Signs of Life Bio Art and Beyond

Name: Signs of Life Bio Art and Beyond
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ISBN: 9780262513210

ISBN-10: 0262513218

ISBN-13: 9780262513210

Edition: 2007

Authors: Eduardo Kac, E. Kac

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Book details

List price: $49.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/18/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 7.06" wide x 9.00" long x 1.04" tall
Weight: 1.628
Language: English

Eduardo Kac is an internationally renowned artist who has received critical acclaim for net and bio works including Genesis, GFP Bunny, and Move 36. His work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among others.



Series Foreword


Acknowledgments and Credits


Introduction: Art that Looks You in the Eye


Hybrids, Clones, Mutants, Synthetics, and Transgenics




Biotech Culture



Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies




Ornamental Biotechnology and Parergonal Aesthetics




Embodying the Chimera


Biotechnology and Subjectivity




The Transgenic Involution




Life Art




Bioethics



Bioethics and the Posthumanist Imperative




Blood and Bioethics in the Biotechnology Age




Art as a Public Policy Medium




Liberating Life from Itself


Bioethics and Aesthetics of Animality




Bio Art



Life Transformationï¿½Art Mutation




Why I Breed Plants




Chlorophyll Apparitions




Good and Evil on the Long Voyage




Art: in vivo and in vitro




Semi-Living Art




Cases for Genetic Art




VivoArts




The Relative Velocity Inscription Device




Proteins




Skin Culture


Object-Oriented Art




Repro Duction




OneTree




The Art of Unnatural Selection




Genomic Portrait




Biology and Art History



The Origins of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Biocentric Constructivism




The Growth of Microorganisms on Paper




Edward Steichenï¿½s 1936 Exhibition of Delphinium Blooms


An Art of Flower Breeding




On Science




From Genetic Perspective to Biohistory


The Ambiguities of Looking Down, Across, and Beyond




Art and Biotechnology



Contributors


Index