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
What is Bioart?
Bioart
- 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
Bioart
- Robert Mitchell: Bioart an the Vitality of Media ISBN 978-0295990088
- 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
- Ine Gevers: Yes Naturally ISBN 978-9462080638
- 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
- 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
- Landwehr, Kuni: Home Made Bio Electronic Arts: Do-it yourself: Microscopes, Sensors, Sonifications ISBN 978-3856165673
Eco Art
- Himmelsbach, Volkart, Malina, Ohlenschläger: Ecomedia ISBN 978-3775720489
- Linda Weintraub: To Life!: Eco Art in Pursuit of a Sustainable Planet ISBN 978-0520273610
Biology, Technology and Culture
- Margulis, Asikainen, Krumbein: Chimeras and Consciousness - Evolution of the Sensory Self ISBN 978-0262515832
- Hugh Raffles: Insectopedia ISBN 978-1400096961 recommended chapters: Generosity (the Happy Times), Heads and How to Use Them, The Sound of Global Warming
- George Church & Ed Regis: Regenesis ISBN 978-0465021758
- Nick Lane: Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the meaning of life ISBN 978-0192804815
- Andrew Pickering: The Cybernetic Brain ISBN 978-0226667904
Diagrams
- Rosenberg, Grafton: Cartographies of Time ISBN 978-1616890582
- Leeb: Materialität der Diagramme ISBN 978-3942214018
Artists
additional artists:
- Edward Steichen
- Critical Art Ensemble
- Brandon Ballengée
- Anna Dumitriu
- Hideo Iwasaki
- Verena Friedrich
- Joe Davis
- Paul Vanouse
- Tuur Van Balen & Revital Cohen
- Theresa Schubert
- Michiko Nitta
- Zibigniew Oksiuta Art & Science Bio inspired Architecture.
- Magnus Larsson Architecture and Synthetic Biology
- Jalia Essaidi
- Klaus Fritze