Jo Wei is a curator and researcher, and is also thefounder of the Pan Bio-art Studio(PBS).Her recentresearch interests include Bio Art, EcoArt, and thecrossover of art/science/technology, etc.

Among the list of her many curations are A NewTheory on Species (2022),Bamboo as Method(2021), Quasi-Nature: Bio Art, Borderline, Laboratory(2019), Ars Electronica in Shenzhen (2019). Sheis also an International Adviser for the EuropeanCommission's STARTS Prize,and the memberof the International Program Committee ofSEA (2020,2023),as well as an editorial boardmember of Annualof Contemporary Art ofChina. She has curated several transdisciplinaryforums/workshops on science and technologyand humanities.including "The History of ASTWorkshop"(CAFA),and"The Editable Future.the TechnicalPhilosophical, Legal and ArtisticDimensions of Gene Editing"(CAFA Art Museum)and"Cybernetics, Art and Digital Culture"(UCCA),the"BioArt Workshop"(Institute of Genetics and Development, Chinese Academy of Sciences), etcShe was the winner of Hyundai Blue Prize 2018and Het Nieuwe Instituut Research Funding, etc.

From Bio Art to Eco Art in the era of rematerialization

In this course, I will present the artistic spectrum fromBio Art to Eco Art, both theoretically and practicallyWhen these two terms were coined, and how didthey develop later, and their crossover after thenew millennium. The early Bio Art followed the veinof digital art, combined with genetic engineeringbioinformatics and other fields, regarded life amachine composed of DNA code, and emphasized theimportance of high-tech and is both Christian-culturecentered and anthropocentrism. After the intensiveand global spread, it gradually owns the features suchas technodiversity, and non-anthropocentrism, whichcall this trend as "Pan Bio Art"

I will introduce the exhibition Quasi-Nature as thecase study, and some important shows held inthe international institutes recently, as well as mypractice on symposium/lecture curating, teachingtranslating focusing on Bio Art. Eco Art will beintroduced briefly in this course, will talk about theexhibition Critical Zones, and Reset Modernity (curatedby Bruno Latour in 2020, 2016), since it may start thediscussion of the new genre of Eco Art.