META-LIFE: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, A-Life and the Arts
A Leonardo-MIT Press e-book edited by Annick Bureaud, Roger Malina and
Louise Whiteley.
45 articles - 694 pages
Editorial Committee: David Benqué, Annick Bureaud, Oron Catts, Matthew
Gardiner, Roger F. Malina, Nell Tenhaaf, Ruth West, Louise Whiteley
AMAZON URL: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LI69BQO
An exo-life may not come from outer space hiting the Earth riding a
meteorite but very well from the lab, designed by a scientist —unless it
is an artist— weaving biology and computing in a petri dish or a
bioreactor as a vessel.
With biotechnologies, synthetic biology and Artificial Life, artists
have opened new avenues in the artworld, going from still to autonomous
objects to living creatures, exploring the thin border between animate
and inanimate, confronting the grown, the evolved, the born and the
built, raising aesthetical but also social, political and ethical issues.
In this ground breaking collection, the editors have commission new
original essays by key figures in these fields and collected over 40
articles previously published in the Leonardo Journal that document the
ideas and practice of artists involved in these areas as well as
theoreticians and historians.
Chapters include: Between Bio, Silico and Synthetic: Of Life and Arts;
Artificial Life and the Arts; Bioart; Bio-Fiction, Design, Architecture;
DIY Biology-Biohacking (see below for full Table of Contents).
A web companion to this e-book is available at:
http://synthbioart.texashats.org
The Meta-Life e-book is a project by Leonardo/Olats (www.olats.org) as
an outcome of the European Studiolab Project (studiolabproject.eu/),
supported by the European Commission Seventh Framework Programme, in
partnership with Leonardo/ISAST (www.leonardo.info) and MIT Press and in
collaboration with ATEC at the University of Texas at Dallas
(http://utdallas.edu/atec/).
Table of Contents
Preface, Roger Malina, Meta-Life: "Aha" Moments That Drive Art-Science
Introduction, Annick Bureaud, "Art at the Future Tense"
1 - BETWEEN BIO, SILICO AND SYNTHETIC: OF LIFE AND ARTS
- Nell Tenhaaf, "“Trust Regions” for Art/Sci", 2014
- Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr, "Countering the Engineering Mindset: The
Conflict of Art and Synthetic Biology", 2014
- Amy M. Youngs, "The Fine Art of Creating Life", 2000
- Michael John Gorman, "The Sweet Smell of Synthetic Biology, GROW YOUR
OWN… Life After Nature, at Science Gallery", 2014
- Matthew Gardiner & Al. "Project Genesis: Ars Electronica", 2014
2 – ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND THE ARTS
2.1 - ALife – At the Crossroad of Art, Science and Philosophy
- Nell Tenhaaf, "As Art Is Lifelike: Evolution, Art, and the Readymade",
1998
- Edward A. Shanken, “Life as We Know It and/or Life as It Could Be:
Epistemology and the Ontology/Ontogeny of Artificial Life", 1998
- Kenneth E. Rinaldo, “Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny: Artificial
Life Art”, 1998
- Ursula Huws, “Nature, Technology and Art: The Emergence of a New
Relationship?”, 2000
- Mark Bedau, “The Scientific and Philosophical Scope of Artificial
Life”, 2002
- Alvaro Moreno, “Artificial Life and Philosophy”, 2002
2.2 - ALife – Artworks
- Sommerer Christa, Mignonneau Laurent, “Art as a Living System:
Interactive Computer Artworks”, 1999
- Ray Thomas S., "Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets", 2001
- Jane Prophet, “Sublime Ecologies and Artistic Endeavors: Artificial
Life and Interactivity in the Online Project TechnoSphere”, 1996
- Bruce Damer, “The Cyberbiological Worlds of Nerve Garden: A Test Bed
for VRML 2.0”, 1998
- Kusahara Machiko, "The Art of Creating Subjective Reality: An Analysis
of Japanese Digital Pets", 2001
- Anna Dumitriu and Blay Whitby, “Cybernetic Bacteria 2..0, 2011
- Nell Tenhaaf, "Art Embodies A-Life: The VIDA Competition", 2008
3 - BIOART
3.1 - BioArt – Creating with Living Matter
- Adam Zaretsky, "Viva Vivo! Living Art Is Dead”, 2004
- Steve Tomasula, “Genetic Art and the Aesthetics of Biology”, 2002
- George Gessert, “Bastard Flowers”, 1996
- Suzanne Anker, “Gene Culture: Molecular Metaphor in Visual Art”, 2000
3.2 - BioArt – Creations
- George Gessert, “Notes on Genetic Art”, 1993
- Eduardo Kac, “GFP Bunny”, 2003
- Marta de Menezes, “The Artificial Natural: Manipulating Butterfly Wing
Patterns for Artistic Purposes”, 2003
- Catts Oron, Zurr Ionat, "Growing Semi-Living Sculptures: The Tissue
Culture & Art Project", 2002
- Catts Oron, "Not Moving – Living", 2014
- Tagny Duff, Jill Muhling, Maria Grade Godinho and Stuart Hodgetts,
“How to Make Living Viral Tattoos”, 2011
- Patricia Noronha, “Yeast Biopaintings: Biofilms as an Artistic
Instrument”, 2011
- Polona Tratnik, “37°C: From the inside of a Being to the Thin Line of
Life”, 2005
- Zurr Ionat, "The Animation of Lab-Grown Life: Tissue Engineered Muscle
Actuator (TEMA)", 2014
- Julie Clarke, “Corporeal Mélange: Aesthetics and Ethics of
Biomaterials in Stelarc and Nina Sellars's Blender”, 2006
- Pelling Andrew E., "Re-purposing The Behaviour and Motion of Living
Cells in an Anti-Disciplinary and Curiosity-Driven Context", 2014
- Hilton Craig, "The Immortalisation of Billy Apple®: An Art-Science
Collaboration", 2014
- Tony Bellaver, “Teaching Nature How to Become Nature: The Woodland
Recovery Project”, 1998
4 - BIO — FICTION, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE
- Judy Malloy, "OK Research, OK Genetic Engineering, Bad Information:
Information Art Describes Technology, 1988
- Tran T. Kim-Trang and Karl Mihail, “Gene Genies Worldwide", 2003
- David Benqué, "Blueprints for the Unknown, Questioning the "Design" of
Life", 2014
- Dennis Dollens, “Architecture as Nature: A Biodigital Hypothesis”, 2009
- Bakke Monika, "Living (On) Dust: Around the Globe with Mineral
Particles & Microbial Hitchhikers", 2014
5 - DIY BIOLOGY - BIOHACKING
- Morgan Meyer, "Hacking Life? The Politics and Poetics of DIY Biology",
2014
- Alessandro Delfanti, "Is Do-It-Yourself Biology Being Co-Opted by
Institutions?", 2014
- Denisa Kera, "Do-It-Yourself biology (DIYbio): Return of the Folly of
Empiricism and Living Instruments", 2014
- Nurit Bar Shai, "GenSpace, New York, Art & Science at Genspace,
Brooklyn's Community Biotech Lab", 2014
- Cathal Garvey (interview by David Benqué), 2014
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