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Bio Art - Altered Realities (Hardcover)
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Bio Art - Altered Realities (Hardcover)
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In our age of fast-paced biotechnological progress and humans'
increasing impact on the environment the autonomy of 'nature' has
come into question. We can now engineer living things, blur the
biological distinctions between humans and animals, and influence
parts of our world that we cannot see - such as DNA and genes.
These discoveries and far-reaching developments have created
fertile ground for artistic expression. This book reveals the ways
in which the work of bio artists offers new meanings for our lives
in the wake of scientific discovery, as well as new frameworks for
describing them. Four thematic chapters cover the key areas in
which biotechnology has had an impact on today's world, including
ecology, biomedicine, designer genomes and evolutionary theory,
profiling the work of 60 artists, collectives and organizations
from countries including France, Germany, the US, the Netherlands,
Mexico and Japan. Interviews with eight bio artists and
technologists, including Arne Hendriks, Mark Dion, Boo Chapple,
Heather Dewey-Hagborg and Raphael Kim, provide a deeper insight
into the ideas and methods of this new breed of creative
practitioner.
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