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 […]

WhiteFeather Hunter and Jiabao Li will present their paper (and project) entitled, Sentient Clit: From Cup to Dish at the upcoming Halfway to the Future symposium in Santa Cruz, California from 21-23 October. Halfway to the Future (HTTF) is a symposium that explores the past, present, and future of themes driving key research in HCI […]

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WhiteFeather will present her PhD recent and activity, Bioart Coven; Surveying and Creating at the Intersection of Contemporary Witchcraft and Biotechnologies, at the upcoming Seventeenth International Conference on the Arts in Society, in Zaragoza, ES/ online (blended format) from 4-6 July. The conference’s special focus is: History/Histories: From the Limits of Representation to the Boundaries […]

WhiteFeather will be co-convening a panel for the upcoming IMPACT conference (The University of Sydney), from 8-10 December, 2021. The 2021 AAANZ Conference is being convened by The Power Institute and the University of Sydney Department of Art History. Feminist Collaborations Across Arts and Bioscience Technologies WhiteFeather Hunter (University of Western Australia) & Molly McKinney […]

WhiteFeather will be teaching a five-week online course, Bioart Coven, beginning February 10, 2021, through the School of Machines, Making and Make Believe (Berlin, DE). For detailed information on the course and to register, visit the School of Machines website, here. The course is now FULL. Subscribe to the School of Machines website for upcoming […]

WhiteFeather recently participated in a workshop on Gendered Experiences of Technology with German artist, Cornelia Sollfrank. The workshop, hosted by Studio XX, included an introduction to the feminist methodology of Consciousness Raising, including experiential knowledge sharing via lived/ acquired expertise amongst the women present. UNLOCK: GENDERED EXPERIENCES OF TECHNOLOGY Tuesday, April 4th 2017, from 6PM […]

WhiteFeather recently participated in an intensive field research/ workshop/ creation project with Jamie Allen of Shift Register. “SHIFT REGISTER is a research project investigating how human media, technological and infrastructural activities have marked the earth… The earth has been transformed into a ‘planetary laboratory’ subject to further study, control and comprehension. Knowledge of these interactions […]

WhiteFeather worked closely with Nurit Bar-Shai (co-founder of Genspace, NYC) at the Speculative Life Lab at Concordia University, to help Nurit deliver a workshop to graduate students on bacterial painting and biopigment printing, on February 13 and 15, 2017. More information about the workshop and about Nurit Bar-Shai on the Speculative Life Research Cluster website, […]

WhiteFeather recently participated in this workshop with Martin Howse, hosted by the Speculative Life Cluster at the Milieux Institute @ Concordia. “Let the waters above the heavens fall, and the earth will yield its fruit. Circulation explores the material bases of contemporary media, intervening within cycles of earth-extraction-earth-return in which the minerals which form the […]

Printed Circuit Boards WhiteFeather participated in this workshop, given by Pipo Pierre-Louis & Grégory Perrin at Eastern Bloc on 13 August 2016. This 9-hour workshop covered different methods of homemade fabrication of printed circuit boards, including practicing making printed circuit boards with readily available tools, such as copper board, and ferric chloride etching solution with […]

WhiteFeather participated in a DIY bio CRISPR CAS-9 workshop hosted by BricoBio and Fluxmedia. The project undertaken with several BricoBio/Fluxmedia members was to use the CRISPR kit to transform E. coli to be resistant to two types of antibiotics. The kit was assembled by and acquired from Josiah Zayner. The Protocol/ Experiment undertaken at BricoBio […]

BricoBio is a DIY Bio group in Montreal, with a biosafety level 1 lab located in Helios Makerspace. WhiteFeather is an incorporating member of BricoBio, and recently participated in a plasmid transformation (with E. coli) workshop led by Kevin Chen. The two-part workshop included mixing LB with agar and an antibiotic, as well as cultivating […]

Throughout the summer of 2015, prominent Jacquard weaver, Louise Lemieux-Bérubé was invited to teach a special workshop series on Jacquard colour tapestry to the members of the Weaving Data Research Group, facilitated by Kelly Thompson as part of her FRQSC-funded project, Material Codes, Ephemeral Traces. WhiteFeather worked as both a Research Assistant to Kelly Thompson […]

WhiteFeather participated in a workshop with Sissel Tolaas, hosted by Hexagram-Concordia, on working with smell molecules. Smell is Information, Purpose, Communication Workshop with Sissel Tolaas Friday, January 31, 2014 2 – 4pm In this two hour workshop, each participant will be provided with a set of abstract smell molecules to define. Through using the […]