Elaine Whittaker REVIEWS/PRESS

Reviews & Press

REVIEWS/PRESS/BOOKS

2024

Roberta Buiani, Viral Behaviors: Viruses & Viral Phenomena Across Science, Technology & the Arts. Book published by Bloomsbury Publishers - link here
Elaine Whittaker, Featured Artist, New Visionary Magazine, Issue #9, Winter 2024 - link here

Pandemic: Press/Articles 2020-2021
Leah Collins, What is the Role of Art in Helping Us Better Understand Coronavirus?, CBC Arts March - link here
Eva Amsen, Esty Banned Coronovirus Items, But Viruses Have Always Inspired Artists, Forbes, March - link here
Screened For (film), Labocine newsletter, Epidemics & Microfauna, April - link here
An Artist’s Look at COVID-19, Federica Lavarini, MICRON Rivista, May - link here
Canadian Embassy in China, Can Art Help Us Better Understand Coronavirus?, Weibo, May
Art in the Age of COVID-19, Vasari 21, May - link here
Pandemics: Elaine Whittaker, Alienist Magazine, Issue 8, Covidology, June - link here
Elaine Whittaker, QUARANTIMES Podcast Interview, Pelling Laboratory for Augmented Biology, July - link here
Art and Science Festival “Ekodati” will take place in Riga & online in October, Baltic News, October - link here
Studio Visit with Elaine Whittaker: Exploring the Microbes Among Us, Brice Marsters, Scientific Inquirer, November - link here
Treading Insidious Waters, in Culture of Contamination, SciArt Magazine, December 2020 - link here
Journal cover for Punctum: Semiotics of Contagion: Models & Media in a Synergistic Epidemic, Vol. 07: Issue 01- link here
Microbielle Gesten in Theatre ohne Theatre, in Enorm Magazine, June/July 2021

2021
Arthur Clay & Timothy J. Senior, editors, On Media, on Technology, On Life: Interviews with Innovators, Book published by River Publishers - link here
Book cover for State Transformations: Classes, Strategy, Socialism, Eds. G. Albo, S. Maher & A. Zuege - link here
Featured Artist, Humber Literary Review, Volume 9, Issue 1, 2021- link here

2020
Charles Hackbarth & Marc Cohen, Murky Bodies interview at Red Head Gallery, Winging It Productions - link here
Art and Science Festival “Ekodati” will take place in Riga & online in October, Baltic News, October - link here
Studio Visit with Elaine Whittaker: Exploring the Microbes Among Us, Brice Marsters, Scientific Inquirer, November - link here
Treading Insidious Waters, in Culture of Contamination, SciArt Magazine, December 2020 - link here

2019
La Fabrique du Vivant, Centre Pompidou, video - link here
Ewen Chardronnet, Centre Pompidou Looks at The Living through the Lens of Design, Makery - link here
La Fabrique du Vivant, Centre Pompidou, Agency News Press - link here
La Fabrique du Vivant, Mutations/Creations 3, Centre Pompidou, UP Magazine - link here
La Fabrique du Vivant (The Fabric of the Living), Digicult - link here

2018
Leah Collins, That's No Ordinary Maple Leaf, CBC Arts - link here 
Barry O'Sullivan, Exploring Hope and Escape Through Art, Research2Reality  -  link here  
Aniruddho Chokroborty-Hoque, Screened For by Elaine Whittaker, Art the Science blog - link here
Mariah Lamont-Lennox, Contained: Past Histories & Possible Futures of Containing Disease, The Fridge Door Gallery - link here
Contained by Elaine Whittaker, Research2Reality, video - link here

2017
Shiver, New Thoughts New Works, Issue 35, Interalia Magazine - link here
Portfolio: Elaine Whittaker, Hamilton Arts & Letters, Issue 10.1 link - here
Paris Zheng, 30sec Film Artists, Elaine Whittaker, video -  link here
K. Wong & R. Nakamura, Into the Heart of SciArt, Science Borealis blog  - PDF

2016
Julia Buntaine, Elaine Whittaker: Interview, SciArt Magazine, August PDF

2015
William Myers, Elaine Whittaker, BioArt: Altered Realities, Book publisher Thames & Hudson PDF
Karen Lipson, Islip Exhibit Explores How Science Influences Art, New York Times, PDF
Elaine Whittaker, CLOT Magazine - link here
I Caught it at The Movies, Vlak 5 Magazine
Laura Horne-Gaul, Shiver, Tussle Magazine, May - link here
I Caught it at The Movies, Changing Bodies Changing Minds, Issue 9, Interalia Magazine - link  here
Cc: me, Wreck Park Journal, Issue 00
Julia Krolik, Elaine Whittaker, Creator, Art the Science blog - link  here
BioArt Exhibition; quando la biologia incontra l’arte contemporanea, Le Scienze (Italian edition of Scientific American)
Heidy Mo, Spotlight Artist, Hye’s Musings blog, PDF
Tee, One Thought on Shiver, Spacefy blog
David Saric, Shiver, Art Toronto, PDF
Ellen Jantzen, Elaine Whittaker: Interview & Feature, Art & Science Collaborations (ASCI)  

2014
Glendon Mellow, Unsettling Blood, Symbiartic, Scientific American Network, PDF
Steven Leyden Cochrane, Weird Science: International group of Artists explores the Frontier between Avant-garde art & Cutting Edge Biotech, Winnipeg Free PressPDF
Roberta Buiani, Ecology & Sustainability in Art & Science, Techo-Ecologies 2, editors R. Smite, A. Medosch and R. Smits

2013
Lisa Kehler, Toxicity at Plug In ICA, Akimbo review, Toronto, PDF
Alison Gilmour, 3 Shows Offer New Ways of Experiencing Art, CBC News Manitoba, PDF
Lukas Thiessen, Together, Science & Art Address Our Planetary Psychopathology, The Manitoban, Winnipeg
Glendon Mellow, Ambient Plagues Unleashed, Symbiartic, Scientific American Network, PDF
Roberta Buiani, Representing the Microscopic: New Ecological Thinking in Art & ScienceArtNodes, e-journal on Art, Science & Technology, no. 13

2012
Lee Jones, Elaine Whittaker, Art & Science Journal, Issue 1, interview and feature
Roberta Buiani, Cc: me, blog, Subtle Technologies Festival, PDF

2010
Talia Dudin, (in)trepid cultures,TV interview, Art Sync
Patrick Connors, (in)trepid cultures: Exceptional Art, Newz4U.net, PDF
Matthew Purvis, (in)trepid cultures, BlogTO.com

2009
Gary Michael Dault, Tether, Globe & Mail, PDF

2007
Ruth Roach Pierson, Dreadful Visitations, MIX Magazine, 32.2, PDF

2006
Peter Goddard, Dreadful Visitations: Art Meets Mad Cow, Toronto Star, PDF
Awareness-Beyond the Traditional, Ministry of Health & Long Term Care, Pandemic Planner
N. Cormier & Sally Frater, Everyday Alchemy, Prima Materia, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton