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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
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Bates, T., 2018, (Unpublished)Research output: Thesis › Doctoral Thesis
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Online Crossing Kingdom: as part of the Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology exhibition at the Center for Bioethics and the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Zurr, I., Catts, O. & Bates, T., 1 Apr 2021Research output: Non-traditional research output › Exhibition › peer-review
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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
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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Environmental Humanities (Journal)
Tarsh Bates (Reviewer)
2018Activity: Editorial work or peer review of publications › Publication peer review
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Challenging categories
Tarsh Bates (Organiser), Ionat Zurr (Organiser) & Oron Catts (Organiser)
22 Oct 2018Activity: Conferences and workshops › Participation in workshop, seminar or course
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University of Edinburgh
Tarsh Bates (Visiting researcher)
2018Activity: External visits › Visiting an external academic institution