He holds a Masters of Fine Art degree in New Media from Donau Universitaet Krems/transart institute and has 25 years of experience in the field. He has been recognized in Leonardo magazine for his collaboration Circadian Capital. He has received a 2012 NEA Media in Arts Grant for S.A.R.A.: Synesthetic Augmented Reality Application, a wearable synesthetic performance device.

Marcus VoglAssociate Professor in Graphic Design, Myers School of Art at the University of Akron

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