English below
次回のmetaPhorestセミナーは、オーストラリア在住のアーティストでありマテリアル研究者でもあるKate Scardifield博士にご登壇いただきます！水圏の生物に関する物質、美学、生態系の絡み合いに関するリサーチや芸術実践を探究してこられた方です。"Bio(mattering)"というコンセプトを掲げ、マテリアルに関する創造的な取り組みを通して、生態系や地球規模の物質循環についてより深く探究する試みについてご紹介いただく予定です。
本講演は英語で行いますが、日本語でのコメント・質問も歓迎します。基本的には対面ですが、遠隔のかたのためにzoom配信も行います。ただし、学内プロキシの都合でよい映像をお届けできない可能性が高いため、そこはご容赦ください。
The next metaPhorest seminar on OCT 24th welcome an artist/material researcher, Dr. Kate Scardifield from Australia.
Seminar Room 3, Waseda University TWIns, Tokyo
This lecture will be conducted in English, but comments and questions in Japanese are also welcome. It will primarily be held in person, but we will also stream it via Zoom for remote attendees. However, due to the university's proxy settings, we may not be able to provide a high-quality video feed. We appreciate your understanding in this matter.
zoom:
https://zoom.metaphorest.org/
Abstract:
(Bio)mattering by design
This presentation traces a body of research and creative practice concerned with the material, aesthetic, and ecological entanglements of aquatic life. Through the lens of bio(mattering) — an inquiry into how matter transforms and how environments co-compose — I will discuss recent projects that work with algal organisms and other marine matter, drawing from laboratory experimentation, fieldwork, and speculative prototyping. By engaging design as both a mode of inquiry and of making, bio(mattering) proposes that a material practice can operate as a form of ecological thinking — one that situates creative production within the dynamic metabolism of Earth’s systems and planetary boundaries.
Kate Scardifield Biography
Dr Kate Scardifield is an artist and materials researcher living and working on Gadigal Land, (Warang/Sydney, Australia). Her practice has sat at the nexus of art, design, science and technology for 15 years. Kate undertakes expansive and collaborative projects that investigate materials through states of transformation, transitioning critical systems of production, and how we might enable more sustainable material systems and ecologies. Her artworks span large-scale installations, biological materials, adaptable textiles, sculpture, and video.
Kate is the founder of Deep Blue Bio, a transdisciplinary studio and research network designing with biological processes and complex living systems. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) where she is Co-Director of the Material Ecologies Design Lab, and member of the Algal Biosystems and Biotechnology group in the UTS Climate Change Cluster (C3).
Recent exhibitions include Siteworks: From a Deep Valley, Bundanon Art Museum (2022-23); Pliable Planes: Expanded Textiles and Fibre Practices, UNSW Galleries, Freemantle Art Centre (2022-2024, touring); FREE/STATE: The Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, The Art Gallery of South Australia (2022); The lighter a thought the more it rises, Toi Moroki Centre of Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand (2019). Kate’s writing on new materials and material systems have been published across a range of platforms including Art Monthly Australasia, The Lifted Brow, and in academic journals including the Journal of Applied Phycology, the Journal of Cleaner Production, and World Futures Review.
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