[artinfo] ARISTARKHOVA: Artificial Wombs and Male Pregnancy

[Oliver Grau]

DEPARTMENT FOR IMAGE SCIENCE presents:

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Public Lecture
Prof. Dr. IRINA ARISTARKHOVA  (Penn State University, USA and
Danube University Gender Professor, A)

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=>   ARTIFICIAL WOMBS AND MALE PREGNANCY :
The Search For Hospitable Spaces in Art and Science.  <=

Within an interdisciplinary area of art, gender and technology, new
bio-technologies enjoy high popularity. Aesthetic and scientific relation
between gender and new reproductive technologies has been explored by
feminist scholarship through critique of desire for self-generation /
parthenogenesis in philosophy, art, architecture and science. Without
denying the importance of the concept of control, this lecture will offer
aesthetic and conceptual feminist analysis of specific artistic and
scientific examples of artificial wombs and male pregnancy as a search for
welcoming spaces to host a fetus by man and / or machine.

www.malepregnancy.com
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May 20th 2008
5 pm
DANUBE UNIVERSITY - SR 1.5

http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw

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Contakt: Wendy Coones, M.Ed.
Tel: +43 (0)2732 893-2543
Wendy.Coones at donau-uni.ac.at
http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dbw