About BEAK

Dr. Pilar is an interdisciplinary artist and scholar who creates performances, digital and electronic installations, workshops, and experimental public talks utilizing various technologies.  

Pilar's projects have traveled widely to spaces that include SIGGRAPH; Vancouver's LIVE BIENNALE; Gothenberg's Museum of World Culture; MUAC in Mexico City; Toronto's  OCAD and McLuhan Center for Culture and Technology; San Francisco's MOMA, Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena (BAN5), and SFAI; the Oakland Museum of California,  MOCA in Los Angeles; Grace Performance Space and the Kitchen in New York; Galeria Studio Cerrillo in San Cristobal de las  Casas, and many more.

She has a PhD from UC Davis, studied Intermedia Arts at Mills College, is a 2025-2028 HUMAN (Humanities Understanding of the Machine-Assisted Nexus) Fellow, board member emeritus of WEAD, and teaches Critical Theory at CCA. More at https://www.prabapilar.com

Dr. Zaretsky is a Wet-Lab Art Practitioner mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human  Relations, Body Performance and Gastronomy. 

Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs based on topics such as: foreign species invasion (pure/impure), radical food science (edible/inedible), jazz  bioinformatics (code/flesh), tissue culture (undead/semi-alive), transgenic design issues (traits/desires), interactive ethology  (person/machine/non-human) and physiology (performance/stress). 

His art  practice focuses on an array of legal, ethical, social and libidinal  implications of biotechnological materials and methods with a focus on  transgenic humans.

Zaretsky has a PhD from RPI, and  is an External Partner, Visiting Professor Department of Audio and Visual Arts - Didactics of Bioart. More at
https://avarts.ionio.gr/mares/en/teaching-staff/ 

Ciclón L.T. Olivares is a  transmedia storyteller and scholar, and the founder of Sin Kabeza  Productions (Headless Productions) and SK Symbiotic, research  platforms developed across diverse media and in communication with both  organic and inorganic life-forms within and beyond the technosphere. 

Olivares is pursuing a doctoral degree in  the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC, and is a graduate of  the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program in Critical Studies, Peking  University, and Vassar College. 

Olivares has received the Fulbright, Andrew  Mellon, Jacob K. Javits, Jane Dealy Wirsig, McGuire, Hemispheric  Institute, and NYU Provost Fellowship for Academic Diversity.  

Olivares teaches at Pratt Institute, more at
https://www.pratt.edu/people/ciclon-olivares/
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