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Signs of life : bio art and beyond / Eduardo Kac, editor.

Kac, Eduardo. (Added Author).

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  • ISBN: 9780262112932 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0262112930 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: x, 420 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Biotech culture -- Bioethics -- Bio art -- Biology and art history.
Subject:
Biotechnology in art.
Art and science.
Art > Moral and ethical aspects.
Science > Moral and ethical aspects.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.

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Emily Carr University of Art + Design N72 .B56 S54 2007 (Text) 30217847 Book Volume hold Available -

Series Foreword ix
Acknowledgments and Credits xi
Introduction: Art that Looks You in the Eye: Hybrids, Clones, Mutants, Synthetics, and Transgenics 1(28)
Eduardo Kac
I. Biotech Culture
29(64)
Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies
31(12)
Eugene Thacker
Ornamental Biotechnology and Parergonal Aesthetics
43(14)
Gunalan Nadarajan
Embodying the Chimera: Biotechnology and Subjectivity
57(12)
Bernard Andrieu
The Transgenic Involution
69(14)
Richard Doyle
Life Art
83(10)
Louis Bec
II. Bioethics
93(68)
Bioethics and the Posthumanist Imperative
95(20)
Cary Wolfe
Blood and Bioethics in the Biotechnology Age
115(10)
Dorothy Nelkin
Art as a Public Policy Medium
125(26)
Lori B. Andrews
Liberating Life from Itself: Bioethics and Aesthetics of Animality
151(10)
Dominique Lestel
III. Bio Art
161(152)
Life Transformation---Art Mutation
163(22)
Eduardo Kac
Why I Breed Plants
185(14)
George Gessert
Chlorophyll Apparitions
199(12)
Heather Ackroyd
Dan Harvey
Good and Evil on the Long Voyage
211(4)
Paul Perry
Art: in vivo and in vitro
215(16)
Marta de Menezes
Semi-Living Art
231(18)
Oron Catts
Ionat Zurr
Cases for Genetic Art
249(18)
Joe Davis
Vivo Arts
267(10)
Adam Zaretsky
The Relative Velocity Inscription Device
277(8)
Paul Vanouse
Proteins
285(6)
Regina Trindade
Skin Culture
291(4)
Marion Laval-Jeantet
Benoit Mangin
Repro Duction
295(6)
OneTree
301(2)
Natalie Jeremijenko
The Art of Unnatural Selection
303(6)
Brandon Ballengee
Genomic Portrait
309(4)
Marc Quinn
IV. Biology and Art History
313(82)
The Origins of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Biocentric Constructivism
315(30)
Oliver A. I. Botar
The Growth of Microorganisms on Paper
345(2)
Alexander Fleming
Edward Steichen's 1936 Exhibition of Delphinium Blooms: An Art of Flower Breeding
347(24)
Ronald J. Gedrim
On Science
371(2)
Vilem Flusser
From Genetic Perspective to Biohistory: The Ambiguities of Looking Down, Across, and Beyond
373(14)
Barbara Maria Stafford
Art and Biotechnology
387(8)
Yves Michaud
Contributors 395(6)
Index 401