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FINAL WEEKS :: CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS :: 2022 AN

FINAL WEEKS :: CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS :: 2022 ANAT Synapse Residency.
We’re calling for applications from artists and scientists for our prestigious Synapse Residency program, which, since 2004, has enabled research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists.

In her 2021 ANAT Synapse residency Dr Svenja J Kratz immortalised fibroid cells isolated from a large fibroid tumour, taken from her uterus in 2020, as part of her project 'Posthuman Genetic Legacies'.

Working with host researchers Associate Professor Brad Sutherland, School of Medicine, UTAS + Associate Professor Jane Nielsen, Centre for Law and Genetics, UTAS + Distinguished Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Centre in Regenerative Medicine Group, QUT, Svenja examined the scientific potential and legal implications of securing alternative genetic offspring via biotechnological intervention.

Deadline: 16 February 2022, 5PM (ACDT)
FOR MORE details & to APPLY USE THE LINK IN OUR BIO

ANAT Synapse is made possible through the generous support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Images: 1. 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Svenja J Kratz, Tumour Baby cells – thawed 10/9/21 – viewed 13/9/21
2. 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Svenja J Kratz, 'Self-portrait #2: Site of Infection', 2019. Mixed media: wax, porcelain polymer clay, water vapour containing the DNA of the artist, electrical components. Installation view, Plimsoll Gallery. Photograph Remi Chauvin.

Image descriptions: 1. Multiple microscopic fibroid cells, appearing as glowing thin elongated shapes against a purple background.
2. Set against a black background, the white sculpted bust of a woman exhales a plume of vapour.

#AnatAlumni #CopyRightAgency @SvenjaKratz #ANATsynapse #CopyrightAgencyCulturalFund @AusCouncilArts #AusCouncilArts #ArtScienceTechnology #ArtistResidencies #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #inclusivity

"My fibroid cells are still struggling to gain a

"My fibroid cells are still struggling to gain a foothold. I have yet to reach 80 – 90% confluency. We assumed that they are fibroblasts, but the difficulty of growing them in DMEM suggests that they may need different media".
Excerpt from 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Dr Svenja J Kratz's blog.

This year Svenja immortalised fibroid cells isolated from a large fibroid tumour, taken from her uterus in 2020, as part of her project 'Posthuman Genetic Legacies'. She's been working with Associate Professor Brad Sutherland, School of Medicine, UTAS + Associate Professor Jane Nielsen, Centre for Law and Genetics, UTAS + Distinguished Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Centre in Regenerative Medicine Group, QUT during her ANAT residency.

Svenja says her residency and the project ambitions were "to give voice to the experience of women with reproduction problems, by considering the concept of offspring as cells rather than babies".

READ Svenja's blog USING THE LINK IN OUR BIO

We’re currently CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS for our 2022 ANAT Synapse residencies. See the LiNK IN OUR BIO for more details.

ANAT’s prestigious flagship program has supported creative research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists, since it was established in 2004. ANAT Synapse is made possible through the generous support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Image: An example of a successful Calcein dye process – live cells fluoresce a vibrant green – image via ABP Biosciences.
Calcein AM is a cell-permeant dye that can be used to determine cell viability in most eukaryotic cells. In live cells the nonfluorescent calcein AM is converted to a green-fluorescent calcein, after acetoxymethyl ester hydrolysis by intracellular esterases.

Image description: Microscopic fluorescent green cells against a black background. ABP Biosciences.

@svenjakratz #RegenerativeMedicine #qut #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2021 #BioTechnological #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund #bioart #sciart @qutrealworld #TasmanianSchoolOfMedicine #utas

CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS :: 2022 ANAT Synapse Resi

CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS :: 2022 ANAT Synapse Residency.
We’re calling for applications from artists and scientists for our prestigious Synapse Residency program, which, since 2004, has enabled research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists.

In her 2021 ANAT Synapse residency Dr Svenja J Kratz immortalised fibroid cells isolated from a large fibroid tumour, taken from her uterus in 2020, as part of her project 'Posthuman Genetic Legacies'.

Working with host researchers Associate Professor Brad Sutherland, School of Medicine, UTAS + Associate Professor Jane Nielsen, Centre for Law and Genetics, UTAS + Distinguished Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Centre in Regenerative Medicine Group, QUT, Svenja examined the scientific potential and legal implications of securing alternative genetic offspring via biotechnological intervention.

Deadline: 16 February 2022, 5PM (ACDT)
FOR MORE details & to APPLY USE THE LINK IN OUR BIO

ANAT Synapse is made possible through the generous support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Images: 1. 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Svenja J Kratz, Tumour Baby cells – thawed 10/9/21 – viewed 13/9/21
2. 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Svenja J Kratz, 'Self-portrait #2: Site of Infection', 2019. Mixed media: wax, porcelain polymer clay, water vapour containing the DNA of the artist, electrical components. Installation view, Plimsoll Gallery. Photograph Remi Chauvin.

Image descriptions: 1. Multiple microscopic fibroid cells, appearing as glowing thin elongated shapes against a purple background.
2. Set against a black background, the white sculpted bust of a woman exhales a plume of vapour.

#AnatAlumni #CopyRightAgency @SvenjaKratz #ANATsynapse #CopyrightAgencyCulturalFund @AusCouncilArts #AusCouncilArts #ArtScienceTechnology #ArtistResidencies #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #inclusivity

ANAT alumnus James Geurts’ 'Trajectories: Orbiti

ANAT alumnus James Geurts’ 'Trajectories: Orbiting Bodies Meet' is a new site-specific neon installation, commissioned for display on SAM’s 4th Floor Terrace. James has drawn on the museum’s close geographical proximity to the landing site of the Murchison meteorite. Identified as one of the most primitive and profound astronomical bodies, the Murchison meteorite has been the subject of intense study as the complex organic compounds found within it are thought to contain the building blocks of life.

The abstracted sculptural form suggests the intense light generated by the directional force of a meteorite entering our atmosphere, and the moment of impact with the earth’s skin.

The development of this project was supported through ANAT Synapse program and CSIRO Advanced Manufacturing, in collaboration with CSIRO scientists Dr Richard Evans and Dr Helmut Thissen working directly with the Murchison site and primordial material developed in the lab.

James was a recipient of the 2018 ANAT Synapse CSIRO Residencies, where he furthered his research into polymer coatings and primordial goo with the CSIRO’s Dr Richard Evans and Dr Helmut Thissen.

We’re currently CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS for our 2022 ANAT Synapse residencies.
See the LiNK IN OUR BIO for more details.

ANAT’s prestigious flagship program has supported creative research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists, since it was established in 2004. ANAT Synapse is made possible through the generous support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Image: 'Trajectories: Orbiting Bodies Meet', Image courtesy the artist
@sam_shepparton until 13 November 2022

Image description: Detail of an abstract site specific neon installation, gray shard like shapes and white tubes of neon light are embedded into the side of a building.

@james.geurts #jamesgeurts #AnatSynapseAlumni @csirogram #AnatAlumni #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund @auscouncilarts #auscouncilarts @rebecca_coates @smcspedden @sam_shepparton #sam_shepparton #gagprojects #csiro

Printing George's breath. Artist Linda Dement’s

Printing George's breath. Artist Linda Dement’s friend and mentor, the artist George Schwarz, departed this life 28/5/2021. He had heart failure. Linda recorded some of his last breaths.

As part of their 2021 ANAT Synapse residency Linda and Paul Brown have been working with this recording to produce 3D form to be bio-printed with live beating cardiac cells – cardiac growth on the shape and structure of cardiac failure – new life forming from last breaths. They plan to produce a series of mini-sculptures of George's final breath, to contain live cells embedded in both hydrogel (alginate gelatin) and possibly silk fibroin mix.

This time lapse video reveals the Lumen X+ printing process, dividing 3D models into stacks of horizontal layers in the form of black and white image files. Using an industrial-grade visible-light projector, each image is projected onto a droplet of liquid PhotoInk™ on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) vat.

READ Linda & Paul's BLOG USING THE LINK IN OUR BIO

We’re currently CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS for our 2022 ANAT Synapse residencies. See the LiNK IN OUR BIO for more details.

George is survived by his wife and co-conspirator, Charis, who is in close communication for this. See their work at http://www.george-charis.net

2021 ANAT Synapse residents Linda Dement and Paul Brown have been working with Dr Carmine Gentile and his team at the Cardiovascular Regeneration Group, University of Technology Sydney. https://www.gentilelab.com/

ANAT’s prestigious flagship program has supported creative research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists, since it was established in 2004. ANAT Synapse is made possible through the generous support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

#LindaDement #PaulBrown #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2021
#CopyrightAgency #CopyrightAgencyCulturalFund @AusCouncilArts #AusCouncilArts @utsengage #MiniHearts #UniversityOfTechnologySydney

We've been honoured and excited to support Old Way

We've been honoured and excited to support Old Ways, New to work with practitioners in the development of the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence (IP//AI) Prototype in 2021, this is the final installment in the series.

P//AI UNESCO: CONCLUSION

The key finding was that Indigenous Knowledge and processes cannot be removed from a complex system and made to work in isolation, or in a synthetic system that lacks the complexity of natural and Indigenous systems. The marriage algorithm does not work without the rest of the kinship system, along with the dynamic system of lands and territories that this system governs. Above all, none of it works without the particular secrets of women’s business that
determines who is born and when (and where) to maintain stable populations. This knowledge is restricted by gender and initiatory status, and we understand that many would find such restrictions tedious and a barrier to innovation.

However, it was through restriction protocols that we innovated a process for translating protocols into applications, and also came up with the idea for a future prototype using automation to assist Elders in giving permissions for access to Indigenous sites and knowledge. Self-determination for our communities will increasingly involve being able to assert data sovereignty in the future, and our contribution of a ‘blackfella box’ protocol may prove useful as AI and IoT (the Internet of Things) increasingly impact our communities’ ability to maintain sovereignty and wellbeing. Perhaps our most valuable findings were about the importance of Indigenous leadership in AI, and of course, always maintaining the protocol of ‘blackfella-in-the-loop’..

READ the Extended paper VIA LINK IN BIO

We're excited to support Old Ways, New to work wit

We're excited to support Old Ways, New to work with practitioners in the development of the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence (IP//AI) Prototype in 2021.

IP//AI UNESCO: INSIGHT> INDIGENOUS ETHICS> STANDARDS> PROTOCOLS> CODE

While defining the intention, purpose and creation story of tools driving autonomous decision-making utilities, developmental and cultural protocols began to merge. Once we worked through each AI subset or domain and its discrete processes, languages and related syntax for code we were able to translate the ethics to specific standards and developmental protocols. This enabled the translation of protocols for rules and code to evolve.

The avoidance protocol application was flagged as interesting but was not carried forward in the next iteration towards a prototype. The next developmental phase was informed by the moieties and sub-moieties of the kinship system. We applied these to a thought experiment we called ‘Sugarbagscape’ in which we reimagined the original agent-based modeling software Sugarscape (Epstein & Axtell, 1996) as being designed with kinship protocols for reproduction and land/resource management.

The agent-based modeling software was envisioned as having kinship/totemic/clan territories embedded in a landscape as law (protocols) to regulate the lawful behaviour of agents. Agents would have a limited set of protocols governing metabolic cycles, breeding cycles, peak harvest cycles, migration cycles etc. adjusted to different settings. Human agents would have ritual cycles added, as well as cycles for burning/regenerating particular ecosystems in the landscape. Plants would have the migration cycle set to zero…

READ the Extended paper VIA LINK IN BIO

Authors:
Professor Angie Abdilla
Megan Kelleher
Rick Shaw
Dr Tyson Yunkaporta

Artist Linda Dement’s friend and mentor, the art

Artist Linda Dement’s friend and mentor, the artist George Schwarz, departed this life 28/5/2021. He had heart failure. Linda recorded some of his last breaths.

As part of their 2021 ANAT Synapse residency Linda and Paul Brown have been working with this recording to produce 3D form to be bio-printed with live beating cardiac cells – cardiac growth on the shape and structure of cardiac failure – new life forming from last breaths.

Linda and Paul have created many different kinds of visualisations of the recording, including...

Image 1. George's breath as a 3d shape, from frequency x volume over time.
2. George's breath as mini-sculptures, printed by a LumenX bioprinter, photograph Dr. Carmine Gentile, Cardiovascular Regeneration Group. https://www.gentilelab.com/
3. George's breath as lines printed on Hahnemuhle paper.
4. The LumenX bioprinter printing a 3d model of Georges's breath.

READ Linda & Paul's BLOG USING THE LINK IN OUR BIO

George is survived by his wife and co-conspirator, Charis, who is in close communication for this. See their work at http://www.george-charis.net

2021 ANAT Synapse residents Linda Dement and Paul Brown have been working with Dr Carmine Gentile and his team at the Cardiovascular Regeneration Group, University of Technology Sydney.

We’re currently CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS for our 2022 ANAT Synapse residencies. See the LiNK IN OUR BIO for more details.

ANAT’s prestigious flagship program has supported creative research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists, since it was established in 2004. ANAT Synapse is made possible through the generous support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

#LindaDement #PaulBrown #ANATalumni #ANATsynapse2021 #copyrightagency #copyrightagencyculturalfund @auscouncilarts #auscouncilarts @utsengage #MiniHearts #universityoftechnologysydney @utshealth

CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS :: 2022 ANAT Synapse Resi

CALLING FOR APPLICATIONS :: 2022 ANAT Synapse Residency.
We’re calling for applications from artists and scientists for our prestigious Synapse Residency program, which, since 2004, has enabled research collaborations between more than 100 artists and scientists.

In her 2021 ANAT Synapse residency Dr Svenja J Kratz immortalised fibroid cells isolated from a large fibroid tumour, taken from her uterus in 2020, as part of her project 'Posthuman Genetic Legacies'.

Working with host researchers Associate Professor Brad Sutherland, School of Medicine, UTAS + Associate Professor Jane Nielsen, Centre for Law and Genetics, UTAS + Distinguished Professor Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Centre in Regenerative Medicine Group, QUT, Svenja examined the scientific potential and legal implications of securing alternative genetic offspring via biotechnological intervention.

Deadline: 16 February 2022, 5PM (ACDT)
FOR MORE details & to APPLY USE THE LINK IN OUR BIO

ANAT Synapse is made possible through the generous support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

Images: 1. 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Svenja J Kratz, 'Self-portrait #2: Site of Infection', 2019. Mixed media: wax, porcelain polymer clay, water vapour containing the DNA of the artist, electrical components. Installation view, Plimsoll Gallery. Photograph Remi Chauvin. 2. 2021 ANAT Synapse resident Svenja J Kratz, Tumour Baby cells – thawed 10/9/21 – viewed 13/9/21

Image descriptions: 1. Set against a black background, the white sculpted bust of a woman exhales a plume of vapour. 2. Multiple microscopic fibroid cells, appearing as glowing thin elongated shapes against a purple background.

#AnatAlumni #CopyRightAgency @SvenjaKratz #ANATsynapse #CopyrightAgencyCulturalFund @AusCouncilArts #AusCouncilArts #ArtScienceTechnology #ArtistResidencies #research #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #inclusivity

ANAT ALUMNUS :: Catherine Truman has been working

ANAT ALUMNUS :: Catherine Truman has been working at the intersection between art and science for over 20 years, collaborating with neuroscientists, anatomists and microscopists. Her practice is renowned for its diversity and incorporates contemporary jewellery, objects, digital image and film installation with a focus upon the parallels between artistic process and scientific method.

ANAT first worked with Catherine in 2007 on reSkin, a wearables research and development lab bringing together twenty national and international artists at ANU. Four years later Catherine was a 2011 ANAT Synapse resident working alongside Professor Ian Gibbins, Head of Anatomy and Histology at Flinders University. Collaborating with neuroscientist and poet, @iangibbins52 was to become a recurring element of Catherine's practice.

“Opportunities to build these kinds of relationships are rare" says Catherine. Her Synapse residency was a period of profound learning and exchange "that kindled my enthusiasm" Catherine says "for the challenge and rich rewards of cross-disciplinary collaboration".

ANAT's connection to Catherine continued last year, when she was our first guest in #ANATsoapbox sharing behind the scenes glimpses of the works created for Shared Reckonings, a direction the artist says she will continue following in the future. "The sheer impact of human intervention in the natural world and the precarious future we face was brought into sharp focus in 2020. The pandemic has taught us that global issues become more personal when you have to rely on your own resources and ingenuity, when restrictions apply and uncertainty prevails."

This new project will be based in a well-known historic residence in Adelaide, functioning as a museum. Catherine will be seeking collaborations with historians, plant scientists, and horticulturalists.

The ANAT alumni is a network of hundreds of artists, scientists and technologists. A lifelong community of remarkable, diverse and engaged professionals.

Image: Catherine Truman and Angela Chappell, 2019, nasturtium leaf bud stained with fluorescein dye.

We're excited to support Old Ways, New to work wit

We're excited to support Old Ways, New to work with practitioners in the development of the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence (IP//AI) Prototype in 2021.

IP//AI UNESCO: STORY AND FINDINGS OF THE IP//AI INCUBATOR

Protocols in Indigenous cultures are not simply commandments or statements of norms such as, “Look after Country and Country will look after you”. Protocols are quite specific and deal with relational behaviours that must be adhered to in specific contexts (e.g. Where does a young person direct their voice and gaze when in the presence of an opposite gender Elder of high status?). In our yarns to begin outlining and testing various protocols, we commenced quite broadly with general Indigenous ethics, building on previous work in this area (Lewis et al, 2020) which was a good ethical starting point but did not elucidate the specificity that software engineers require to inform programming standards, protocols or, rules as code.

We began this work with an awareness of Indigenous data sovereignty issues an emergent field involving Indigenous control over the protection and use of data that is collected from our communities, including statistics, cultural knowledge and even user data. We nicknamed our desired protocols around this as ‘Blackfella box’, referencing the idea of ‘black boxes’ in digital systems; this was our shorthand for identifying areas of knowledge that we could not share with the world. We also flagged this as a potential test case for automating a restricted knowledge protocol, possibly using a blockchain/smart contract application that we referred to as “Proof of Aunty”, asserting that proof of cultural authority is more of a priority for us than proof of stake or proof of work....

READ the Extended paper VIA LINK IN BIO

Authors:
Professor Angie Abdilla
Megan Kelleher
Rick Shaw
Dr Tyson Yunkaporta

As we say goodbye to 2021, we'd like to say hello

As we say goodbye to 2021, we'd like to say hello to 2022 with the ANNOUNCEMENT OF DATES for ANAT SPECTRA 2022 Multiplicity, reconfigured for these mercurial times as a Limited Series event.

SPECTRAvision: March 25 to April 14, 2022, online
SPECTRAlive: April 21 to April 23, 2022, Melbourne

We're also delighted to announce our partner, Science Gallery Melbourne. Part of the acclaimed global Science Gallery Network pioneered by Trinity College Dublin, Science Gallery Melbourne is located in Melbourne Connect – a new innovation precinct being developed by the University of Melbourne.

We're looking forward to revealing more about SPECTRAvision and hosting you in Melbourne next year, face-to-face, side-by-side, on and off-screen.

For more details USE THE LINK IN OUR BIO
& visit spectra.org.au

Image description: 1. A vintage television set with a 'please stand by' test pattern visible on the screen. 2. The exterior of Science Gallery, Melbourne, featuring a predominantly red brick wall facade with large glass doors and vertical signage.

@scigallerymel @unimelb @not_yet_its_difficult @leonardoisast @typecastent @AusCouncilArts @ArtsSouthAus @ttwd.next #ANATspectra2022 #DavidPledger #multiplicity #HybridEvents #AusCouncilArts #ArtSci #ArtTech #ArtScienceTechnology #SustainableFutures

We're excited to support Old Ways, New to work wit

We're excited to support Old Ways, New to work with practitioners in the development of the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence (IP//AI) Prototype in 2021.

IP//AI UNESCO: INDIGENOUS DESIGN PRINCIPLES FOR DEEP LEARNING

In the story of our collaborative deep learning experience (in the Indigenous sense of deep learning as inhabiting the ontologies of human and non-human entities within diverse systems) there is a preliminary experiment in genetic computing that attempts to apply Indigenous methodologies to ‘breeding’ algorithms. Genetic computing seeks to leverage evolutionary processes in AI systems. Because of limitations we perceived in all axiomatic systems, we regarded this as a quixotic quest, as we did not believe that any mechanically built system could achieve the state of complexity that produces emergent qualities.

Our Indigenous perspective on this problem was that a system can only be considered in its entirety, and that technology can never be more than the sum of its parts. Further, the ‘meaning’ of a system is not separate from the system itself, which we saw as a limitation in modelling exercises. Always grounding our thoughts in Country, we aligned these concerns with Mandelbrot’s observation (Milnor, 1989) that for a map of an area to contain all the features of that area, the map would have to be as big as the area itself. We agreed that the quest by some in physics for a “Theory of Everything” (Hawking, 2006), a coherent set of rules that can describe all phenomena, is not achievable as a thing separate from the whole universe. In Country Centred Design, you can never stand outside a system and observe or intervene - you must embrace the fact that you are part of that system…

READ the Extended paper VIA LINK IN BIO

Authors:
Professor Angie Abdilla
Megan Kelleher
Rick Shaw
Dr Tyson Yunkaporta

ANAT ALUMNUS Dr Wade Marynowsky is an artist and r

ANAT ALUMNUS Dr Wade Marynowsky is an artist and researcher working collaboratively across art forms, including robotics, immersive and interactive performance and installation, music and video.

One of Wade's latest projects (featured image) is a series of prospective public artworks, proposing that renewable energy can be beautiful. 'Sun Bird' is rooftop solar solution, providing shelter and producing surplus power and light. Imagined by lead artist Wade and an interdisciplinary team called the Visual Energy Group, who are supported by the University of Technology Sydney.

ANAT worked with Wade in 2020 as an ANAT Ideate resident, when we asked 6 artists 'how can art and technology be transformative in the (post) pandemic world?' Wade created an answer in his own backyard! His work, 'AquaTronics', combined an aquaponics ecosystem and edible plants with a technological ecosystem to produce fish, food and art in the form of a live and living performance or installation. During this residency the seeds for the new Visual Energy group ideas came to life.

Drawing from renewable energy systems, computer science, art, music and architecture, the Visual Energy Group are Kaveh Khalilpour, Ian Stevenson, Sam Ferguson, Wade Marynowsky, David Pigram, Nico Pietroni and Dane Voorderhake.

Image: Wade Marynowsky and the Visual Energy Group, 'Sun Bird’, 2021.

Image description: Solar panels embedded into the top of the structure provide an alternative rooftop solar solution, in addition to producing surplus electricity 'Sun Bird' produces shade/shelter and night light, in the form of a large scale illuminated structure in the shape of a bird's outstretched wings. The vivid purple gradient in the wings perched at the top of a building set against a night sky with a full moon, highlight the need for artistically driven renewable energy solutions that can localise energy production and provide meaningful symbols of emissions reduction.

@wademarynowsky @utsengage #ANATideate2020 #wademarynowsky #RenewableEnergy #SunBird #VisualEnergyGroup

We're excited to support Old Ways, New to work wit

We're excited to support Old Ways, New to work with practitioners in the development of the Indigenous Protocols and Artificial Intelligence (IP//AI) Prototype in 2021.

IP//AI UNESCO: METHODOLOGY

Country Centred Design (CCD) was developed as an alternative to the human-centred design processes which preface the needs of humans above and beyond any other living being, element, entity and or natural system (Old Ways, New, 2016). The Indigenous-led process comprises four key cycles: culture, research, strategy and technology, reflecting the nature of our relationship with natural, complex systems. The CCD methodology has been tested in a variety of contexts and iteratively developed to be structurally flexible for utility while providing specificity as required. Indigenous knowledge systems, cultural practices and design principles guide the cyclic methodology, all the time prioritising and centering the needs of Country and respecting its agency and autonomy as an intelligent entity.

The first cycle, culture, begins by developing relationships with Traditional Custodians and their communities; utilising strategic stakeholder engagement practices which assist in building a cultural understanding of Country from deep time, colonial, post-colonial, present and future dreamings at the heart of the project. Adherence to the cultural protocol of beginning with appropriate Indigenous Custodian consultation brings the group under customary authority and guidance to ensure cultural integrity in project design.

For the IP//AI incubator project, the initial series of virtual workshops unfolded under Elder authority on Gadigal/Wangal lands (Sydney, Australia). Aunty Bronwyn Penrith (Wiradjuri/Yuin and Gadigal bloodlines) stewarded the work….

READ the Extended paper VIA LINK IN BIO

Authors:
Professor Angie Abdilla
Megan Kelleher
Rick Shaw
Dr Tyson Yunkaporta

"This shows we are about 93% Human! And part-bug… We are also Streptococcus mitis, Rothia mucilaginosa, Gemella haemolysans, Streptococcus pneumoniae (sounds scary!) and many other microbes we are yet to analyse (‘Other’ on the graph)!"

Over the past year ANAT SAHMRI resident Dr Helen Pynor and collaborator genomic scientist Dr Jimmy Breen, leader of the SAHMRI's Bioinformatics Platform have been exploring ideas around the liminality of DNA once it leaves its originating body.

Helen says "I’m excited that this graph shows a species breakdown of the DNA Jimmy and I extracted from our shared exhaled breath sample, data just compiled by Jimmy’s lab through genome sequencing."

"In the next stage of our work Jimmy will do a detailed analysis of all the genomic sequences of our sample, for a more precise picture of the origins of our heterogenous ‘interspecies’ DNA…”

As part of her residency Helen is compiling a dedicated creative research blog, documenting her research and artmaking process as it develops.

READ Helen's blog USING THE LINK IN OUR BIO

Image description: A line graph depicting the total quantity of DNA in the exhaled breath sample of Jimmy and Helen, broken down by species, with a 92.1% section in blue, nominated in the key below as 'Homo sapien'. The remaining smaller coloured areas of the graph are named as bacterial species 'Streptococcus mitis', 'Rothia mucilaginosa', 'Gemella haemolysans' and 'Streptococcus pneumoniae' along with 'Other' (species present in smaller quantities) and 'Unclassified' (DNA fragments that have not yet been assigned to a species).

#helenpynor @helenpynor @gammyknee #auscouncilarts #ArtistResidencies #research #RandD #ResearchAndDevelopment #experimentation #collaboration #creativity #innovation #diversity #SAHMRI #ArtScience #AnatAlumni #ANATsahmri @dominikmerschgallery #dna #speculative