Bioart and the Vitality of Media
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Bioart is art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria) or more traditional materials to comment on biotechnological practice. At times both troubling and controversial, it attracts enormous attention but is frequently misunderstood. This is the first comprehensive account of the art form in the context of art history, laboratory practice, and media theory.--Robert Mitchell is associate professor of English at Duke University.-
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Robert Mitchell is associate professor of English at Duke University. He is the author, with Catherine Waldby, of Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism and, with Phillip Thurtle, Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information and Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body.
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: Living Art
1. Defining Bioart: Representation and Vitality
2. The Three Eras of Vitalist Bioart
3. Bioart and the Folding of Social Space
4. Affect, Framing, and Mediacy
5. The Strange Vitality of Media
6. Bioart and the "Newness" of Media
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