GMU:BioArt WS16/Introduction to Course and the biolab

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Syllabus

  • Introduction to Course and the biolab
  • Microbiota and Symbiosis (fermentation)
  • top-down, bottom-up and emergence (Isolating bacteria)
  • Mycelium and networks
  • Biodiversity and Environment
  • Living and non-living (crystal growing)
  • Living machines (plasmodium)
  • Life programming
  • Cloning and Transgenic organisms
  • Immortality (bacteria, jellyfish)

literature overview

  • Robert Mitchell: Bioart an the Vitality of Media ISBN 978-0295990088
  • William Myers: Bio Design, ISBN 978-0-87070-952-4
  • 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,
  • Landwehr, Kuni: Home Made Bio Electronic Arts: Do-it yourself: Microscopes, Sensors, Sonifications ISBN 978-3856165673 (Introduction)

organisations

biolabs

intro to lab

contexts (art, design, and science)

cooking medium and inoculating microbiota