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Paul Vanouse: Selected Biotech and electronic workshops:
From 2000 to present, workshops
have focused on opportunistic electronica, radio construction projects,
bioinformatics and predominantly wetware hacking. A loose
collection of images follow:
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Amateur Enthusiast Biotech Workshop, FAMU (Prague Film School) and Intermedia Institute. At the heart of this workshop is a hands-on laboratory project in which attendees will carry out restriction digestion of an organisms DNA sample with varied cutting enzymes and then image the restricted samples with gel electrophoresis. Through this hands-on practice, the massive abstraction that is DNA code should become more concrete to participants and deeper questions raised about DNA imaging (April 2008) |
| Creative Reuse and Reinterpretation, parts A through T: Bioinformatics,
Paul Vanouse and Joan Linder, Cal State, San Marcos. This workshop examined bioinformatics from an artist's perspective. Students completed group projects using free, publicly available online databases, and repurposed consumer software as resources. (November 2006) |
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Wetware Hackers Workshop. A series of biotech workshops for ISEA 2006 and Zero-One San Jose
with Paul Vanouse, Beatriz DaCosta, Tau-Mu Yi, Oron Catts, Natalie
Jeremijenko, Phil Ross. Techniques addressed included: 1.) Constructing and testing a yeast based Pollution Sensor. 2.) Tissue engineering workshop for artists. 3.) DNA separation, visualization and interpretation. 4.) Human-Animal Food. The goal of each workshop is to teach safe, relatively simple procedures that illuminate fundamental principles of molecular biology, to highlight many of the conceptual and ethical issues that have motivated artistic exploration in these areas and to expand the community of artists conversant with these topics. (August 2006) |
| Amateur Enthusiast Biotech Workshop, Eyebeam Gallery, New York, NY, (June 2006). This workshop explores DNA imaging techniques within a ceative practice. The workshop is an introduction to DNA identification processes, contextualized by discussion of typical uses in the biotech sphere, ultimately aimed at expanding discourse and opening doors for artistic exploration. The workshop was split into two sections: the first for "digital daycamp" high-school students (pictured here), and the second for the general public. |
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Opportunistic Electronica Workshop with Paul Vanouse, Millie Chen, Warren Quigley at
the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, Chongqing, China, (April 2006). These students of the Fine Arts Institute are learning to build custom mp3 playing loudspeaker systems powered from bicycle generators. The workhop was a component of a two month project and residency and culminated in the project PED.Chongqing. |
| Tactical Media Workshop with Critical Art Ensemble, Faith Wilding and Paul
Vanouse. ESC im Labor, Graz, Austria, (Sept. 2000). Participants built low wattage radios, developed a series of short responses to the recent elections, broadcast the responses via inconspicuous mobile stations. |
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