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 and Art Project.
Tags: Synapse, BEAP, SymbioticA, Tissue technologies, Organic, Biology
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creator of
Disembodied Cuisine
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Tags
Organic, Semi-living
 
creator of
Fish and Chips
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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
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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
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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: in collaboration with Guy Ben-Ary & Ionat Zurr, as part of the Tissue, Culture and Art Project
 

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  • Tissue Culture & Art Project (associate of)
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