Dr. Carol Gigliotti (http://www.carolgiglotti.net), a writer, educator, and artist, is an Associate Professor of Dynamic Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University (ECU) in Vancouver, B.C., Canada where she teaches Environmental Ethics, Critical Animal Studies and Digital Interactive Media courses. She has been involved in new media since 1989 and has been writing about ethics and technologies for the last nineteen years.
Her edited book, Leonardo's Choice: Genetic technologies and animals, published by the Ethics/Philosophy Area of Springer in hardcover in 2009, is now available in paperback. The book iincludes 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. This book grew out of the January 2006 special issue of the Springer_Verlag journal AI and Society, "Genetic Technologies and Animals." The essay "Leonardo's Choice:genetic technologies and animals" has been reprinted in Cognition, Communication, and Interaction: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Interactive Technology. Ed. Satinder P. Gill. Springer-Verlag 2008. Other published essays include: “Sustaining Creativity and the Loss of the Wild” In M. Alexenberg's (ed.) Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture (2008), Bristol, UK: Intellect Press/Chicago: University of Chicago Press; and Gigliotti, C. (2005) “Artificial Life and the Lives of the Non-human” Parachute 119: 06. A revised version of this essay was published in the Spring 2009 Issue of Antennae: the Journal of Nature in VIsual Culture along with an interview with Gigliotti. Her most recent essay, Heartburn: Indigestion, Contention and Aanimals in Contemproary Art can be found in ISSUE 15, Autumn 2010 of Antennae: the Journal of Nature in VIsual Culture and is available here.
Recent presentations include:
"Placing the Human: Roundtable with Phiip Beesley, Char Davies, Carol Gigliotti, and Jeff Malpas" Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. March 26, 2010.
"The Lives of Animals in Art" at Minding Animals: The 2009 International Academic & Community Conference on Animals & Society.Newcastle, Australia. July 2009.
"Critical Animal Studies" at Minding Animals: The 2009 International Academic & Community Conference on Animals & Society.Newcastle, Australia. July 2009.
"The Reconfiguration of Animals: Ethical issues in database aesthetics" on the Database Aesthetics PANEL at College Art Association 2009 Conference, Los Angeles, Feb. 2009.
She is on the Editorial Board 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 with either media or animal studies and often reviews for university and commercial presses. In the Spring of 2008, she was the Recipient of the John and Betty Gray Residency at The Sitka Center for the Arts.
Since 2009 she has been on the Senior Advisory board of the online journal Antennae: the Journal of Nature in VIsual Culture.
Gigliotti may be reached at carolgigliotti at me dot com
Her CV in pdf form is available here.
