The work of Marta de Menezes has been presented through lectures at universities, art institutes, research institutions, museums, as well as in international conferences in different countries.
2021
"Biology and Art” lecture for the Art, Science and Technology Studio class at Virginia Commonwealth University, USA.
“Art and Biology” seminar for workgroup an Erasmus+ consortium for developing transdisciplinary education in arts, robotics, artificial biology and sustainability.
Lecture for the PhD program in Health Sciences of the Coimbra Institute for Clinical and Biomedical Research, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra, Portugal.
“Debate sobre ciência, arte e tecnologia: A Arte é a última fronteira?” Tagus Park , Oeiras, Portugal.
“Art and Science” Lecture for the doctoral program in dance and performance @ Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Lisbon Technical University, Lisbon, Portugal
“CRISPR: tension between natural and artificial” lecture for the GE 2322 Nobel Prize: A discovery Approach to Human Greatness Course from the City University of Hong Kong.
“Scaling Sentience: The Earth, the Sky, and Outer Space” Panel moderation at ISEA2020: 26th International Symposium on Electronic Art, with Marie-Pier Boucher, Kathy High, Kira O’Reilly. Montreal, Canada.
2019
“Conversas com Arte e Ciência”, 14th December, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal.
“Identity Issues: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going” Gene Editing Seminar “Editable Future—The Technical, Ethical, Legal and Aristic Perspectives of Gene Editing“, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA Visual Art Innovation Institute, Institute of Molecular Medicine, Peking University School of Experimental Art, CAFA, CAFA Art Museum and Berggruen Research Center, Peking University, Beijing, China.
"CULTIVAMOS CULTURA”, EAST 2019 – 3rd International Conference on Education, Art, Science and Technology, at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing.
“Self and non-self: a lifetime relationship in art and science”, LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) Talks, Duddell’s, Hong Kong, China.
“Anti-Marta”, Artist Talk at Extravagant Bodies FestivalExtravagant Love, Zagreb, Croatia.
“The concept of identity and the opportunities of modern biology to artists”, part of The Seminar series " the art of today's art is a mystery”, Akbank Sanat, Istambul, Turkey.
“Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”, Consciousness Reframed Conference 2019, Universidade Catolica, Porto, Portugal.
“Self and Non-self: Loosing yourself through immortality, and rejection”, Get Together Dublin 2019, Dublin, Ireland.
“Self and Non-self: Loosing yourself through immortality, and rejection”, Fernando Pessoa University, Porto, Portugal.
“Self and Non-self: Loosing yourself through immortality, and rejection” DEBAT D'ART I CIÈNCIA, Biennal Ciència i Ciutat Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
"Identity issues: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”, Ars Electronica History Summit, Ars Electronica 2019, Linz, Austria.
“Paradoxes and obstacles in maintaining and staging alive biomedia art”, Gallery Spaces Panel VI, Ars Electronica 2019, Linz, Austria.
“Self and Non-self: Loosing yourself through immortality, and rejection”, Incubator Lab, Windsor University, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
“Nature?” The Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, New York, USA.
2018
“Psico Mix” SLSA Conference “Out of Mind”, Toronto, Canada.
“Self and Non-Self” FACTT2018 festival New York, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.
“Through identity and rejection” FACTT2018 festival Mexico City, Conference TTT Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Post-Evolution” FACTT2018 festival Lisbon, Culturgest, Lisbon, Portugal.
“Anti-Marta”, Art Enlightens Immunology exhibition, The Waag, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
“Origin of Species”, Summerhall, Edinburgh Science Festival, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
“Anti-Marta” La Touche, Bretagne, France.
“Self and Non-Self”. FEMeeting 2018 Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon, Portugal.
“Monsters”. Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
“CRISPR technology”. FACTT2017 Toronto, University of Toronto. Toronto, Canada.
“Self-Nonself: identity through rejection”, Coalesce, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, New York.
“Investigação em Arte”, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal.
2017
“The Origin of Species: a multidisciplinary project in art, science and philosophy”, at Biotechnology Havana 2017 International Meeting, Havana, Cuba.
“Shadows” FACTT festival New York, New York University, New York, USA.
“Health sciences and Art” FACTT festival Mexico City, Museu de Tepeplan, Mexico City, Mexico.
“Norma e Mutação” FACTT festival Lisbon, MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
“Arte e Ciência – um método” Festival Internacional de Marvão, Marvão, Portugal
“Arte e Biologia: um caminho pela ciência através da arte”, Facudade de Medicina da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra Portugal.
“Identity issues: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?” at the TTT conference in the Ionian University, Corfu, Greece.
“Identity issues: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”. Department of Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
“Identity issues: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”. Penny W. Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
“Identity issues: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going?”. Department of Arts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Troy, New York, USA.
Colloquio Departamental, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
2016
Estética, arte y biotecnología: resignificación de una poética, Ciclo Arte y Tecnología Fundación Telefónica, Centro de Formación y Producción de Grabado de Zacatecas, Musegruabado, Zacatecas, Mexico.
Colloquio Departamental, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras,UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
Life in the Age of the Bio-commons: identity (un)done, Visual Voice Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
Art and biology: an experimental endeavour, Drew Endy Laboratory, BioBricks Fdn. Stanford University, San Francisco, USA.
Tetraymena, the seven gendered organism, Design Fiction, Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, USA.
Art and Microbiology, Art and Design Department, University of Massachusetts, Lowell, USA.
Meaning and art, Speculative Life Laboratory at the Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture and Technology at Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Art with Microbes, AMPED, York University, Toronto, Canada.
Microbiology and Art, Video Pool, Winnipeg, Canada.
Art and science, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal.
2015
Art+ (Science || Technology), Kapelica Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Arte e Biologia: uma historia de experiências; JorTec de Biologia 2015 – FCT/ Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal.
2014
Art and the brain. 10th Symposium of the Bial Foundation; Behind and Beyond the Brain, Porto, Portugal.
Art and science, Conferência de Arte e Multimedia, Faculty of Fine Arts, Lisbon University, Lisbon, Portugal.
Art and biology, Science & Art: So different, so similar!, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Origin and Limit, Summer School, Cultivamos Cultura, S. Luis, Portugal.
Making art with biology: an experimental story – Touch Me Festival 2014 – It’s About Time! Institute of Physics – University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
IEEE Elevate: Art+ (Science || Technology) – Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, KSET, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
Making art with biology: an experimental story – Touch Me Festival 2014 – It’s About Time! Department of New Media Arts – University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia.
2013
Science & Art: So different, so similar! 2013, Course for Teachers: Comenius / Grundtvig catalogue ref: ES-2011-284-001, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Summer School 2013, Art Biology and Ecology workshop. Cultivamos Cultura Association, S. Luis, Odemira, Portugal.
eConsciousness conference, SCIENCE ART international project implemented by the Central House of Artists and Lomonosov Moscow State University.Part of the 17 INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR ART MOSCOW and the Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
ARTEFACTO – science week in 2013 Ciência Viva Centre. Biblioteca Municipal de Odemira, Odemira, Portugal.
PRIMER COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL E INTERDISCIPLINARIO: Bioartefactos. Historia, Ontología, Ética y Axiología. FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA and CENTRO DE CIENCIAS GENÓMICAS E Instituto DE BIOTECNOLOGÍA, CAMPUS CUERNAVACA, Mexico City, Mexico.
2012
Plant tissue culture workshop, Nature Lab, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.
Science & Art: So different, so similar! 2012, Course for Teachers: Comenius / Grundtvig catalogue ref: ES-2011-284-001, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Art and Biology Course, Second Term, CECL, New University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
Workshop on art and biology, in the conference “Encuentro Internacional de Arte y Nuevas Ciencias”. Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City, Mexico.
2011
Consciousness Reframed: art and consciousness in the post-biological era.Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.
MilPlanaltos, O que pode a ciência e/ou a arte fazer pela arte?. Museu de Ciência de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
Image in Science and Art. International Conference at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal.
VISCERAL: THE LIVING ART EXPERIMENT Symposium. Science Gallery Dublin, Ireland.
Emergencies2012, PhD New Media Arts program, University of Evora, Evora, Portugal.
Emergencies2012, Centro de Computação Gráfica, University of Minho, Guimarães, Portugal.
2010
Cellular Interventions in Art. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
Master Class on Bacteria works. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.
2009
Biological Artworks. Instituto de Artes, Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Nature and other adventures. IRC, University of Cataluña, Barcelona, Spain.Crossing borders:The outcome of art and biology collaborations. Master Class at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Bioart and the Lab. History of Art Department, Oxford University, Oxford, UK.
Bioart and the lab. Pavilhao do Conhecimento (Science Museum), Lisbon, Portugal.
Crossing borders:The outcome of art and biology collaborations. Master Class at Universidade de Evora, Evora, Portugal.
2008
Art and/or Biology. Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, USA.
Art and/or Biology. Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.
Biological Artworks. Foundation Lectures, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA.
2007
Art, Biology and Dali. Arte, Ciencia y Dali: hacer visible lo invisible. Conference in Madrid, Barcelona and Figueres, Spain.
Marta de Menezes / Bioartist, Master class in History of Art, University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Art, Biology and Robotics. Playful Robotic Art Conference, part of Robots at Play Festival, Odense, Denmark.
Tutorial on Art and Biology. Technarte Conference 2007, Bilbao, Spain.
BioArt, perspectives em Portugal. Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal.
Since I was here. Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
The Ectopia laboratory. Bios4 Exhibition, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Seville, Spain.
Arte e Biologia. Upgrade!Lisbon, Galeria 20 Arte Contemporânea, Portugal.
Art and Biology. University of Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands.
Ectopia – Residency programs; U3 – 5th Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Art; Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2006
Ectopia – Laboratório de Arte Experimental. Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Arte e Biologia. CENTA, Vila Velha de Rodao, Portugal.
Arte no laboratório. Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular, Porto, Portugal.
Art and Biology. ARCO’06 Experts Forum, Madrid, Spain.
2005
Art and Biology. Artmedia IX, Salerno, Italy.
Arte no laboratório. Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
Arte no laboratório. Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica, Oeiras, Portugal.
This is not transgenic art. Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal.
Onde a arte e a ciência se encontram. Congress on the History of Science. Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Monte da Caparica, Portugal.
From butterflies to brains: intersections of art and biology. Exposição Terminal, Fundição de Oeiras, Oeiras, Portugal.
Ceci n’est pas transgenic art. Edimburgh Festival of Science. Edimburgh. UK.
From butterflies to brains: intersections of art and biology. Royal Pump Rooms, Laemington Spa, UK.
From butterflies to brains: intersections of art and biology. Genetics Forum. Mansfield College, University of Oxford. UK.
Tree of Knowledge. University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
From butterflies to brains: intersections of art and biology. University of Wollongong, Sydney, Australia.
2004
From butterflies to brains: intersections of art and biology. University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia.
Artist Talk – Biennale of Electronic Arts of Perth (BEAP 2004). Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, Australia.
Bio-Arte: o encontro da Datatech com a Biotech. Artech 2004, Lisbon, Portugal.
What’s an artist doing in the lab? Structural Biology Department, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
2003
Artist Talk – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.
In conversation with curator Toby Watley. Birmingham Museum & Art Galleries, Birmingham, UK.
Art in-vivo. Max Plank Institute for Neurobiology, Munich, Germany.
The Laboratory as an Art Studio. Darwin Centre, Natural History Museum, London, UK.
Arte in vivo. Instituto Camões, Paris, France.
The Laboratory as an Art Studio. L’Art Biotech Symposium, Nantes, France.
The Laboratory as an Art Studio. Universitè Paris 6, Paris, France.
2002
Nature?. SkyArt Symposium, organized by the Center for Advanced Visual Studies of the MIT, Delphi, Greece.
The laboratory as an art studio. The Aesthetics of Care Symposium, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia.
The laboratory as an art studio. Lugar Comum, Lisbon, Portugal.
Biological Art. Portuguese Cultural Centre – Instituto Camões, Oxford, U.K
The laboratory as an art studio: collaborations between artists and scientists. Gulbenkian Science Institute, Lisbon, Portugal.
2001
Art and Biology. International Conference of Sculpture, Pittsburgh, USA.
The laboratory as an art studio. Genetics Forum, Exeter College, University of Oxford, UK.
The laboratory as an art studio. Art and Biology Lectures, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA.
The laboratory as an art studio. University College London, London, UK.
2000
Art in vivo. Departmental Seminar – Imperial College London, London, UK.
Nature?. Next-Sex Symposium – Ars Electronica 2000, Linz, Austria.
Redesigning Nature. Growing Things Meeting, New Media Institute, Banff, Canada.
