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Author Ginsberg, Alexandra Daisy, author.

Title Synthetic aesthetics : investigating synthetic biology's designs on nature / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Jane Calvert, Pablo Schyfter, Alistar Elfick, and Drew Endy, with additional contributors.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 349 pages) : color illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Synthetic biology : what it is and why it matters / Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy -- Countering the engineering mindset : the conflict of art and synthetic biology / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr -- Design as the machines come to life / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg -- Nature is designed / Drew Endy -- There is no design in nature / Pablo Schyfter -- Design evolution / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg -- Bio logic / David Benjamin and Fernan Federici -- Scale and metaphor / Pablo Schyfter -- Living among living things / Will Carey [and others] -- Constrained creativity : an engineer's perspective / Alistair Elfick -- Biogenic timestamp : exploring the rearrangement of matter through synthetic biology and art / Oron Catts and Hideo Iwasaki -- Time as critique / Jane Calvert -- Synthetic sound from synthetic biology / Chris Chafe and Mariana Leguia -- Abstraction and representation / Pablo Schyfter -- Living machines / Sheref Mansy and Sascha Pohflepp -- Evolution vs. design? / Jane Calvert -- Inside out body / Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas -- Transgressing biological boundaries / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
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Subject Art and biology.
Art and biology.
Synthetic biology.
Synthetic biology.
Synthetic Biology -- trends.
Art.
Biotechnology -- trends.
Esthetics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Calvert, Jane, author.
Schyfter, Pablo, author.
Elfick, Alistair, author.
Endy, Andrew D., author.
Other Form: Print version: Ginsberg, Alexandra Daisy, author. Synthetic aesthetics 9780262019996 (DLC) 2013013618 (OCoLC)835887515
ISBN 9780262321600 (electronic book)
0262321602 (electronic book)
9780262019996
026201999X