Drawing Processes of Life : molecules, cells, organisms / Gemma Anderson-Tempini, John Dupré, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Anderson-Tempini, Gemma, editor.

Dupré, John, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect Books, 2023.

Summary:

How the challenge of depicting biological systems can generate productive questions for artists and scientists. An artist drawing cell division faces a problem: what is the best way to visually represent a dynamic process? This anthology, edited by an artist and a philosopher of science, explores drawing as a way of inquiring into living processes at the molecular, cellular, and organismal scale. In doing so, drawing emerges as a tool for relaying and uncovering knowledge - a pathway for research, not an end result. Incorporating drawing studies and contributions from schol- ars in the humanities and life sciences, Drawing Processes of Life addresses epistemological issues arising in cell division, insect metamorphosis, protein folding, and other ever-shifting biological systems. Fulfilling the promise of an interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and scientists, this book demonstrates the interweav- ing of processes, scientific, artistic, and non-human that the abstractive techniques of modern science so readily obscure.

Contents:

List of FiguresAcknowledgementsForeword: Symbiotic Perspectives on the Processes of Biology and Art - Scott F. GilbertIntroduction - John Dupré and Gemma Anderson-Tempini1. Conrad H. Waddington and the Image of Process Biology - K. Lee Chichester2. Drawing as a Pragmatist Visual Epistemology - Chiara Ambrosio3. Drawing to Extend Waddington's Epigenetic Landscape - Gemma Anderson-Tempini, Berta Verd and Johannes Jaeger4. Drawing the Origami Embryo as a Stratified Space-Time Worm - Gemma Anderson-Tempini and Alessio Corti5. Drawing the Dynamic Nature of Cell Division - Gemma Anderson-Tempini, James Wakefield and John Dupré6. Drawing as Intuitive Mode for Representing Protein Dynamics - Gemma Anderson-Tempini, Jonathan 'J. J.' Phillips and John Dupré7. Drawing Out the Superorganism: Artistic Intervention and the Amplification of Processes of Life - Heather Barnett8. Mimicry, Adaptation, Expression - Wahida Khandker9. Metamorphosis in Images: Insect Transformation from the End of the Seventeenth to the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century - Janina Wellmann10. Flow, Attend, Flex: Introducing a Process-Oriented Approach to Live Cell Biological Research - James G. WakefieldProcess Epistemologies for the Careful Interplay of Art and Biology: An Afterword - Sarah R. Gilbert and Scott F. GilbertNotes on ContributorsIndex.

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