OpenIdea_093 Heather Barnett

Co-creating with Superorganisms

What can you expect?

Heather Barnett's art practice engages with living systems, imaging technologies and playful pedagogies to mediate interspecies encounters between human and nonhuman subjects, exploring the relationships between biological, social and technological systems. She employs diverse media including film, installation and immersive technologies. Her work centres on nonhuman intelligence, collective behaviour and experimental systems for co-enquiry, including an ongoing 'collaboration’with an intelligent slime mould; investigating the complexities of the ant colony; and a series of publicly situated bio/social collective experiments.
Heather Barnett will share works created with living systems - such as slime mould cells, ant colonies and human groups - exploring how organisms function as models within interdisciplinary artistic research in material, speculative and metaphorical ways. Traversing the studio, the lab and the field methods and practices are designed to create interspecies encounters and encourage perspective shifts.

Lecturers

Heather is Pathway Leader on the MA Art and Science and Co-Director of the Living Systems Lab at Central Saint Martins (University of the Arts London). She has exhibited in both solo and group shows in the UK and internationally including, Victoria & Albert Museum, Science Museum, and Wellcome Collection, London; the Pompidou Centre, Paris; the New Institute, Rotterdam; and the Observatory, New York. She has published on both her artistic and pedagogic practice with MIT Press, Routledge, Intellect, PUBLIC and Welbeck and speaks internationally on living systems art, relational ecologies, and art/science pedagogies.

Event language

English

Audience

All interested parties are welcome to participate.

Participation

Participation in the event is free of charge and no registration is required

Details of the event

With the OpenIdea event series, the FHV's InterMedia degree programme invites you to an open discussion round in which exciting and diverse topics in the field of Design and Design are highlighted. International guests from a wide range of fields offer inspiring insights and encourage discussion. The focus will be on social & design, cultural and artistic aspects, Business and Management issues, technological developments and media strategies and their impact. OpenIdea offers a platform for interdisciplinary exchange and creates space for stimulating discussions about current challenges and trends. The event takes place several times a year and invites students, experts and interested parties to debate the future of Design together.