Publications

Cohen, H. & Kratz, S. Becomings: Rhizome Methodologies and the Body-In-Process. 2009.Australasian Journal of ArtsHealth, 1, pp. 90-105

Ganapathy, S., Kratz, S., Chen, Q., Hellingwerf, K.J., de Groot, H.J., Rothschild, K.J. and de Grip, W.J., 2019, Redshifted and Near‐infrared Active Analog Pigments Based upon Archaerhodopsin‐3. Photochemistry and Photobiology, 95(4), pp.959-968.

Kratz, S., 2022. Posthuman Genetic Legacies: Rethinking (Im) mortality and the Limits of Reproduction Through Hybrid Bioart Practice. Widok. Teorie i Praktyki Kultury Wizualnej, (32), pp.1-41.

Kratz, S.J., 2013. Artscience in practice: Exploring the critical and creative potentials of transdisciplinary art and science practice using a methodological and conceptual framework of creative becoming (Doctoral dissertation, Queensland University of Technology).

Kratz, S.J., 2010. Transformative transgressions: biotechnology, personal experience, ethics and art. Second Nature: International journal of creative media, 2(1), pp.222-251.

Selected Conference Papers:

Hart, B., Kratz, S. and Horsley, A., 2017, June. An autonomous writing machine. In Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Creativity and Cognition (pp. 469-47).

Juliff, T., Keating, M., Norrie, H., Veness, Z. and Kratz, S., 2017. Praxis now: Frayling’s' Research in Art and Design'24 years on. In ACUADS Conference 2017 Conference proceedings , Australian National University School of Art & Design

MacDonald, A., Wise, K., Holmstrom, N.G., Brown, N., Polley, J., Tregloan, K., Kratz, S., Hart, B. and Fountain, W., 2018. STEAM Horizons: Navigating contentions and possibilities for interdisciplinary pedagogy and learning in Tasmania. In AARE Conference 2018. University of Sydney.

Kratz, S., Gowers, A. and Nielsen, J., 2018. Creating and governing new monsters: Why we need engagements across art, science and law. In Quite Frankly, It’s a Monster’s Conference 2019. University of Western Australia.

Kratz, S.J., Keating, M. and Wise, K., 2016. Strategic directions in practice-led research: Rethinking research models in the creative arts. In ACUADS 2016 Conference proceedings. Australian Council of University Art & Design Schools.

Kratz, S.J., 2012. Transformative Encounters and Uncanny Intimacies: Biotechnology and Contemporary Art–A Practitioner's Approach and Perspective. Somatechnics, 2 (2), pp.263-283

Leong, J. and Kratz, S., 2017, CRITICAL CONNECTIONS: Connecting Art, Design and STEM, Interalia Magazine, November, https://www.interaliamag.org/articles/dr-svenja-kratz-jacina-leong-critical-connections-connecting-art-design-stem/

Kratz, S. and Hart, B., 2024, Conversations on Art & Science: Meet Your Digital Doppelganger, World Science Festival Brisbane, March 17, https://www.worldsciencefestival.com.au/event-program/brisbane/conversations-on-art-science-meet-your-digital-doppelganger

Kratz, S., 2021, Posthuman Genetic Legacies, Experimenta Social # 40:
Working with Life, 28th April: https://experimenta.org/event/experimenta-social-40/

Kratz, S. and Gowers, A., 2017, Art & Science: Towards a meaningful and mutual exchange, NiTRO + Creative Matters, Edition 8, July, https://creativematters.edu.au/2017-7-6-art-science-towards-a-meaningful-and-mutual-exchange/

Kratz, S., 2017. The Absence of Alice: Art and science from absence to immortality. The Rise of Bio-Society Conference, Mt Gambier, Australia

Kratz, S., 2013, Communicating Art, Communicating Science, WAAG Netherlands, Hortus Botanicus, October 7, https://waag.org/en/event/communicating-art-communicating-science/

ABC Radio, 2021, Handball: Svenja Kratz, September 12, ABC Radio Hobart, https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/hobart-sundays/handball-svenja-kratz/13538384

Brand, S. 2004, What’s Next?, Realtime Arts, April-May, https://www.realtimearts.net/article/60/7412

Debatty, R. and Kratz, S., 2014, Life, tissue culture and ethical ambiguities: An interview with Svenja Kratz, We Make Money, Not Art, December 20, https://we-make-money-not-art.com/svenja_kratz/

Kerspern, B. and Kratz, S., 2015, Insights: Svenja Kratz, Medium, November 20, https://medium.com/design-friction/insights-svenja-kratz-b7297a389ce5

Polianskaya, A. 2019. Science Gallery exhibition asks: to what extent should we alter our bodies?, Design Week, February, https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/11-17-february-2019/science-gallery-exhibition-asks-to-what-extent-should-we-alter-our-bodies/

Kratz, S. 2014, Culture Champion, Arts Queensland,https://www.arts.qld.gov.au/arts-queensland/aq-blog/arts-and-biotechnology

Smith, B., 2014, DNA of a dead 11-year-old girl becomes a work of art, November 27, https://www.smh.com.au/technology/dna-of-a-dead-11yearold-girl-becomes-a-work-of-art-20141127-11uwt6.html

Stephens, A., 2020, From the Black Plague to HIV, artists evoke grace in face of death, Sydney Morning Herald, March 27, https://www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/from-the-black-plague-to-hiv-artists-evoke-grace-in-face-of-death-20200323-p54cx1.html

Robertson, S. and Kratz, S., 2014, Curators in Space: Interview with Svenja Kratz, Flying Arts Alliance, December 3, https://curatorsinspace.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/svenja-kratz-interview/

Selected academic citations of creative work:

Catts, O. and Zurr, I., 2014. Growing for different ends. The International Journal of Biochemistry & Cell Biology, 56, pp.20-29.

Dixon, D., Straughan, E. and Hawkins, H., 2011. When artists enter the laboratory. Science, 331(6019), p. 86

Heffernan, T., 2014. Breaking the cycle: Life, death and resurrection in biotechnology.Artlink, 34 (3), pp.56-57.

Leth-Espensen, P., 2013. Art, Hermeneutics, and Technoscience.(Doctoral dissertation, Aarhus University).

Radomska, M., 2020. Deterritorialising death: Queerfeminist biophilosophy and ecologies of the non/living in contemporary art. Australian Feminist Studies, 35(104), pp.116-137.

Radomska, M., Mehrabi, T. and Lykke, N., 2020. Queer death studies: Death, dying and mourning from a queerfeminist perspective.Australian Feminist Studies, 35(104), pp.81-100.

Stephens, E., 2012. Anatomical imag (inari)es: The cultural impact of medical imaging technologies. Somatechnics, 2(2), pp.159-170.

Stephens, E., 2020. Speculative biology: precarious life in art and science resurrection projects. Continuum, 34(6), pp.870-886.

Stephens, E., Sellberg, K. and Donaghy, P., 2020. Precarious futures: cultural studies in pandemic times. Continuum, 34(6), pp.807-815.

Stephens, E., 2016. Making monsters: bio-engineering and visual arts practice. In Corporeality and Culture (pp. 53-66). Routledge.

Thornton, G., 2021. Symbiotic Sculpture: Making Art for a Posthuman Present (Doctoral dissertation, La Trobe University).