Dr. WhiteFeather Hunter is an internationally recognized Canadian artist and researcher, and SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts & Technology. She holds a PhD through SymbioticA International Centre of Excellence in Biological Art, The University of Western Australia, and an MFA in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University, Montréal. Her doctoral thesis, The Witch in the Lab Coat (short title) was a TechnoFeminist negotiation of science biocultures by using ‘taboo’ reproductive body fluids such as menstrual blood and stem cells in novel tissue engineering protocols; this included investigating magic and witchcraft as performed resistance to medicalized control over women’s bodies. This laboratory research and artistic creation stemmed from her master’s thesis project, Biomateria; Biotextile Craft, an innovative and award-winning body of work which innovated miniature handwoven human and horsehair scaffolds for tissue engineering. A recent project, Sentient Clit—The Pussification of Biotech was an exploration of 3D-bioprinted clitorises embedded with menstrual stem cells she differentiated to neuronal types, to produce synthetic clitorises that might respond intelligently to stimuli. The project was awarded an Ars Electronica 2024 S+T+ARTS Prize jury nomination. Her most recent project, IMARA—Interstitial Machine for Aggregate Reparative Anatomies, is a hacked 3D bioprinter for producing interspecies organs. WhiteFeather has exhibited and presented work across the globe, recently at Grace Exhibition Space for International Performance Art (NYC), the Museum of Witchcraft and Magic (UK), Cultivamos Cultura (PT), Artengine (CA), SomoS Berlin (DE), and Southern Forest Arts (AU). She is hosted at numerous prestigious international biolabs, such as the Braid MSC Discovery and Innovation Lab (SFU), the Gulbenkian Institute of Molecular Medicine, uLisboa, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, and DZNE German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases. Dr. Hunter is regularly invited to present her work at high profile international festivals, conferences, and residencies; recent keynote addresses include for the Future Humanities Institute at University College Cork (IE), at the Atlantic Anthropological Workshop in Dingle (IE), and for the Artistic Research Translation in Science (ARTS) Society at the University of Calgary (CA). Her academic writing and artworks are published in peer-reviewed journals and books globally, with a forthcoming monograph in Palgrave’s BioArt Series.

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