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Signs of life : bio art and beyond
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Signs of life : bio art and beyond

Author: Eduardo Kac
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2007.
Series: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Eduardo Kac
ISBN: 9780262112932 0262112930
OCLC Number: 74964746
Description: x, 420 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction : Art that looks you in the eye : hybrids, clones, mutants, synthetics, and transgenics / Eduardo Kac -- 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 -- 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 -- 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) -- Repro duction / davidkremers -- OneTree / Natalie Jeremijenko -- The art of unnatural selection / Brandon Ballengée -- Genomic portrait / Marc Quinn -- 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.
Series Title: Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
Responsibility: Eduardo Kac, editor.
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