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
Texts
- Robert Mitchell: Simondon, Bioart and the Milieus of Biotechnology
- Bruno Latour: Give me a laboratory and I will Raise the World
- Donna Harraway: When species meet (recommended:"chicken", p. 278)
- Vilèm Flusser: On Science
- George Gessert: A history of Art Involving DNA
- Joe Davis: Artistic Molecules
- Joe Davis: Romance, Supercodes, and the Milky Way DNA
- Bernadette Bensaude Vincent: Between the possible and the actual: Philosophical perspectives on the design of synthetic organisms
- Ursula Damm et al.: Are artists and engineers inventing the culture of tomorrow?
- Paul Vanouse: Counter Laboratories, Inverted Suspects and Latent Signs
Books
- Robert Mitchell: Bioart an the Vitality of Media ISBN 978-0295990088
- Margulis, Asikainen, Krumbein: Chimeras and Consciousness - Evolution of the Sensory Self ISBN 978-0262515832
- Ingeborg Reichle: Art in the Age of Technoscience: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art ISBN 978-3211781609
- 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
- Ine Gevers: Yes Naturally ISBN 978-9462080638
- Andrew Pickering: The Cybernetic Brain ISBN 978-0226667904
- Ginsberg, Calvert, Schyfter, Elfick, Endy: Synthetic Aesthetics ISBN 978-0262019996 recommended chapters: The Biogenetic Timestamp: Exploring the Rearrangement of Matter trought Synthetic Biology and Art by Catts and Iwasaki, Time as Critique by Jane Calvert, Evolution or Design by Jane Calvert,
- 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: Catts & Zurr: Countering the Engineering Mindset: The Conflict of Art and Synthetic Biology
- Himmelsbach, Volkart, Malina, Ohlenschläger: Ecomedia ISBN 978-3775720489
- Landwehr, Kuni: Home Made Bio Electronic Arts: Do-it yourself: Microscopes, Sensors, Sonifications ISBN 978-3856165673
Artists
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