Bioart kitchen : art, feminism and technoscience / Lindsay Kelley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelley, Lindsay, author.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

International library of modern and contemporary art ; 29.

International library of modern and contemporary art ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biotechnology in art.

Art and technology.

Art and science.

Feminism and art.

Physical Description:

xii, 244 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2016.

Summary:

What do new technologies taste like? A growing number of contemporary artists are working with food, live materials and scientific processes, in order to explore and challenge the ways in which manipulation of biological materials informs our cooking and eating.'Bioart', or biological art, uses biotech methods to manipulate living systems, from tissues to ecologies. While most critiques of bioart emphasise the influences of new media, digital media, and genetics, this book takes a bold, alternative approach. Bioart Kitchen explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Subject P: Embodying Home Economics

2. Chicken Heart Soup

3. Domestic Computing

4. Semiotics of the Kitchen: Feminist Food Art

5. DIY Coke

6. Meat Culture

7. Public Amateurism

8. Cookbook

9. Carnal Light

10. From Sanitation to Bioremediation

11. Plumpinon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-236) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

9781784534134

1784534137

OCLC:

946116547

Publisher Number:

99990099959