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Informationen zum Autor Robert Mitchell is associate professor of English at Duke University. He is the author, with Catherine Waldby, of Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism and, with Phillip Thurtle, Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information and Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body. Klappentext Bioart is art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria) or more traditional materials to comment on biotechnological practice. At times both troubling and controversial, it attracts enormous attention but is frequently misunderstood. This is the first comprehensive account of the art form in the context of art history, laboratory practice, and media theory.--Robert Mitchell is associate professor of English at Duke University.- Zusammenfassung 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. This book offers a theoretical account of the art form! situating it in the contexts of art history! laboratory practice! and media theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: Living Art 1. Defining Bioart: Representation and Vitality 2. The Three Eras of Vitalist Bioart 3. Bioart and the Folding of Social Space 4. Affect, Framing, and Mediacy 5. The Strange Vitality of Media 6. Bioart and the "Newness" of Media Notes Works Cited Index
