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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelley, Lindsay, author.

Contributor:

Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.

Series:

International library of modern and contemporary art ; 29.

International library of modern and contemporary art ; 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and science.

Art and technology.

Biotechnology in art.

Feminism and art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.

Place of Publication:

London, England : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 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:

Introduction: what is food?

Subject P: embodying home economics

Chicken heart soup

Domestic computing

Semiotics of the kitchen: feminist food art

DIY Coke

Meat culture

Public amateurism

Cookbook

Carnal light

From sanitation to bioremeidation

Plumpinon

Epilogue: dysphagiac.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781350985537

1350985538

9781786730008

1786730006

9781786720009

1786720000

OCLC:

1023028614