Bioart and the Vitality of Media

Author: Robert Mitchell
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 0295990082

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Bioart, art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice, now receives enormous media attention. Download Bioart and the Vitality of Media (In Vivo) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. Yet despite this attention, bioart is frequently misunderstood. Bioart and the Vitality of Media is the first comprehensive theoretical account of the art form, situating it in the contexts of art history, laboratory practice, and media theory.--Mitchell begins by sketching a brief history of bioart in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, describing the artistic, scientific, and social preconditions that made it conceptually and technologically possible. He illustrates how bioartists employ technologies and practices from Search and find a lot of engineering books in many category availabe for free download.

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