BERGIT ARENDS
Following the lunch break which provided all guests and delegates with the opportunity to network, browse through a curated selection of recent science and art publications and through the exhibitions at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Bergit Arends chaired the science and art panel discussion featuring artists and scientists exhibiting in Designer Bodies, as well as involving some of the Symposium guests. Bergit commented about the ideas and phenomena leading us towards the posthuman condition before introducing each of the panelists and moderating the subsequent discussion.

Bergit Arends has been based part-time at the Wellcome Trust since 1999 where she manages the sciart programme. She recently co-edited the publication Experiment: conversations in art and science. She also instigated and ran the visual arts programme at the National Institute for Medical Research (1997 to 2000), where she worked, among others, with Marc Atkins, Zarina Bhimji, Jochen Gerz and Lucy Orta.

As an associate of apm (art project management) she co-ordinated the public art programme Inshore Sites in Medway in 1998/99. Her academic interests are focused on recent German history. She initiated and managed the first international symposium on WWII air-raid bunker architecture and urbanism in Emden, Germany, in 1999. She graduated with an MA in Visual Arts Administration: Curating and Commissioning Contemporary Art from the Royal Collage of Art, London in 1997.

 

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