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 […]

WHITEFEATHER has a new co-authored paper with Assistant Professor, Jiabao Li, entitled Sythetic Sentience: From Cup to Dish, published on the ACM Digital Library. Read the full open access paper here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3686169.3686201 Abstract: We investigate the potential of lab-grown clitorises created by 3D bioprinting stem cells derived from menstrual fluid. Our approach challenges male-dominated narratives […]

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 […]

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 has co-authored a chapter for the book, Art and Biotechnology – Viral Culture from CRISPR to COVID edited by Clare Nettleton and Louise Mackenzie (Bloomsbury). WhiteFeather’s chapter, “COVID-19 and the Embodiment of Disruption: Assemblages of Agency and the Turducken of Chaos” is co-authored with Molly McKinney, RN. The book is available on the Bloomsbury […]

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/

WhiteFeather’s project with collaborator Jiabao Li, titled Sentient Clit: The Pussification of Biotech has been awarded a jury nomination for the prestigious Ars Electronica S+T+ARTS Prize of the European Commission, honoring Innovation in Technology, Industry and Society stimulated by the Arts. About the project: We investigate the potential of producing lab-grown clitorises by isolating stem […]

WhiteFeather’s scholarly article, Phenomenology of Menstruation: (Bio)artworks Within a Feminist Occult is included in the forthcoming issue of Passepartout, Journal of Art Theory and History at Aarhus University. This issue, entitled Blod, will launch May 31, 2024 in Aarhus and will be published online shortly thereafter. More information to come, visit the Passepartout website here: […]

Tim Deussen photo.

Photo: Tim Deussen

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 […]

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 was selected from over 800 applicants to be the upcoming artist-in-residence at the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic in Boscastle (Cornwall), UK, funded by a Friends of the Museum Travel Bursary, a Graduate Women WA (Western Australia) Joyce Riley Bursary, a UWA Postgraduate Student Association Fieldwork/Data Collection Award, and a UWA Graduate Research School […]

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 […]

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’s most recent authored publication as part of her PhD research, entitled, Mooncalf ‘Unclean Meat’, has been published in the latest edition of Technoetic Arts Journal, in the Taboo Transgression Transcendence special edition. Abstract: The calamitous warnings of climate science have been latched onto by a growing roster of biotech start-up companies who propose to […]

WhiteFeather’s collaborative work in developing a longevity treatment for cellulosic biomaterials with art conservator, Courtney Books, was recently published in an essay by Books as part of the conference proceedings book, Living Matter: The Preservation of Biological Materials in Contemporary Art (Kendra Roth, Rachel Rivenc, eds.). The essay also features WhiteFeather’s collaborative work with biodesigner, […]

“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 […]

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 […]