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BioArt is an art practice in which the medium is living matter and the “works of art” are produced in laboratories and/or artists’ and designers’ studios. The tool is biotechnology, which includes such technologies as genetic engineering and cloning. BioArt is considered by most artists to be strictly limited to “living forms,” although there is some debate as to the absoluteness of this criteria and the stages at which matter can be considered to be alive or living. Because there is no codified meaning of BioArt, the medium and/or genre of BioArt is still being defined. The materials used by Bioartists are cells, DNA molecules and living tissue. Tampering with living forms and practicing in the life sciences brings about ethical, social and aesthetic inquiry. BioArt is an early 21st Century practice for artists in bringing even closer the “arts and sciences.”
BioArt pioneers
Other BioArt practitioners
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Further reading
- Levy, Steven. (2007) "Best of Technology Writing 2007" (University of Michigan Press, in conjunction with DIGITALCULTUREBOOKS [1]
- Hauser, Jens. (2006) "Bio Art - Taxonomy of an Etymological Monster" (UCLA Art/Sci Center series). [2]
- Thacker, Eugene. (2006) The Global Genome - Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture (Massachusetts: MIT Press Books) pp. 305-320. [3]
- Vita-More, Natasha. (2007) "Brave BioArt 2: Shedding the Bio, Amassing the Nano, and Cultivating Emortal Life," "Reviewing the Future" Summit, Montreal, Canada, Coeur des Sciences, University of Quebec. [4]
- Kac, Eduardo. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007). ISBN 0-262-11293-0
- Jens Hauser (ed.). sk-interfaces. Exploding borders - creating membranes in art, technology and society. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press 2008
- Nicole C. Karafyllis (ed.). Biofakte - Versuch über den Menschen zwischen Artefakt und Lebewesen. Paderborn: Mentis 2003. (in German)
- Ingeborg Reichle. Kunst aus dem Labor. Springer Publ. 2005. (in German)es:Bio-Art
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