Bioart and the Vitality of Media (In Vivo)

Bioart and the Vitality of Media (In Vivo)

Bioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice -- now receives enormous media attention. Yet despite this attention, bioart is frequently misunderstood. Bioart and the Vitality of Media is the first comprehensive theoretical account of the art form, situating it in the contexts of art history, laboratory practice, and media theory.

Mitchell begins by sketching a brief history of bioart in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, describing the artistic, scientific, and social preconditions that made it conceptually and technologically possible. He illustrates how bioartists employ technologies and practices from the medical and life sciences in an effort to transform relationships among science, medicine, corporate interests, and the public. By illustrating the ways in which bioart links a biological understanding of media -- that is, â€œmediaâ€ understood as the elements of an environment that facilitate the growth and development of living entities -- with communicational media, Bioart and the Vitality of Media demonstrates how art and biotechnology together change our conceptions and practices of mediation. Reading bioart through a range of resources, from Immanuel Kantâ€™s discussion of disgust to Gilles Deleuzeâ€™s theory of affect to Gilbert Simondonâ€™s concept of â€œindividuation,â€ provides readers with a new theoretical approach for understanding bioart and its relationships to both new media and scientific institutions.
Country USA
Brand University of Washington Press
Manufacturer University of Washington Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 9780295990088
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780295990088
ReleaseDate 2010-05-15

Country	USA
Brand	University of Washington Press
Manufacturer	University of Washington Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	9780295990088
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780295990088
ReleaseDate	2010-05-15

Bioart and the Vitality of Media (In Vivo)

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