Ionat Zurr

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Dr. Ionat Zurr (born 1970) is an Australian artist, researcher and curator. [1] She is also a lecturer for the University of Western Australia (UWA), [2] and has been a visiting tutor in Design Interactions for the Royal College of Art. [3] Zurr, together with Oron Catts, founded the Tissue Culture & Art Project in 1996, they were both guest artists at CERN in 2019. [4] Zurr worked for more than 20 years at SymbioticA, UWA's Centre of Excellence in Biological Arts, [5] and is a pioneer of making art with living, engineered tissue. [6]

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Zurr is the Chair of the Fine Arts discipline at UWA's School of Design, and instigated the Master of Science (Biological Arts), an interdisciplinary program involving both art and science. [7]

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References

  1. Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth (2012). "Ionat Zur: Biography". Design and Art Australia. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  2. "Ionat Zurr". UWA Profiles and Research Repository. University of Western Australia. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  3. "Working with Life: Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr". Royal College of Art. 25 January 2016. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
  4. "Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts". Arts at CERN. CERN. 27 September 2019. Archived from the original on 1 November 2019. Retrieved 7 March 2020.
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  7. Rossi-Linnemann, Camilla; De Martini, Giulia, eds. (2020). "Contributors". Art in science museums: towards a post-disciplinary approach. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-138-58952-0.

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