SciArt Santa Fe hosts a FEMeeting LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Panel exploring Bioart and Gender in the Americas, A SciArt Santa Fe LASER Panel with Leena Lee (Lena Ortega), Cecilia Vica, Carol Padberg and Suzanne Anker.

About the Presenters

Cecilia Vilca is a Peruvian trans artist feminist, chola techno-witch and language activist. M.A. Digital Arts, Universitat PompeuFabra, Barcelona, Spain. Founding member of creative and digital heritage division, MyAP – Microscopía Electrónica y Aplicaciones en el Perú, Electron Microscopy Laboratory. Her artistic work is made with technology in concept and realization exploring its relationship with gender, society, and nature.

Leena Lee (Lena Ortega) is a sound artist, researcher, designer, and teacher who explores nature-culture relationships with particular emphasis on the ecology of the sound environment, bioacoustics, and field recordings. She is a member of the research and production group Arte+Ciencia of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. She hosts the radio program Sin Superficie, la Piel no es el Límite, which focuses on field recording, sound art, and experimental ambient music.

Carol Padberg is an artist, writer, educator and Co-Director, with Mary Mattingly, of the Low-Residency Concentration within the MFA in Studio Arts at the University of New Mexico. Carol weaves in collaboration with living Oyster mushrooms and is exploring their plastic digesting capacities. Activating regenerative agricultural strategies, she raises sheep on a farm in Northern New Mexico, where she lives. Making art in conversation with Oyster mushrooms, dye plants, soil organisms and sheep is Carol’s way of participating in the creative vortex of the planet’s vitality and intelligence.

Suzanne Anker is a visual artist and theorist working at the intersection of art and the biological sciences. Her practice investigates the ways in which nature is being altered in the 21st century. Chairing SVA’s Fine Arts Department in NYC since 2005, She continues to interweave traditional and experimental media in her department’s Bio Art Lab. She has hosted twenty episodes of the Bio Blurb show, an Internet radio program originally on WPS1 Art Radio, in collaboration with MoMA in NYC.

About FEMeeting

This LASER is a public presentation that marks the end of the FEMeeting 2023 Taos. As a highly international community, the program of FEMeeting 2023 “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” includes 70 presentations by 81 speakers from 9 countries as well as other activities to encourage communication among its participants.

FEMeeting is driven by the desire to develop and promote a more direct collaboration at the level of artistic and research projects between all individuals who identify with the female gender. The conference aims to disseminate projects being undertaken by women worldwide and, as a result, to contribute to the development of art-science research methodologies and to the growth of cooperation strategies that can increase knowledge sharing and bring communities closer. To facilitate personal networking, most of the program is organized as closed sessions, only for the conference speakers, but the program also includes this public session that aims to encourage participation and attendance among all individuals interested in the topics of the conference independently of their gender.

Launched in 2017, the idea behind the conference “FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science and Technology” was orchestrated by the Portuguese artist Marta de Menezes and scholar Dalila Honorato.

FEMeeting website https://femeeting.com

This LASER is presented by FEMeeting and SciArt Santa Fe, with support from The National Endowment for the Arts, the University of New Mexico (UNM) College of Fine Arts, and Fulbright.

For more information about SciArt Santa Fe and our LASER series, visit Sciartsantafe.org