| Series Foreword | ix |
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| Acknowledgments and Credits | xi |
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| Introduction: Art that Looks You in the Eye
Hybrids, Clones, Mutants, Synthetics, and Transgenics
Eduardo Kac | 1 |
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| I | Biotech Culture | 1 |
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| 1 | Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic Bodies
Eugene Thacker | 31 |
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| 2 | Ornamental Biotechnology and Parergonal Aesthetics
Gunalan Nadarajan | 43 |
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| 3 | Embodying the Chimera
Biotechnology and Subjectivity
Bernard Andrieu | 57 |
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| 4 | The Transgenic Involution
Richard Doyle | 69 |
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| 5 | Life Art
Louis Bec | 83 |
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| II | Bioethics | 93 |
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| 6 | Bioethics and the Posthumanist Imperative
Cary Wolfe | 95 |
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| 7 | Blood and Bioethics in the Biotechnology Age
Dorothy Nelkin | 115 |
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| 8 | Art as a Public Policy Medium
Lori B. Andrews | 151 |
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| 9 | Liberating Life from Itself
Bioethics and Aesthetics of Animality
Dominique Lestel | 151 |
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| III | Bio Art | 163 |
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| 10 | Life Transformation—Art Mutation
Eduardo Kac | 163 |
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| 11 | Why I Breed Plants
George Gessert | 185 |
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| 12 | Chlorophyll Apparitions
Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey | 199 |
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| 13 | Good and Evil on the Long Voyage
Paul Perry | 211 |
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| 14 | Art: in vivo and in vitro
Marta de Menezes | 215 |
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| 15 | Semi-Living Art
Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr | 231 |
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| 16 | Cases for Genetic Art
Joe Davis | 249 |
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| 17 | VivoArts
Adam Zaretsky | 267 |
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| 18 | The Relative Velocity Inscription Device
Paul Vanouse | 277 |
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| 19 | Proteins
Regina Trindade | 285 |
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| 20 | Skin Culture
Object-Oriented Art
(Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît Mangin) | 291 |
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| 21 | REPRO DUCTION
davidkremers | 295 |
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| 22 | OneTree
Natalie Jeremijenko | 301 |
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| 23 | The Art of Unnatural Selection
Brandon Ballengeé | 303 |
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| 24 | Genomic Portrait
Marc Quinn | 309 |
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| IV | Biology and Art History | 313 |
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| 25 | The Origins of László Moholy-Nagy's Biocentric Constructivism
Oliver A. I. Botar | 315 |
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| 26 | The Growth of Microorganisms on Paper
Alexander Fleming | 345 |
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| 27 | Edward Steichen’s 1936 Exhibition of Delphinium Blooms
An Art of Flower Breeding
Ronald J. Gedrim | 347 |
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| 28 | On Science
Vilęm Flusser | 371 |
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| 29 | From Genetic Perspective to Biohistory
The Ambiguities of Looking Down, Across, and Beyond
Barbara Maria Stafford | 373 |
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| 30 | Art and Biotechnology
Yves Michaud | 387 |
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| Contributors | 395 |
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| Index | 401 |
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