Adam Zaretsky, Ph.D., a Wet-Lab Art Practitioner mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Body Performance and Gastronomy.

Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs based on topics such as: foreign species invasion (pure/impure), radical food science (edible/inedible), jazz bioinformatics (code/flesh), tissue culture (undead/semi-alive), transgenic design issues (traits/desires), interactive ethology (person/machine/non-human) and physiology (performance/stress).

A former researcher at the MIT department of biology, for the past decade Zaretsky has been teaching an experimental bioart class called VivoArts at: San Francisco State University (SFSU), SymbioticA (UWA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), University of Leiden’s The Arts and Genomic Centre (TAGC), Waag Society and Das Arts. He has also taught DIY-IGM (Do-It-Yourself Inhereted Genetic Modification of the Human Genome) at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and New York University (NYU). Zaretsky is also the headmaster of a public life arts school: VASTAL (The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd.)

His art practice focuses on an array of legal, ethical, social and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods with a focus on transgenic humans.