Art and biotechnology : viral culture from CRISPR to COVID / edited by Claire Correo Nettleton and Louise Mackenzie.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nettleton, Claire, editor, contributor.

Mackenzie, Louise (Artist), editor, contributor.

Series:

Biotechne: interthinking art, science and design.

Biotechne: interthinking art, science and design

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science and the arts.

Art and biology.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 254 pages, 33 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations (chiefly color)

Other Title:

Viral culture from CRISPR to COVID

Viral culture from clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat to coronavirus disease

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, [2024].

Summary:

"This interdisciplinary anthology examines the relationship between developments in biotechnology and both artistic and literary innovation, focussing in particular on how newfound molecular technologies and knowledge regimes, such as CRISPR gene editing, alter conceptions of what it means to be human.The book presents 21 essays, split across four parts, from a coterie of artists, theorists, historians and scientists which examine the symbiotic relationship between humans, animals, and viruses as well as the impossibility of germ-free existence.The essays in this volume are urgent in their topicality, embodying the exhilarating yet alarming zeitgeist of contemporary nonhuman-to-human viral transmission and gene editing technologies. Ultimately, Art and Biotechnology reveals how art and biotechnology influence each other and how art has shaped the discussion around gene editing and the socio-cultural aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is essential reading for students and researchers focussing on science and art, environmental humanities, and ethics."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: CRISPR, COVID, Creativity, and Control / Claire Correo Nettleton and Louise Mackenzie

Part One. Biotechnology and the Arts: Studies

1. Resurrecting the Woolly Mammoth and Muybridge's Horse CRISPR, Cinema, and Species Revival / Claire Correo Nettleton

2. Autopoiesis in Contemporary Bioart Rethinking Autonomy and Agency / Charissa N. Terranova

3. The Exterminating Angels Bio-/Thanatos-Art / Pablo Baler

4. Viral Variation(s) Juan Eduardo Cirlot and the Poetics of Permutation / Paul Cahill

Part Two. Biotechnology and the Arts: Practice

5. Baitul Ma'mur: DNA Manifolds and the House of Angels / Joe Davis

6. Gene Music Biologically Motivated Musical Serialism / Ira Fleming

7. Transformation An Exercise in How to Relate to Lively Material / Louise Mackenzie

8. Symbiogenesis Begins at the Mouth, Skin, and Genitalia / Ken Rinaldo

9. Aphrodisiac in the Machine / Stephanie Rothenberg

Part Three. COVID and the Arts: Reflections

10. Art Worlds Evolving Notes on Evolutionary Metaphors of Change and the Global Art System / Meredith Tromble

11. Embracing Viral Uncertainty? It's Complicated / Roberta Buiani

12. The Anosmatic Symposium / Regine Rapp and Christian de Lutz

13. FEMeeting Making of an Antibodies Network / Marta de Menezes and Dalila Honorato

14. COVID-19 and the Embodiment of Disruption Assemblages of Agency and the Turducken of Chaos / WhiteFeather Hunter and Molly McKinney

15. Life in the Time of Slow Hauling Knowledge / Dolores Steinman

Part Four. COVID and the Arts: Practice

16. Thermobiopolitics / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr

17. Utter On the Matter of Human Emissions / Paul Vanous

18. Death Tool Kit Practical and Spiritual Guidance from Artists / Adriene Jenik, IONE, Marne Lucas, Linda Mary Montano, and Kira O'Reilly Kathy High

19. Creating and Exhibiting Artworks Embedded with SARS CoV-2 Genetic Material during the COVID-19 Pandemic / Anna Dumitriu

20. Living in the Pandemic Panopticon Who/What Is Watching You While You Think You Are Alone? / Karolina Z˙yniewicz

21. Viruses as Testing Grounds for Speculations / Pei-Ying Lin.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource, publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781350376052

1350376051

9781350376045

1350376043

OCLC:

1416966288