| Description |
x, 420 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Leonardo
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Leonardo (Series) (Cambridge, Mass.)
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| Note |
Originally published: 2007. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Art of unnatural selection / Brandon Ballengée -- Genomic portrait / Marc Quinn -- IV. Biology and art history. Origins of László Moholy-Nagy's biocentric constructivism / Oliver A.I. Botar -- 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. |
| Subject |
Biotechnology in art.
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Biotechnology in art. |
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Art and science.
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Art and science. |
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Art -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Art -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
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Art. |
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Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Science -- Moral and ethical aspects. |
| Added Author |
Kac, Eduardo.
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| ISBN |
9780262112932 hardcover alkaline paper |
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0262112930 hardcover alkaline paper |
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