October 27, 2026

1:00 pm – 2:30 pm ET

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INCUBATOR Art Lab: Reimagining Biotechnology as a Technology of Love

Speaker: Dr. Jennifer Willet

Abstract

In 2012 I completed an artwork called Biotechnology Is a Technology of Love... It is a simple piece.  The letters L – O – V – E were cut out of fabric and placed into petri dishes and topped up with agar. The dishes were left overnight to incubate in the lab, and when I returned the next day, they had bloomed with microbes. Perpetuating biotechnology as a technology of love is a poetic offering across species, an applied social and political act, and a feminist and post-colonial reimagining of scientific methodology, laboratory communities, and the stories we tell ourselves about the role of humans on our planet.

Bio

Dr. Jennifer Willet is an artist, researcher, performer, and curator in the international art/science community.  She is an innovator in the field of bioart.  She is a Canada Research Chair in Art, Science, and Ecology, a Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor, and the Director of INCUBATOR Art Lab, founded in 2009.  www.incubatorartlab.com @incubatorartlab @jenniferwilletbioart

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