Oron Catts b.

  • Artist (Installation Artist),
  • Curator
Born in Finland, currently living and working in Western Australia Oron Catts is a tissue engineering artist. Co-founder of the Art/Science collaborative research lab SymbioticA, and co-founder of the Tissue Culture & Art Project.
Tags: Synapse, BEAP, SymbioticA, Tissue technologies, Organic, Biology
creator of
Disembodied Cuisine
Date
Tags
Organic, Semi-living
 
creator of
NoArk
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Medium
biotechnologies, organic matter
Tags
Organic, Cells, Tissue

Collaborative work. Consisted of a vessel in which living cells and tissue from a variety of organisms were grown and maintained.

Note: as part of the Tissue, Culture & Art Project
 
creator of
Dynamic Seeding Musical Bioreactor
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Medium
Tags
Pig, Music, Biological technologies, Tissue engineering

Collaboration between the Tissue Culture & Art Project and Adam Zaretsky (U.S). Involved exposing the 'Pig Wings’ being created by the Tissue, Culture & Art Project to music, in order to see how musical vibrations would impact upon the tissue mutations taking place in that art work.

Note: as part of the Tissue, Culture & Art Project
 
creator of
MEART - the semi living artist
Date
Medium
new media, tissue technologies, robotics, drawing, installation
Tags
Robotic arm, Neurons, Biological technologies, Science, SymbioticA
URL
http://www.iaaf.uwa.edu.au/smbunt/
 
http://www.fishandchips.uwa.edu.au/

Created by the SymbioticA Research Group, Gil Wienberg (US) and Matt Richards (US) in collaboration with US scientists Steve M Potter, Tom DeMarse & Alexander Shkolnik. Installation project in which electric signals from the activity of cultured neurons are communicated to a robotic arm which makes a drawing. The first stage of this project was titled Fish & Chips (2001).

Note: as part of the SymbioticA research group
 
creator of
Fish and Chips
Date
Medium
installation, tissue technologies, sound, robotics
Tags
Electrical, Biological technologies, Robotic arm, Installation
URL
http://www.iaaf.uwa.edu.au/smbunt/
 
http://www.fishandchips.uwa.edu.au/

Created by the SymbioticA research group in collaboration with US researchers Steve M Potter, Tom DeMarse and Alexander Shkolnik. Involved using the electrical activity of fish neurons to control a robotic arm which producing a drawing and sound. The installation consisted of a laboratory/studio style set-up, prototypes and project documentation. In 2002 this project evolved into the artwork 'Meart – the semi living artist’.

Note: as a member of the SymbioticA Research Group
 
creator of
Pig Wings
Date

Developed as part of the artists’ residency at the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, USA. Developed further in SymbioticA, UWA. The work involved using tissue engineering and stem cell technologies to grow pig bone tissue in the shape of three different sets of wings.

Note: as part of the Tissue, Culture & Art Project
 
creator of
The Semi-Living Worry Dolls
Date
Medium
degradable polymer, tissue culture
Tags
Organic, Tissue, Cells

7 'doll’ sculptures crafted from degradable polymers and surgical sutures. Sterilised and seeded with different kind of cells (skin, muscle and bone tissue), which cause the polymer to degrade as they grow (therefore the dolls constantly evolve). Tissue, Culture & Art Project in collaboration with SymbioticA and the Tissue Engineering and Organ Fabrication Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, USA.

Note: as part of the Tissue, Culture & Art Project
 
None
Courtesy of: Scanlines
creator of
The Tissue Culture + Art Project
Date
Medium
Installation
URL
http://scanlines.net/node/3025
 
http://archive.dlux.org.au/index.php?page=artworks&id=1032

The Tissue Culture & Art Project (TC&A) was set to explore the use of tissue technologies as a medium for artistic expression …