Dr. Carol Gigliotti

(http://www.carolgiglotti.net) a writer, educator, and artist, is an Associate Professor in Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University (ECU) in Vancouver, BC, Canada where she teaches Environmental Ethics, Critical Animal Studies and Interactive Media. She has been involved in new media, and writing about ethics and technology since 1990 and publishes and presents extensively.

Her edited book, Leonardo’s Choice: genetic technologies and animals from the Bioethics/Applied Philosophy Area of Springer was published in September 2009. The book includes 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 recently published essays include: “Sustaining Creativity and the Loss of the Wild” In M. Alexenberg
(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). A revised version of this essay was published in the Spring 2009 Issue of ANTENNAE along with an interview with Gigliotti. Upcoming essays include “Heartburn: Indigestion, Contention and Animals in Contemporary Art” in the September issue of ANTENNAE. She is currently working on the book Wildness and Technology: creativity and animal life concerning the clash of creative values in the practices of new technologies and the valuing of biodiversity.