*CANCELLED* Winter Lunchtime Seminar Series featuring Marta de Menezes

*Cancelled*
Winter Lunchtime Seminar Series featuring Marta de Menezes
Wednesday, March 11 | 11:30am-12:30pm
The Sensorium Research Loft, 4th Floor GCFA (Room M333)
RSVP to sensinfo@yorku.ca
*Due to unforeseen circumstances the Winter Lunchtime Seminar Winter Lunchtime Seminar Series featuringMarta de Menezeshas been cancelled.*
Marta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist (b. Lisbon, 1975) with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon, a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford, and a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden. She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies can be used as new art medium. In 1999 de Menezes created her first biological artwork (Nature?) by modifying the wing patterns of live butterflies. Since then, she has used diverse biological techniques including functional MRI of the brain to create portraits where the mind can be visualised (Functional Portraits, 2002); fluorescent DNA probes to create micro-sculptures in human cell nuclei (nucleArt, 2002); sculptures made of proteins (Proteic Portrait, 2002-2007), DNA (Innercloud, 2003; The Family, 2004) or incorporating live neurons (Tree of Knowledge, 2005) or bacteria (Decon, 2007). Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions, articles and lectures. She is currently the artistic director ofEctopia, an experimental art laboratory in Lisbon, and Director ofCultivamos Culturain the South of Portugal.
About the Winter Lunchtime Seminar Series
The Winter Lunchtime Seminar Series is a weekly event which aims to foster interconnectivity between faculty, graduate students, visiting scholars and artists within the School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design.This casual, lunch time seminar series will host a variety of graduate student presentations, faculty presentations and pitch sessions, open luncheons, topical discussions, invited speakers and external associations or organizations looking to interface with our community and share their work.
The Sensorium Research Loft is wheelchair accessible. For accessibility details, please emailsensloft@yorku.ca.