000			03361nam a22005053i 4500
001			EBC3338699
003			MiAaPQ
005			20240729125140.0
006			m o d |
007			cr cnu||||||||
008			240724s2007 xx o ||||0 eng d
020			_a9780262276597 _q(electronic bk.)
020			_z9780262112932
035			_a(MiAaPQ)EBC3338699
035			_a(Au-PeEL)EBL3338699
035			_a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190444
035			_a(CaONFJC)MIL209875
035			_a(OCoLC)939263689
040			_aMiAaPQ _beng _erda _epn _cMiAaPQ _dMiAaPQ
050		4	_aN72.B56S54 2007
082	0		_a700/.105
100	1		_aKac, Eduardo.
245	1	0	_aSigns of Life : _bBio Art and Beyond.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bMIT Press, _c2007.
264		4	_c©2007.
300			_a1 online resource (433 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aLeonardo Series
505	0		_aIntro -- 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.
520			_aThe 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aBiotechnology in art.
650		0	_aArt and science.
650		0	_aArt -- Moral and ethical aspects.
650		0	_aScience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aKac, Eduardo. _tSigns of Life _dCambridge : MIT Press,c2007 _z9780262112932
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aLeonardo Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3338699 _zClick to View
999			_c81607 _d81607