About

This blog is a work in progress featuring the collaborative efforts of students in COMS 642, Winter 2010 graduate seminar course (see description), held in the Communication Studies Department at Concordia University.

Contributors to the site include: Kelly Andres, Richard Baldwin, Kendra Besanger, Antonia Hernandez, Claire Kenway, Alison Loader, Vanessa Rigaux, Oliver Fortin, Brittany Wray and Tagny Duff. The site features written reflections based on weekly topics, random notes and and documentation from workshops and visiting artist presentations. The weekly topics include:

Plastic Bodies: Animating human corpses
Reinventing Bodies: Is the body obsolete in the era of the posthuman?
Manipulating life in the wet lab/studio                                                         Growing Life: Tissue culture engineering of bodies and life
Viral Contagion: Immunology across the digital and biological divide
Genohype: Genetic Engineering of organisms
Bacteria: The first genetic engineers
Animals/Interspecies/Chimeras
Organic/Digital/Hybrid ecosystems
Transformation/Deformation: Environmental Ecosystems

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Canada License.

The course is taught by Assistant Professor Tagny Duff.