TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kac,Eduardo
TI  - Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond
T2  - Leonardo Series
SN  - 9780262276597
AV  - N72.B56S54 2007 
U1  - 700/.105 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Biotechnology in art
KW  - Art and science
KW  - Art -- Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Science -- Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- Series Foreword -- Introduction Art that Looks You in the Eye: Hybrids, Clones, Mutants, Synthetics, and Transgenics -- I Biotech Culture -- 1 Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies -- 2 Ornamental Biotechnology and Parergonal Aesthetics -- 3 Embodying the Chimera: Biotechnology and Subjectivity -- 4 The Transgenic Involution -- 5 Life Art -- II Bioethics -- 6 Bioethics and the Posthumanist Imperative -- 7 Blood and Bioethics in the Biotechnology Age -- 8 Art as a Public Policy Medium -- 9 Liberating Life from Itself: Bioethics and Aesthetics of Animality -- III Bio Art -- 10 Life Transformation-Art Mutation -- 11 Why I Breed Plants -- 12 Chlorophyll Apparitions -- 13 Good and Evil on the Long Voyage -- 14 Art: in vivo and in vitro -- 15 Semi-Living Art -- 16 Cases for Genetic Art -- 17 VivoArts -- 18 The Relative Velocity Inscription Device -- 19 Proteins -- 20 Skin Culture -- 21 REPRO DUCTION -- 22 OneTree -- 23 The Art of Unnatural Selection -- 24 Genomic Portrait -- IV Biology and Art History -- 25 The Origins of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Biocentric Constructivism -- 26 The Growth of Microorganisms on Paper -- 27 Edward Steichen's 1936 Exhibition of Delphinium Blooms: An Art of Flower Breeding -- 28 On Science -- 29 From Genetic Perspective to Biohistory: The Ambiguities of Looking Down, Across, and Beyond -- 30 Art and Biotechnology -- Contributors -- Index
N2  - The theory and practice of bio art, a new art form that uses the materials and processes of biotechnology, with examples of work by such prominent artists as Eduardo Kac and Marc Quinn
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