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Biography
Tarsh Bates is an artist/researcher interested in the aesthetics of interspecies relationships and the human as a queer ecology. She has a PhD in Biological Art and is an Honorary Research Fellow at SymbioticA, UWA. She has worked variously as a pizza delivery driver, a fruit and vegetable stacker, a toilet paper packer, a researcher in compost science and waste management, a honeybee ejaculator, an art gallery invigilator, a raspberry picker, a lecturer/tutor in art/science, art history, gender & technology, posthumanism, counter realism, internet studies, and popular culture, an editor, a bookkeeper, a car detailer, and a life drawing model. She is particularly enamoured with Candida albicans.
Roles and responsibilities
Honorary Research Fellow 2020-2022, SymbioticA
Current projects
Crossing Kingdoms: An artist-led experiment in cell fusion, interdisciplinary collaboration, and responsible research and innovation
This project is a collaboration with Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr, Erika Szymanski (Colorado State University), Jane Calvert (STIS, University of Edinburgh) and Elise Cachat (UK Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology)
Research interests
- microbiopolitics
- queer ecologies
- Candida albicans
- biological art
- synthetic biology
- queer and feminist theory
- interspecies aesthetics
- queer evolutionary theory
- trans* theory
- science and technology studies
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, The University of Western Australia
Award Date: 25 Mar 2019
Biological Art, MSc, The University of Western Australia
Award Date: 17 Sep 2012
Biotechnology, BSc (Hons), Murdoch University
Award Date: 8 Mar 2000
External positions
Casual Tutor, Internet Studies, MCASI, Curtin University
27 Jul 2019 → …
Research expertise keywords
- Bioart
- Candida albicans
- queer ecologies
- interspecies aesthetics
- queer theory
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Research output
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The unsettling eros of contact zones: queering evolution in the CandidaHomo ecology
Bates, T., 2018, (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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Crossing Kingdoms: How Can Art Open Up New Ways of Thinking About Science?
Szymanski, E., Bates, T., Cachat, E., Calvert, J., Catts, O., Nelson, L., Rosser, S. J., Smith, R. D. J. & Zurr, I., 3 Jul 2020, In: Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. 8, 715.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Crossing Kingdoms Experiments/works in progress
Bates, T., Catts, O. & Zurr, I., 5 Oct 2019Research output: Non-traditional research output › Exhibition
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On Being a Microbioartist: Research at the intersections of art, microbiology and more-than human culture
Bates, T., 31 May 2019.Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera › peer-review
Activities
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Gender Diversity in Music and Arts (Event)
Ionat Zurr (Programme Committee Chair) & Tarsh Bates (Programme Committee Chair)
16 Jul 2019 → 19 Jul 2019Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Peer review panel
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On being a microbioartist: Research at the intersections of art, microbiology and more-than human culture
Tarsh Bates (Speaker)
19 Jul 2019Activity: Service and engagement › Public lecture, debate or seminar
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The Unsettling Eros of Contact Zones
Tarsh Bates (Speaker)
2018Activity: Service and engagement › Public lecture, debate or seminar
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University of Edinburgh
Tarsh Bates (Visiting researcher)
2018Activity: External visits › Visiting an external academic institution
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Taboo‐Transgression‐Transcendence in Art & Science (Event)
Tarsh Bates (Member)
2018Activity: Memberships › Membership of committee