[ISEA2014] Workshop: Yara Guasque & Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez – THE COLLABORATIVE GARDEN

Workshop Statement

Audience: ISEA2014 Delegates, Level: Foundation

Participants are taken outside of the Dubai ZU campus, they research its specimens and reopen the collaborative networks involved in the park accessing the exchange of correspondence among botanists and naturalists, examine the origin of specimens, whether they are genetically modified or not, learn about contractors hired for the construction and maintenance of the park, and then “plant “an inscription of the technoscience network, whether in digital or analog media, or plant the species themselves.

  • Yara Guasque Independent artist and researcher and retired associate professor at the Postgraduate Program in Visual Arts of UDESC (State University of Santa Catarina), Brazil.
  • Vanessa Ramos-Velasquez is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher from Brazil and the United States where she was a Fulbright scholar.                                transmediale.de/content/vanessa-ramos-velasquez