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Title Signs of life : bio art and beyond / Eduardo Kac, editor
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (x, 420 pages) : illustrations
Series Leonardo
Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Contents Introduction : Art that looks you in the eye : hybrids, clones, mutants, synthetics, and transgenics / Eduardo Kac -- Part I. Biotech culture -- Open source DNA and bioinformatic bodies / Eugene Thacker -- Ornamental biotechnology and parergonal aesthetics / Gunalan Nadarajan -- Embodying the chimera : biotechnology and subjectivity / Bernard Andrieu -- The transgenic involution / Richard Doyle -- Life art / Louis Bec -- Part II. Bioethics -- Bioethics and the posthumanist imperative / Cary Wolfe -- Blood and bioethics in the biotechnology age / Dorothy Nelkin -- Art as a public policy medium / Lori B. Andrews -- Liberating life from itself : bioethics and aesthetics of animality / Dominique Lestel -- Part III. Bio art -- Life transformation, art mutation / Eduardo Kac -- Why I breed plants / George Gessert -- Chlorophyll apparitions / Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey -- Good and evil on the long voyage / Paul Perry -- Art : in vivo and in vitro / Marta de Menezes -- Semi-living art / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr -- Cases for genetic art / Joe Davis -- VivoArts / Adam Zaretsky -- The relative velocity inscription device / Paul Vanouse -- Proteins / Regina Trindade -- Skin culture / Object-Orient Art (Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin) -- Reproduction / davidkremers -- OneTree / Natalie Jeremijenko -- The art of unnatural selection / Brandon Ballengée -- Genomic portrait / Marc Quinn -- Part IV. Biology and art history -- The origins of László Moholy-Nagy's biocentric constructivism / Oliver A.I. Botar -- The growth of microorganisms on paper / Alexander Fleming -- Edward Steichen's 1936 exhibition of delphinium blooms : an art of flower breeding / Ronald J. Gedrim -- On science / Vilém Flusser -- From genetic perspective to biohistory : the ambiguities of looking down, across, and beyond / Barbara Maria Stafford -- Art and biotechnology / Yves Michaud
Summary "Bio art is a new art form that has emerged from the cultural impact and increasing accessibility of contemporary biotechnology. Signs of Life is the first book to focus exclusively on art that uses biotechnology as its medium, defining and discussing the theoretical and historical implications of bio art and offering examples of work by prominent artists."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Biotechnology in art.
Art and science.
Art -- Moral and ethical aspects
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
ART -- Reference.
ART -- Performance.
Art and science
Art -- Moral and ethical aspects
Biotechnology in art
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects
Biotechnologie
Kunst
Ethik
Biotechnology in art.
Art and science.
Art -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Art et sciences.
Art et technologie.
Art -- 20e siècle -- Déontologie.
Form Electronic book
Author Kac, Eduardo.
LC no. 2006035537
ISBN 9780262276597
0262276593
9781429483957
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9781282098756
9786612098758
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0262311615
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