I am really happy that NYU’s Council for Media & Culture is hosting this conference a second time. Last year’s was inspiring.

Radars & Fences II features five researchers and artists who have been at the forefront of the battle for the democratization of the life sciences over the last decade: Beatriz da Costa, Natalie Jeremijenko, Richard Pell, Claire Pentecost, and Paul Vanouse will present their own work and discuss with the public models of interdisciplinary engagement at the beginning of the “biological century.”

Here is a synopsis of the talks: 

* Beatriz da Costa, Associate Professor of Arts, Computation, Engineering at the University of California, Irvine 
Of Pigeons, Microbes and Humans: earthly encounters in the 21st century

* Richard Pell, Assistant Professor of Art, Carnagie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Permitted Habitats and Endangered GMO’s: An introduction to the Center for PostNatural History.

* Claire Pentecost, Associate Professor, School of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago Fields of Zombies: Biotech Agriculture and the Privatization of Knowledge

Paul Vanouse, Assistant Professor of Visual Studies, University at Buffalo. 
Buffaloed and Bamboozled: DNA Hype in the Post-biological Era

* Natalie Jeremijenko, Associate Professor of Visual Arts, Department of Arts and Arts Professions, NYU 
Living together: on the shocking realities of cohabitation, the human biome, the microbial imagination and wrestling the strongest animals in the world.

RSVP if you are interested. I cannot stress to you enough how interesting this event is.