Please note venue and time change:

Lecture by internationally renowned Portuguese New Media Artist Marta
De Menezes.Marta specializes in Biological artwork including her
famous microsurgical modification of live butterfly wing patterns
(NATURE? '99). Marta is currently artist in residence at Symbiotica,
Art and Science Laboratory at The School of Anatomy & Human Biology
at University of Western Australia . De Menezes work can be seen at
the website http://www.martademenezes.com

Where: Wollongong University Faculty of Creative Arts, Building 25,
Lecture theatre 128

When: February 10th 2005, 12pm

Followed by an informal discussion with the artist.

For more information: contact Catherine Fargher (0415) 442 209 on
iristorm@ozemail.com.au or Brogan Bunt (02) 4221 4642. For University
map, visit:
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To access Uni by public transport, catch the 9.38 am kiama/nowra
train from central station (country trains) to Nth Wollongong station
and then access shuttle bus to the campus alight at creative arts
building.

Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist working at the intersection
between Art and Biology. She produces work in scientific research
laboratories, demonstrating that emerging biological technologies can
form the basis for new art forms and new ways of thinking about the
art/science divide. Born in Lisbon in 1975, de Menez has a degree in
Fine Arts from Lisbon University, and a MA in the History of Art and
Visual Culture from Oxford University. Her first biological artwork
(Nature?, 1999) involved the microsurgical modification of live
butterfly wing patterns. She has since then employed a range of
scientific technologies, including brain MRI, (Functional Portraits,
2002), fluorescent DNA (nucleArt, 2001), and protein synthesis to
(Proteic Portrait, 2002) - to produce an array of critically charged
two-dimensional and sculptural work. This work has been presented
internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures. She is
currently artist-in-residence at SymbioticA - the Art and Science
Laboratory at the School of Anatomy and Human Biology, University of
Western Australia. Working in collaboration with scientists she is
attempting to create sculptures using live neurons. A more detailed
summary of her various creative projects can be found at the artist's
website http://www.martademenezes.com



Previous Lectures 2003 * "Artist Talk" - Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal. (October 2003). * "In conversation
with curator Toby Whatley" Birmingham Museum & Art Galleries,
Birmingham, UK. (October 2003). * "Art in-vivo" - Max Plank
Intitute for Neurobiology, Munich, Germany. (September 2003). *
"The Laboratory as an Art Studio" - Darwin Centre, Natural History
Museum, London, UK. (June 2003). * "Art in vivo" - Instituto
Camoes, Paris, France. (March 2003). * "The Laboratory as an Art
Studio" - L'Art Biotech Symposium, Nantes, France. (March 2003). *
"The Laboratory as an Art Studio" - Universite Paris 6, Paris, France.

2002* "Nature?" - SkyArt Symposium, organised by the MIT Centre for
Advanced Visual Studies, Delphi, Greece. (October 2002). * "The
laboratory as an art studio" - The Aesthetics of Care Symposium,
Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia. (August
2002). * "The laboratory as an art studio" Lugar Comum, Lisbon,
Portugal. (May 2002). * "Biological Art" Portuguese Cultural Centre
- Instituto Camoes, Oxford, UK. (May 2002). * "The laboratory as an
art studio: collaborations between artists and scientists" Instituto
Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Lisbon, Portugal. (Jan 2002).

2001 * "Art and Biology" International Conference of Sculpture,
Pittsburgh, USA. (June 2001). * "The laboratory as an art studio"
Genetics Forum, Exeter College, University of Oxford, U.K. (April
2001). * "The laboratory as an art studio" Art and Biology Lectures,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA. (March 2001). *
"The laboratory as an art studio" University College of London,
London, U.K. (Jan 2001). 2000 * "Art in vivo" Departmental Seminar
- Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, U.K.
(Dec 2000). * "Nature?" Next-Sex Symposium - Ars Electronica 2000,
Linz, Austria (Sept 2000). * "Redesigning Nature" Growing Things
Meeting, New Media Institute, Banff, Canada (June 2000).