Incubator People
Dr. Jennifer Willet
Director, Incubator: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science and Ecology.Jennifer Willet is an internationally successful artist in the emerging field of BioArt. Her work explores notions of representation, the body, self and subjectivity, in relation to biotechnological and digital technologies with an emphasis on social and political criticism. She has exhibited, and presented her research extensively across Canada and internationally. From 2000-2007 Willet and Shawn Bailey collaborated on an innovative computational, biological, artistic, project called BIOTEKNICA.
She taught in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University from 2000-2007, and completed her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at the same institution. Willet also taught “BioArt: Contemporary Art and the Life Sciences” for The Art and Genomics Centre at The University of Leiden in Spring 2008, and now works as an Assistant Professor in the School of Visual Arts, at The University of Windsor. In 2009 she opened the first biological art lab in Canada, called INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Ecology at the University of Windsor.
www.jenniferwillet.com
http://bioartwindsor.blogspot.com/
http://leidenbioart.blogspot.com/jswillet (at) gmail.com
ALUMNI: Tokio Webster
Past Assistant to the Director, and Researcher, Incubator: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art, Science and Ecology.
Tokio Webster was born and raised in downtown Toronto, Ontario and is an interdisciplinary artist completing her BFA in visual arts at the University of Windsor. Her work investigates the complexities of gender identity through the mediums of printmaking, digital video and most recently Bioart. In January of 2010, Tokio began working as a research assistant to Dr. Jennifer Willet and is responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the Incubator Lab. She plans on continuing her practice and eventually completing an MFA degree in visual arts.
