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Crossing cultural borders : universals in art and their biological roots
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ISBN: 145152613X 9781451526134 Year: 2011 Publisher: [S.l.] : Charles M. Butter,

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Vita aesthetica : Szenarien ästhetischer Lebendigkeit
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ISBN: 3037340754 9783037340752 Year: 2009 Publisher: Zürich Diaphanes


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After eating : metabolizing the arts
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ISBN: 0262374714 0262374722 0262545632 9780262374712 9780262374729 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press,

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"After Eating explores the emerging field of metabolic arts, practices which engage the materials and methodologies of not only food and ingestion but also digestion and metabolism"--


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Synthetic aesthetics
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ISBN: 0262321602 9780262321600 9780262019996 026201999X Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts

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Synthetic biology manipulates the stuff of life. For synthetic biologists, living matter is programmable material. In search of carbon-neutral fuels, sustainable manufacturing techniques, and innovative drugs, these researchers aim to redesign existing organisms and even construct completely novel biological entities. Some synthetic biologists see themselves as designers, inventing new products and applications. But if biology is viewed as a malleable, engineerable, designable medium, what is the role of design and how will its values apply?In this book, synthetic biologists, artists, designers, and social scientists investigate synthetic biology and design. After chapters that introduce the science and set the terms of the discussion, the book follows six boundary-crossing collaborations between artists and designers and synthetic biologists from around the world, helping us understand what it might mean to 'design nature.' These collaborations have resulted in biological computers that calculate form; speculative packaging that builds its own contents; algae that feeds on circuit boards; and a sampling of human cheeses. They raise intriguing questions about the scientific process, the delegation of creativity, our relationship to designed matter, and, the importance of critical engagement. Should these projects be considered art, design, synthetic biology, or something else altogether?Synthetic biology is driven by its potential; some of these projects are fictions, beyond the current capabilities of the technology. Yet even as fictions, they help illuminate, question, and even shape the future of the field.


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Les limites du vivant : à la lisière de l'art, de la philosophie et des sciences de la nature
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ISBN: 9782367510095 2367510091 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Bellevaux (France)]: Dehors,

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Bioart : transformations du vivant
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ISBN: 2760533751 9782760533752 9782760533769 276053376X 9782760533745 2760533743 Year: 2012 Publisher: Sainte-Foy : PRESSES DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC (PUQ),

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Les auteurs mettent sous le microscope diverses pratiques du bioart comme la culture de tissu humain, la manipulation génétique, le traitement de lʹimage et les codes ADN, lʹappropriation du matériel de la vie ainsi que le corps et les signaux électriques humains.


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75 designers pour un monde durable
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ISBN: 2732492485 9782732492483 Year: 2020 Publisher: Paris: Éditons de La Martinière,

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Il y a urgence ! Le système Terre est déréglé. Face aux enjeux cruciaux du climat et à la nécessaire transformation de nos modes de vie, 75 designers agissent. En réinventant l'idée même de la matière. En transformant des déchets improbables en beaux objets. En s'appuyant sur les savoir-faire des territoires. En apportant des solutions inédites pour améliorer la qualité de l'eau, de l'air, de l'alimentation, pour favoriser le mieux-être de tous, notamment des plus fragiles. Engagés, militants, convaincus de leur responsabilité dans un monde aux ressources menacées, certains designers invitent des bactéries ou des champignons dans leurs projets. Une révolution se dessine, bouleversant notre rapport à la nature, ouvrant la voie à des coproductions avec le vivant. Les designers réunis dans cet ouvrage affirment ainsi toute la force du design devant les défis de notre époque, tant environnementaux qu'économiques et sociaux. Ensemble, ils témoignent d'une sensibilité anticipatrice, d'un imaginaire sans limite, et d'un bel humanisme. Un monde émerge inspiré par une nouvelle ère, la nôtre, celle de l'anthropocène. Soucieux de frugalité, combattant le gaspillage, la pollution et l'exclusion sociale, ces designers créent des promesses d'avenir.


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Animals, Plants and Afterimages : The Art and Science of Representing Extinction.
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ISBN: 1800734255 1800734263 1805393324 9781800734265 Year: 2022 Publisher: Berghahn Books

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The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in art and visual culture, with a special emphasis on museums. Engaging with celebrated cases of vanished species such as the quagga and the thylacine as well as less well-known examples of animals and plants, these essays explore how representations of recent and ancient extinctions help advance scientific understanding and speak to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.


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Art as organism : biology and the evolution of the digital image
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ISBN: 1350985414 0857728075 9780857728074 9780857728944 0857728946 9781784534301 1784534307 9781350985414 Year: 2016 Publisher: London, England : London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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What if modernism had been characterised by evolving, interconnected and multi-sensory images rather than by the monolithic objects often described by its artists and theorists? In this groundbreaking book, Charissa Terranova unearths a forgotten narrative of modernism, which charts the influence that biology, General Systems Theory and cybernetics had on art in the twentieth century. From kinetic and interactive art to early computer art and installations spanning an entire city, she shows that the digital image was a rich and expansive artistic medium of modernism. This book links the emergence of the digital image to the dispersion of biocentric aesthetic philosophies developed by Bauhaus pedagogue Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, from 1920s Berlin to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the 1970s. It uncovers seminal but overlooked references to biology, the organism, feedback loops, emotions and the Gestalt, along with an intricate genealogy of related thinkers across disciplines. Terranova reinterprets major art movements such as the Bauhaus, Op Art and Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), by referencing contemporary insights from architects, embryologists, electrical engineers and computer scientists, among others. This book reveals the complex connections between visual culture, science and technology that comprise the deep history of twentieth-century art.


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Symbionts : contemporary artists and the biosphere
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ISBN: 9780262544481 0262544482 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. The MIT Press

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"Essays, conversations, selected texts, and a rich collection of thought-provoking artworks celebrate a revolution in bio art. Expertly designed by Omnivore and printed on special papers, including chlorophyll cover and crush citrus and crush cocoa pages...The texts and artworks in Symbionts provoke a necessary conversation about our species and its relation to the planet. Are we merely "mammalian weeds," as evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis put it? Or are we partners in producing and maintaining the biosphere, as she also suggested? Symbionts reflects on a recent revolution in bio art that departs from the late-1990s code-oriented experiments to embrace entanglement and symbiosis ("with-living"). Combining documentation of contemporary artworks with texts by leading thinkers, Symbionts, which accompanies an exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center, offers an expansive view of humanity's place on the planet. Color reproductions document works by international artists that respond to the revelation that planetary microbes construct and maintain our biosphere. A central essay by coeditor Caroline Jones sets their work in the context of larger discussions around symbiosis; additional essays, an edited roundtable discussion, and selected excerpts follow. Contributors explore, among other things, the resilient ecological knowledge of indigenous scholars and artists, and "biofiction," a term coined by Jones to describe the work of such theoretical biologists as Jacob von Uexküll as well as the witty parafictions of artist Anicka Yi. A playful glossary puts scientific terms in conversation with cultural ones." --

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