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Zaretsky Adam
Art Coordinator at the Node for Hybrid Arts.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7475-1435
Adam Zaretsky, Ph.D., is a former researcher at MIT's Department of Biology and an experimental bioartist with over a decade of teaching experience. His art practice critically explores the legal, ethical, social, and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods, with a particular focus on transgenic humans. Known for his engaging, hands-on bioart labs, Zaretsky creates dynamic spaces for bioart production.
He has led the VivoArts experimental bioart class at institutions including San Francisco State University (SFSU), SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia (UWA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), The Arts and Genomic Centre (TAGC) at Leiden University, and the Waag Society. He is the Head of Research at Nadlinc (since 2016) and a Research Consultant at BEAK (since 2022) in New York. Since 2024, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Department of Audio & Visual Arts at the Ionian University, where he also serves as the Creative Director of TTTlabs and TTTfellows in the "Rewilding Cultures" project (2022-2026), part of the Feral Lab Network, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
More:
Transgenic Humans as Bioart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRkqh2DFLY
On the Role of Artists in the Human Germline: https://vimeo.com/73838256
Superplants: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LrJ2UBxM6E
Selected publications:
Zaretsky, A. (2024). Anatomical Bitransversal Symmetry Axiswerks. In Contemporary Absurdities, Existential Crises, and Visual Art (pp. 32–46). Intellect.
Zaretsky, A. (2023). Transgenic Embryo Implantation: Excerpts from The Life Cycle of the Programmed Mouse, an Art and Biology Residency in an Experimental Animal Production and Research Facility. AM: Časopis za studije umetnosti i medija, (32), 103–122.
Zaretsky, A. (2022, October). Qualitative Bioinformatics: Towards a Public Understanding of Neurodegenerative Disease Research through BioArt, Data-Art, Hands-on BioMedia Workshops, Immersive Environments, and Artists in Labs. In Worldwide Congress on Genetics, Geriatrics and Neurodegenerative Diseases Research (pp. 663–664). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Zaretsky, A. (2021). Human germline gene editing is bioart: An open letter to Lulu and Nana. In Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies (pp. 450–464). Routledge.
Zaretsky, A. (2020). Developmental Biology and Transgenic Avian Embryology: Body Alterity Bioart Wet Lab. In GeNeDis 2018: Genetics and Neurodegeneration (pp. 169–176). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Zaretsky, A. (2018). Literary bioinformatics studies: The genetic code mystique. Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, 16(3), 267–276.
Zaretsky, A. (2016). Axioms on Art and Gene Action: Pathways to Expression. In The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (pp. 515–528). Routledge.
Zaretsky, A. (2016). OOPS: Object-oriented psychopathia sexualis. In Object-Oriented Feminism (pp. 145–181). University of Minnesota Press.
Zaretsky, A. (2014). Animal Enrichment and The VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd. Inflexions, 7.
Zaretsky, A. (2010). G® FRP: The GloFish® Freedom and Reconciliation Project: GMO, Let'em go. TDR: The Drama Review, 54(4), 2–3.
Zaretsky, A. (2004). Viva Vivo! Living art is dead. Leonardo, 37(1), 90–92.
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