JENNIFER WILLET


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Jennifer Willet is an internationally successful artist, specializing in performance, installation, and reproductive (analogue/digital/biological) technologies. Willet's work explores notions of representation, authority, and subjectivity in relation to biological and digital technologies with an emphasis on social and political criticism.  She is PhD candidate in the Interdisciplinary Humanities program at Concordia University in Montreal.  Her dissertation is titled: (RE)embodying Biotechnology: Towards the Democratization of Biotech Through Embodied Art Practices.  Willet taught in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University from 2000-2007.  Willet currently works for the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Calgary, and will be teaching "Art and The Life Sciences: Practices and Debates" for The Art and Genomics Centre at The University of Leiden in Spring 2008.

From 2000-2007, Willet and Shawn Bailey collaborated on an innovative computational, biological, artistic, project called BIOTEKNICA. BIOTEKNICA has been exhibited in various forms including the EnterMultimediale festival, Prague (2007), FOFA Gallery, Montreal (2007), ISEA San Jose, USA (2006), Biennial Electronic Arts Perth Perth, Australia (2004), The European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück , Germany (2003), La Société des arts et technologiques (SAT) Montreal, Canada (2005), and The Forest City Gallery London, Canada (2004), amongst others.  In addition BIOTEKNICA has been presented in interviews and conferences at multiple venues across Canada, and in France, Australia, Scotland, Germany, Czech Republic, Serbia, Bulgaria, Turkey, Slovenia, Australia and Spain.  BIOTEKNICA research has been conducted during residencies at The Banff Centre for the Arts Banff, Canada (2002, 2007), and SymbioticA, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia (2004, 2006).