GMU:Bioart Introduction

Projects in Bio Art

This is an introductory course that focuses on making art with living matter. It centers on bio art practices and looks towards strategies found in nature to inform art making techniques. The program emphasizes experimentation in sensing and interactions between humans and non-humans.

Links

• biomediale
• hackteria
• bioart links collected in 2010

Texts

• Robert Mitchell: Simondon, Bioart and the Milieus of Biotechnology
• Bruno Latour: Give me a laboratory and I will Raise the World
• Donna Harraway: Chicken (p. 278)
• Ursula Damm et al.: Are artists and engineers inventing the culture of tomorrow?

Books

• Robert Mitchell: Bioart an the Vitality of Media ISBN 978-0295990088
• George Gessert: Green Light ISBN 978-0262014144
• Suzanne Anker: Visual Culture and Bioscience ISBN 978-1890761127
• Hugh Raffles: Insectopedia ISBN 978-1400096961 recommended chapters: Generosity (the Happy Times), Heads and How to Use Them, The Sound of Global Warming
• Andrew Pickering: The Cybernetic Brain ISBN 978-0226667904
• Ine Gevers: Yes Naturally ISBN 978-9462080638
• Eugene Thacker: Biomedia ISBN 978-0816643530
• Lynn Margulis & Dorion Sagan: Acquiring Genomes ISBN 978-0465043927
• George Church & Ed Regis: Regenesis ISBN 978-0465021758
• Nick Lane: Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life ISBN 978-0192804815
• Bureaud, Malina, Whiteley: Meta-Life: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, ALife and the Arts [1] recommended chapters: Countering the Engineering Mindset: The Conflict of Art and Synthetic Biology

Artists

• a long list with many artists...

additional artists:

• Edward Steichen