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)