Kac, Eduardo, ed.:  Signs of Life – Bio Art and Beyond

Introduction

Art that Looks You in the Eye: Hybrids, Clones, Mutants, Synthetics and Transgenics

Eduardo Kac

I Biotech Culture

1 Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies

Eugene Thacker

2 Ornamental Biotechnology and Parergonal Aesthetics

Gunalan Nadarajan

3 Embodying the Chimera: Biotechnology and Subjectivity

Bernard Andrieu

4 The Transgenic Involution

Richard Doyle

5 Life Art

Louis Bec

II Bioethics

6 Bioethics and the Posthumanist Imperative

Cary Wolfe

7 Blood and Bioethics in the Biotechnology Age

Dorothy Netkin

8 Art as a Public Policy Medium

Lori B. Andrews

9 Liberating Life from Itself: Bioethics and the Aesthetics of Animality

Dominique Lestel

III Bio Art

10 Life Transformation – Art Mutation

Eduardo Kac

11 Why I Breed Plants

George Gessert

12 Chlorophyll Apparitions

Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey

13 Good and Evil on the Long Voyage

Paul Perry

14 Art: in vivo and in vitro

Marta de Menzes

15 Semi-Living Art

Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr

16 Cases for Genetic Art

Joe Davis

17 VivoArts

Adam Zaretsky

18 The Relative Velocity Inscription Device

Paul Vanouse

19 Proteins

Regina Trinidade

20 Skin Culture

Object-Oriented Art (Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin)

21 REPRO DUCTION

davidkremers

22 OneTree

Natalie Jeremijenko

23 The Art of Unnatural Selection

Brandon Ballengée

24 Genomic Portrait

Marc Quinn

IV Biology and Art History

25 The Origins of László Moholy-Nagy’s Biocentric Constructivism

Oliver A. I. Botar

26 The Growth of Microorganisms on Paper

Alexander Fleming

27 Edward Streichen’s 1936 Exhibition of Delphinium Blooms: An Art of Flower Breeding

Ronald J. Gedrim

28 On Science

Vilém Flusser

29 From Genetic Perspective to Biohistory: The Ambiguities of Looking Down, Across, and Beyond

Barbara Maria Staffort

30 Art and Biotechnology

Yves Michaud