Thursday 15 September 2005
(3:30 pm) artist talk: Koen Vanmechelen

Friday 16 September 2005
(6 pm) opening kloone4000, (7 pm) official opening speech by Roel Arkesteijn (curator GEM Museum for Contemporary Art, The Hague), speech by Miriam Van Rijsingen (founder The Arts & Genomics Centre), lecture by Koen Vanmechelen (Cosmopolitan Chicken), debate with Martijntje Smits, Koen Vanmechelen, Arie Altena, Theo Paijmans, Taco Stolk, Paul Groot, Miriam van Rijsingen, Bas Defize, moderated by Marjan Slob

Saturday 17 September 2005
(4 pm) lecture by dr. ir. Martijntje Smits (Exorcising monsters), lecture by dr. Tsjalling Swierstra (beauty of imperfection), debate with Martijntje Smits, Tsjalling Swierstra, Dirk Jan Jager, Aad Tibben, moderated by Raoul Teulings

Tuesday 20 September 2005
(6 - 7:30 pm) Geneyous-Kloone discussion with Floris Foijer (Neth. Cancer Institute), Terry Vrijenhoek (genomics researcher, Geneyous), Alex Verkade (co founder/partner of De Praktijk), Remko Gouw (moleculair genetics & bio-informatics), Anje Roosjen, Mieke Smits en Rune Peitersen

Wednesday 21 September 2005
(6- 8 pm) Geneyous-Kloone discussion with Roos de Jonge (neuromusculair research), Remko Gouw, Mieke Smits, Rune Peitersen, Naan Rijks, Anje Roosjen, Roé Cerpac, Jasper den Hertog en Albert van der Schoot

Thursday 22 September 2005
(5 pm) Tinca Polderman (biological psychology, twins research VU, Amsterdam (conversation with Anje Roosjen and Mieke Smits)

Friday 23 September 2005
(7 pm) lecture by dr. Tjeerd Tijmstra (In this culture of information more and more risks are being calculated and analysed in correlative research. Everybody who wants to have a baby can be tested for the gene for cystic fibrosis, preventing future pain and limiting health costs. Are we entitled to DNA diagnosis or does it stimulate commercial exploitation based on fear?), lecture by dr. Bas Defize (For medical applications it is interesting to let stem cells develop into differentiated cells that can be returned to the body. In the process of therapeutic cloning the nucleus is taken out of an activated egg cell. This empty egg cell can reprogram a different, even adult nucleus into an embryonic nucleus. This new embryo can be used to obtain stem cells. When the entire embryo is returned into a uterus this could become a human clone in theory. Reproductive human cloning does not serve any purpose and burdens the clone with the inhuman role of being the same as his predecessor) debate with Tjeerd Tijmstra, Bas Defize, Wiel Hoekstra, Ruud Kaulingfreks, moderated by Marjan Slob

Saturday 24 September 2005
(4 pm) lecture by prof. dr. Jan Hoeijmakers (the duplication of DNA during cell division is a very precise process but occasionally errors are made. DNA is also damaged by external influences, causing cancer for example. There are rare congenital diseases where the defect is on the gene that is responsible for the repairs, causing a premature aging process. We could reduce the cause of the damage, by adding substances in nutrition that catch the oxygen radicals before they do damage), lecture by Taco Stolk (Genetic design as education program), debate with Jan Hoeijmakers, Rob van Hattum, Taco Stolk, Daan Roovers, moderated by Danielle Arets

Wednesday 28 September 2005
(3 -5 pm) Laboratory tour Hubrecht Lab. Utrecht by Bas Defize

Saturday 1 October 2005
lecture by prof. dr. Johan Braeckman (Humanity has the right to improve itself. We are not a final product, we are still full of errors and in some ways it is a stupid design. But we are dealing with a very powerful technology, one we are not quite ready for, it is medically unsafe. The arguments against cloning are in part irrational and based on fear and clichés), lecture by dr. Cor van der Weele (analyses of the metaphors in the ethics of transhumanism)

Monday 3 October 2005
6 - 7:30 pm Geneyous-Kloone discussion with Hinco Gierman, Anje Roosjen, Alex Verkade and Terry Vrijenhoek

Tuesday 4 October 2005
(1 - 4 pm) DNA workshop by Adam Zaretsky How to Extract DNA from Anything Living in the Laboratory or in your Kitchen, a Compare and Contrast Laboratory and Hobbyist Workshop
6 - 7:30 pm Geneyous-Kloone discussion with Remko Gouw, Anje Roosjen, Alex Verkade, Erika Biddle, Jon and Terry Vrijenhoek (in english)

Wednesday 5 October 2005
(6-7 pm) artist talk: Erika Biddle about the Critical Art Ensemble and Steve Kurtz's trial for bogus charges of bioterrorism in particular, in the larger context of artistic repression.

Friday 7 October 2005
(7 pm) lecture by prof. dr. José van Dijck and screening of film Gattaca, discussion afterwards with José van Dijck (about cloning and science-fiction in film and literature), Rob van Hattum and Martijntje Smits

Saturday 8 October 2005
(4 pm) lecture by prof. dr. Marli Huijer (Time and prenatal diagnosis), lecture by Bas Haring (Nature consists of the things that are not affected by mankind. Nature creates whimsical, odd and inefficient products. The products of thoughts are often unambiguous and therefore more boring than we realise. It is very hard to have a new, original thought. If man becomes a product of thoughts, he will become more boring. Nature will shift - it is an illusion that we will control the making of man entirely. The new nature will reside in this uncontrollable portion), debate with Marli Huijer, Bas Haring, Toos Arends, Bart Gremmen, Robert Zwijnenberg, moderated by Raoul Teulings

Monday 10 October 2005
1 - 3 pm kloone-de Praktijk DNA workshop for schoolchildren (primary school de Notenkraker)

Tuesday 11 October 2005
(4 - 5 pm) Laboratory tour Erasmus Medical Centre Rotterdam by Jan Hoeijmakers and Koos Jaspers
(8 - 9:30 pm) Geneyous-Kloone discussion with Remko Gouw, Floris Foijer, Terry Vrijenhoek, Alex Verkade, Kay Grosskop, Ingrid Leeuwangh, Olga Ast and Anje Roosjen

Wednesday 12 October 2005
(6 - 7:30 pm) Geneyous-Kloone discussion with special presentation of Art meets Science and Spirituality in a changing Ecomomy by Louwrien Wijers (panel meetings with the american artist Robert Rauschenberg, the Dalai Lama, spiritual leader of Tibet, the‘implicate order’ scientist David Bohm and the russian economist Stanislav Menshikov, during a series of meetings over five days: a mental sculpture by artist Louwrien Wijers (1990 Stedelijk museum amsterdam, 1996 Kopenhagen) (with Floris Foijer, Hinco Gierman, Naan Rijks, Louwrien Wijers, Anje Roosjen, Emiko Kato, Olga Ast, Hannie van den Bergh, Martijn Gijsberti Hodenpijl, Filia den Hollander, Jan van den Berg and Jennifer Kanary)

Thursday 13 October 2005
(9:30 -11:30 am) Kloone-de Praktijk DNA workshop for schoolchildren (primary school de Notenkraker)

Friday 14 October 2005
presentation of participating kloone4000 artists (Jennifer Kanary, Chrystl Rijkeboer, Bas van Vlijmen, Olga Ast, Lorene Bourguignon and Hanneke van Velzen)

Saturday 15 October 2005
(4 pm) closing debate: is an approach possible between art and genomics? opening speech by Paul Slettenhaar, city councellor Art, debate with Jan C. Molenaar, Frank Grosveld, Taco Stolk, Raoul Teulings, moderated by Robert Zwijnenberg

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