| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Palgrave BioArt |
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Palgrave BioArt
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1 The Semi-living -- Early Years of Tissue Culture -- Alexis Carrel and Revivalism -- The Laboratory -- Honor Bridget Fell and the Tissue Culture Point of View -- Tissue Culture and the Popular Imagination -- Dr Joseph P. Vacanti and Tissue Engineering -- TE for Non-biomedical Purposes -- Cells Plasticity in Vitro -- References -- 2 Information, Genohype and DNA Chauvinism -- Pig Wings, 2000-2001 -- DNA Chauvinism -- Crude Matter, 2012 -- Mechanism of Life - After Stéphane Leduc, 2013 -- References |
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3 Who Cares? Outsourcing Labour to Incubators -- The Story of the Incubators -- The Semi-living Worry Dolls (2000) -- Vessels of Care & Control - The Compostcubator (2016 - Onwards) -- The Invisibility of the Modern Incubator -- References -- 4 The Reverse Ontology of Sentience: The Technologically Mediated Victimless Utopia -- References -- 5 Taxonomies, Categorizations and Queer Life -- NoArk, 2007 -- Neolife -- Biomess, 2018 -- Sea Star Comets -- Sponges -- Hard Corals -- Leopard Slugs -- Seahorse -- West Australian Jewel Beetle -- Ruffs -- Crossing Kingdoms, 2018 -- References |
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6 Concluding Notes: Secular Vitalism -- Historical Ponderings -- The Poverty of Language -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Tissues, Cultures, Art narrates the twenty-five years of collaborative and sometimes provocative artistic practice and scholarly thought of Catts & Zurr, who pioneered the use of regenerative biology techniques to create Semi-Living art using living cells, tissues, and technological surrogate bodies. Through hands-on work in biological laboratories, the authors researched concepts such as partial-life and DNA-Chauvinism and explored the fantasies of living in a technologically mediated victimless utopia. The authors delve into lifes resistance to reductionism, systemisation and control, asking whether there is something unique to life without the need to resort to metaphysics. Their practices reach beyond the confines of art and are often cited as precursors to the cellular agriculture and biofabrication industries. Through a hybrid of personal reflections, poetics, and anecdotes with a more rigorous, scholarly approach all illustrated with artworks - the authors present a critical view on the use of life as a raw material for human manipulation |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Art, Modern -- 21st century.
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Biology in art.
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Biotechnology in art.
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Art, Modern
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Biology in art
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Biotechnology in art
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Catts, Oron, author
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| ISBN |
9783031258879 |
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3031258878 |
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