Image: Genetic Memories 2013, Layered Silkscreen of human DNA coding on rice paper, 30 x 1000 cm

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Conference Papers and Public Lectures

 

2024

Protecting Antarctica - creating a balance between preserving and tourism - SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) Open Science Conference, Pucón Chile Aug 20

Antarctica All to Lose - SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research) Open Science Conference, Pucón Chile Aug 19

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2023

Exploring eco-art and materiality through art practice - VCA art + ecology group

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2022

More than Graphics: the use of art to engage with community on climate science – UNSW SPREE group Nov 24

An Artists Perspective on Climate Change & an Update on Climate Change, Open Lecture series U3A - Leichhardt Aug 19 & 26; Willoughby Oct 15

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2021

Interdisciplinary Integration Science and Art: the value of art in disseminating scientific information. AESS (Association of Environmental Sciences and Studies). George Washington University, Washington D.C. - June 28

Antarctica, this ain’t no mirage: the value of art in disseminating scientific information, Royal Society of NSW - Open Lecture:   Apr 7

Onsite observations and research by Lea Kannar-Lichtenberger live from the RV Falkor, SciArt Lunchbox Lecture, Feb 26

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2020

An Artists Perspective on Climate Change - Video presentation for Sydney Science Festival (in association with Culture at Work Pyrmont) 

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2019

Discussion Panel: Science and Art in Conversation - Sydney Science Festival Pyrmont. Aug 15
The March of Time: thawing, tourism, and toxins impacting the pacific. Ecoarts 3rd National Conference Wollongong University. May 26 to 28
There be Dragons: human impact on unique environments. Public Lecture Annandale
 

2018    

Propelling the Dystopian: the bucket list desire for the authentic. AAANZ Annual Conference RMIT Melbourne.

There be Dragons: exploring contemporary consumerism on the utopian ideal. Public Lecture - QCA Queensland College of Arts June 28

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2017

Beyond the Verbiage: Consumerism through tourism and its manifestations on islands and remote places.  Sustaining the Seas: Fish, oceanic spaces and the politics of caring – SEI (Sydney Environment Institute, University of Sydney) Sydney 12 Dec

Deception: Convergence of spaces brings context to time. ISACS17 Symposium on Resonance at the ZKM Institute, Karlsruhe Germany

Beyond the Idealised Mosaic: stepping outside the comfort zone. MAANZ National Symposium ‘Think beyond the square’17 to 21 August, Hobart Tasmania

On a Knife's Edge: exploring tourism industry and consumerism environmental effects through art
12th International Conference on the Arts in Society - (American University) Paris, France

 

2016

From Blue to Green: human impact in the Anthropocene using small island communities as microcosms for the study of environmental change. ASLEC – ANZ & SEI conference Global Ecologies – Local Impacts  Sydney Environment Institute 23 – 25 Nov

There be Dragons: Human impact on Lord Howe Island and its connection to Galapagos Island

- Lord Howe Island Museum April

Gagged in Dystopia: the use of plastic and non politically correct materials in the creations of art - 11th Annual Arts in Society Conference UCLA (University of California) Los Angeles

There Be Dragons: human impact on the unique environments of the Galapagos and Lord Howe Islands - Spektrum Berlin in association with Art Laboratory Berlin.

Gagging in Dystopia - ISEA Conference Hong Kong (Wednesday 3rd parallel session CMC Room 6 W3.6 - Artist / Work-in-Progress Talks - Urbanism, electromagnetism Session Chair: Laurent Gutierrez)

 

2015

Exploring the Microscopic World of Plant Communication - NMiCA (New Materialism in Contemporary Art) at SCA (Sydney College of the Arts)

There Be Dragons: human impact on the unique environments of the Galapagos and Lord Howe Island (p26) - AESS San Diego CA

Distinction with a Difference: Exploring the ecospheres of the Galapagos and Lord Howe Islands with controlled tourism  - AMOS (Australian Metrological and Oceanographic Association) Conference Brisbane

 

2014 

Metaphor for Evolution: from weed to tree and exploration of the dandelion - Affective Habitat - Humanities Conference - ANU 19-21

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2009

Hundertwasser and his Mosaics - MAANZ Symposium Biennale Brisbane