
Join artist Kathy High and art historian Jennifer Johung for a conversation connecting art and biotechnology while considering the ethics of manipulating life.
The biotechnology industry views life as a raw material—one to transform and engineer, or to simulate. This conversation will explore High’s art practice, which focuses on understanding the complexity and uncertainty of life and the closely held values that determine where we draw (and how we cross) the lines between the living, the dead, and the inanimate.
This dialogue is part of the Arts, Technology and Social Change series, a micro-residency program sponsored by Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme.
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Left to right: Jennifer Johung and Kathy High.
More about the Arts, Technology and Social Change series
The Arts, Technology and Social Change series is an initiative conceived by Ohio State’s Department of History of Art, Department of Art, Wexner Center for the Arts, and the Translational Data Analytics Institute. The residency program is a cross-department platform that involves public engagement on campus and around Columbus to explore questions on technology and social change in our contemporary moment.
More about the speakers
Kathy High
Jennifer Johung
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SUPPORT FOR THIS INITIATIVE PROVIDED BY
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
LEARNING & PUBLIC PRACTICE PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
CoverMyMeds
Huntington
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio Arts Council
The Ohio State University Office of Outreach & Engagement
Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation
Martha Holden Jennings Foundation
SUPPORT FOR LEARNING & PUBLIC PRACTICE RESIDENCIES PROVIDED BY
Mike and Paige Crane
WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Lois S. and H. Roy Chope Fund of The Columbus Foundation
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Louise Lambert Braver
Kathy High and Jennifer Johung in Conversation