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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
Biological Art, MSc, The University of Western Australia
Biotechnology, BSc (Hons), Murdoch University
External positions
Casual Tutor, Internet Studies, MCASI, Curtin University of Technology
27 Jul 2019 → …Keywords
- Bioart
- Candida albicans
- queer ecologies
- interspecies aesthetics
- queer theory
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Research Output 2010 2019
The unsettling eros of contact zones: queering evolution in the CandidaHomo ecology
Bates, T., 2018, (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
File
Ecology
Contact Zone
Eros
Queerness
Evolutionary Theory
Mess
Frankenstein
Artwork
Queerness
Ecology
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
Human Culture
Art
Ecology
Microbiology
Human Body
The queer temporality of CandidaHomo biotechnocultures
Bates, T., 14 May 2019, In : Australian Feminist Studies. 34, 99, p. 25-45 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
intimacy
kinship
evolutionary theory
ecology
community
About SymbioticA
Bates, T., 2018, (Unpublished).Research output: Contribution to conference › Conference presentation/ephemera
Artist
Health
Safety
Scientific Knowledge
Curiosity
Activities 2013 2019
Gender Diversity in Music and Arts (Event)
Ionat Zurr (Programme Committee Chair), Tarsh Bates (Programme Committee Chair)16 Jul 2019 → 19 Jul 2019
Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Peer review panel
On being a microbioartist: Research at the intersections of art, microbiology and more-than human culture
Tarsh Bates (Speaker)19 Jul 2019
Activity: Service and engagement › Public lecture, debate or seminar
Taboo‐Transgression‐Transcendence in Art & Science (Event)
Tarsh Bates (Member)2018
Activity: Memberships › Membership of committee
Quite Frankly
Tarsh Bates (Member of programme committee), Ionat Zurr (Member of programme committee), Oron Catts (Organiser), Christopher Cobilis (Organiser)2018
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Challenging categories
Tarsh Bates (Organiser), Ionat Zurr (Organiser), Oron Catts (Organiser)2018
Activity: Conferences and workshops › Participation in workshop, seminar, course