Carol Gigliotti
Dr. Carol Gigliotti (http://www.carolgiglotti.net), a writer, educator, and artist, is an Associate Professor in Interactive Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr Institute (ECI) in Vancouver, B.C., Canada where she teaches Environmental Ethics, Animal Studies and Interactive Media courses. She has been involved in new media since 1989 and publishes and presents extensively.
She has been on Sabbatical from ECI for the school year 2007-2008 working on the book Wildness and Technology: creativity and animal life.
Her edited book, Leonardo’s Choice: genetic technologies and animals which grew out of the January 2006 special issue of the Springer_Verlag journal AI and Society, “Genetic Technologies and Animals.” is forthcoming from the Bioethics/Applied Philosophy Area of Springer. The book will include her essay, “Leonardo’s choice: the ethics of artists working with genetic technologies”, and essays by philosopher Steven Best, literary theorist Susan McHugh, feminist biologist Lynda Birke and a dialogue between Gigliotti and cultural theorist, Steve Baker. Other published essays include: “Sustaining Creativity and the Loss of the Wild” In M. Alexenberg’s (ed.) Educating Artists in a Digital Age: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture (2008), Bristol, UK: Intellect Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press; Gigliotti, C. (2005) “Artificial Life and the Lives of the Non-human” Parachute 119: 06 (05).
Recent presentations include
- a keynote with Dr. Steven Best on “The Case for Critical Animal Studies” at the 6th Annual Conference for Critical Animal Studies & 2nd Annual Green Theory and Praxis Conference at Montana State University.
- “The Soul of the Brute” at Nature Matters Conference 2007: Materiality and the More-than-Human in Cultural Studies of the Environment at York University, Canada.
- “Code ≠ Informatics ≠ Animals” at SLSA ‘07:CODE: Twenty-First Annual Conference of the Society for Literature, Science and the Arts
- In April of this year, Gigliotti spoke on, “Sustaining Creativity and Losing the Wild” at The Planetary Collegium, Montreal 2007 Summit.
She is also Co-Chair of the Community Engagement Research Cluster for Vancouver’s innovative Center for Interactive Research in Sustainability, Associate Editor of the online Journal for Critical Animal Studies. She continues to be a doctoral advisor for the CAiiA-Hub in the University of Plymouth, UK, and is on a number of international Advisory boards concerned both with media and animal studies. This Spring she was the Recipient of the John and Betty Gray Residency at Sitka Center for the Arts and Ecology in Oregon.
