WhiteFeather’s recent project, Trans-planted Signals: Navigating Sensory Relationships with Plants, Place, and Pathways is featured as Engaging Conversations III, on the Art Research Ecology (ARE) blog, here: https://are-research.com/ Trans-planted Signals is an ongoing research-creation video work that investigates relationships between plants, place, and pathways of adaptation across hemispheres: filmed in Maui, Hawai‘i and around Boorloo […]

WhiteFeather has been awarded a two-year Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Simon Fraser University. WhiteFeather will work with Dr. Gabriela Aceves Sepúlveda through the criticalmediaartstudio at the School of Interactive Arts + Technology beginning May 1, 2025. Read more about the criticalmediaartstudio here: https://criticalmediartstudio.com/ Visit WhiteFeather’s research profile […]

The Leonardo Graduate Abstracts Database peer review committee has selected The Witch in the Lab Coat doctoral thesis abstract by WhiteFeather Hunter to be added to their international database, with a link to the full thesis. The “LGA Peer Review committee for the 2024 – 2025 review year has decided that [the] abstract is of […]

WhiteFeather will join her community of esteemed peers this coming June 23-28, to present her current collaborative research with Jiabao Li, Pussification in Biotech. For more on the conference, see the FEMeeting website here: https://femeeting.com/

AT THE EDGE OF BEYOND: ALCHEMY, BIOPUNK & OCCULT BLOOD AT THE MUSEUM OF WITCHCRAFT AND MAGIC The Museum of Witchcraft and Magic has invited Bioart Coven founder WhiteFeather Hunter to curate its 2024 exhibition. A Canadian technofeminist transdisciplinary artist and scholar working in a multiplicity of media, which often operate without conventional notions of […]

Quarterly Archive: Reprints, Reflections, Readings has just been published by Centre for Sustainable Practices in the Arts (CSPA) Quarterly magazine. The Archive Issue not only references Issue 21 that WhiteFeather guest edited in 2018, entitled Material Futures, but also includes a new archival entry contributed by WhiteFeather, entitled Working Bibliography: Humans as Food for Microbes; […]

WhiteFeather has been invited to present her work on the topic of Cyber Witchcraft as part of the Erinni collective, for the DIGITALIVE focus programme at the Romaeuropa Festival in Rome, Italy on October 6, 2023. WhiteFeather will present her work alongside scientist and author, Laura Tripaldi; artist, Ginevra Petrozzi; and, Erinni co-founder, Arianna Forte. […]

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WhiteFeather has been invited to partake in a two-week writing residency at Ectopia and Cultivamos Cultura in Lisbon and São Luis, Portugal. During her writing retreat, WhiteFeather will continue to develop philosophical contexts around her project, The Witch in the Lab Coat, featured in the current Matter of Flux exhibition at Art Laboratory Berlin. Her […]

MATTER OF FLUX Artistic Research WhiteFeather Hunter | Lyndsey Walsh | Shu Lea Cheang with Ewen Chardronnet Dates and opening hours Opening: 26 May 2023, 8 pmRunning Time: 27 May – 9 July 2023Thu – Sun, 2 – 6 pm The group exhibition MATTER OF FLUX brings together three art projects by WhiteFeather Hunter, Lyndsey […]

The Earthkeepers Handbook includes 200 pages with 100 recipes and remedies by 100 ecoartspace artists created to Heal the Man, Heal the Land. Reviewers Kim Abeles and WhiteFeather Hunter Introduction by Patricia Watts, founder of ecoartspace Dedicated to Mierle Laderman Ukeles Cover image by Susan Hoenig Book design by Jane Crayton The Earthkeepers Handbook includes […]

SymbioticA, a keystone organization in the eco-system of the international art and science community, is under threat of imminent closure. SymbioticA is where WhiteFeather is currently undertaking PhD research, facilitated by this unique facility. Founded in 2000, by Oron Catts, Miranda Grounds, and Stuart Bunt, SymbioticA is a biological art research center at The University […]

WhiteFeather had the pleasure of being one of the first to be interviewed on the new Biotemple podcast, hosted by Bryen Lehto. Visit the Biotemple here, and to listen to the 20-minute interview where WhiteFeather and Bryen discuss tissue engineering and 3D bioprinting, along with wild visions for what else could be possible.

For the month of October, The Blue Lotus will host WhiteFeather in their online Project Space, in sharing her daily discoveries while the artist-in-residence at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle, UK. The Blue Lotus Foundation was set up in 2001 by Genie Poretzky-Lee and Jay Ramsay (1959-2019). The Foundation offers a beautiful, still and sacred space for cultural and […]

WhiteFeather will present her research project, BioArt Coven: Surveying and creating at the intersection of contemporary witchcraft and biotechnologies during the upcoming Digital Research in Humanities and Art (DRHA) Conference 2022. The conference will take place from September 4-7, 2022 in Kingston-on-Thames, Greater London, hosted by Kingston School of Art. The theme for the 26th […]

WhiteFeather is one of four Canadian women featured in a new non-fiction book for the 3rd grade, entitled, Awesome Jobs in STEAM – Canadians at Work, written by Jennifer Ladipo and published by Pearson Canada. The book is presented as part of Pearson Canada’s “Celebrate Canada” series. More information to come. Visit THESTEMGIRL website here […]

This recent publication in Techoetic Arts journal, entitled, Body shopping: Challenging convention in the donation and use of bodily materials through art practice, features an interview with WhiteFeather about her work, as part of a Taboo Transgression Transcendence conference (Vienna, AT, 2020) panel moderated by Louise MacKenzie: “The historical context of body and tissue donation […]

“Seaweed as BioArt” was a six-week research mentorship and collaboration between artists WhiteFeather Hunter and Kirstie McCallum. The project was conceived as a way to test the potential for seaweeds to improve the plasticity of common bioplastic recipes. Both artists worked with local seaweeds, Hunter using a Hawaiian sea lettuce called Limu palahalaha and MacCallum […]

On January 12, 2022 @ 5:30 UK time, WhiteFeather will present collaborative work with artist, Renee Carmichael (Buenos Aires, AR) as part of the Art Resilience Economy (ARE) Matchmaking Project. For the ARE match-making collaboration, Renee Carmichael and WhiteFeather Hunter have explored the overlaps in their practices by bringing together DIY lab practices, video performance, […]

The 2021 edition of musings: food, feminism, fermentation has just been released. WhiteFeather has two texts and images of work included in the volume: M is for Menstruation, and W is for Witchcraft. “Our latest publication, musings, is available for [PDF] download through the following link: www.bitly.com/fff-musings-2021-spreadsIt is an abecedary, or ABC book, with entries spanning […]