Researcher: WhiteFeather Hunter (Spec Life BioLab Technician, MFA 2016)

Project scope:

“BIOMATERIA is a vital materialist mixed media and digital installation of works. The artworks in Biomateria form an inquiry into the aesthetic, conceptual and practical crossovers between textile techniques, wet biology laboratory practices and micro-ecology. Much of this work specifically comments on the relationship between nonhuman agents (cells) and human technological and creative industry, via the crafting of textile-based forms seeded with live mammalian cell lines.”

Activities/ Publications:

• Artist residency, SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, University of Western Australia
• Crafting Biotextiles – No Shapeless Meaning + No Meaningless Shape artist talk, SymbioticA, University of Western Australia
• Projects: Alternate Anatomies Lab, Curtin University
• Material/Immaterial exhibition, ARTLAAB, University of Western Australia
• Biomateria + Contagious Matters exhibition, FOFA Gallery, Concordia University
• Biomateria + Contagious Matters artist talk, Studio XX, Montreal

• Mangling Methodologies in Biological Art and Display Practices discussion panel

• Crafting Biotextiles, Concordia University
• Biomateria: Biotextile Craft publication
• Public Health Agency of Canada – 1st DIY Bio Summit
• Milieux Institute: Concordia University’s cutting-edge hub where research intersects and inspires, Montreal Gazette
• Jeune chercheuse étoile: WhiteFeather Hunter, Curium Magazine

• WhiteFeather Hunter en vedette dans CURIUM, Fonds de recherche du Québec – Sociéte et Culture

• Function Keys 3 Conference of New Technology and Digital Culture, Centre3, Hamilton, ON
• Critical Superbeast: Vibrant Fibre: WhiteFeather’s Biotextiles
• Leonardo Abstracts Service thesis paper publication, Biomateria: Biotextile Craft
• Biomateria, Archée: revue d’art en ligne: arts médiatiques & cyberculture
• WhiteFeather, Clot Magazine
• Mention: This Scientist Makes Ears Out of Apples, TED Talks
• Palais des congrès de Montréal Recognition Award Gala (FRQSC)
• Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art Materials / Aesthetics / Ethics
  conference, University College London, UK
• Mention: Right Turn: Andrew Pelling Redux, Signals Blog, Stem Cell Ethics Education, W Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia

• Bodily Matters: Human Biomatter in Art (part 3: On expendable body parts),We Make Money, Not Art

• WhiteFeather: Textile Alumna and Master of BioArt, New Brunswick College of Craft and Design News: Alumni Success Story
• Textiles and Materiality at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
• Flesh and fiber: WhiteFeather Hunter takes bio art to new frontiers, Visual Arts News, Nova Scotia
• L’art est vivant! exhibition, Maison des arts de Laval
• L’art est vivant? exhibition, Centre d’exposition de Val-d’Or

Partners/ supporters for the research activities as part of Biomateria include:

• Fluxmedia
• SymbioticA Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, Dept of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology, University of Western Australia
• Pelling Laboratory for Biophysical Manipulation, uOttawa
• Alternate Anatomies Lab, Curtin University
• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
• Concordia International
• Concordia School of Graduate Studies
• Faculty of Fine Arts, Concordia
• Hexagram Research Network
• artsnb/ New Brunswick Arts Board
• Sacher Lab, Dept. of Biology, Concordia
• Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et Culture (FRQSC)
• private donors and patrons