I volunteered and was the 'Technical Coordinator' for the 10th Annual Subtle Technologies Festival last Thursday, Friday and Sunday but unfortunately missed Christian Bök's presentation on the forthcoming Xenotext Experiment on Saturday due to an unwelcomed headache.
Most of the talks were related to the melding of art and health-sciences, making art from biological science or synthetically producing biological life as an artistic medium . There was a lecture from David Theodore on the architecture of children's hospitals which I thought was pretty interesting, as well as a talk by Irene Healey on the art of creating custom prosthetics.
There was also a Tissue Engineering workshop from SymbioticA (http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au) which is an art-centric division of the School of Anatomy and Human Biology at The University of Western Australia. The workshop was conducted a week prior to Sunday's unveiling of the cultured stem-cell material / tissue. The material was destroyed on-site at the close of the festival.
On a graphic design note, SymbioticA's logo which can be seen here: (SymbioticA) regretfully looks like the title for a made-for-television adaptation of a sequel to Michael Crichton's 'Andromeda Strain.
