[spectre] "Meta-Life. Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, Artificial Life and the Arts"

[Annick2]

Dear Spectrites,

I have the great pleasure to announce the publication of the 
new Leonardo ebook "Meta-Life. Biotechnologies, Synthetic 
Biology, Artificial Life and the Arts", co-edited by Roger 
Malina, Louise Whiteley and myself.

It is a true mamoth : 45 articles !
Enjoy the reading as much as I did!

Best
Annick

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META-LIFE: Biotechnologies, Synthetic Biology, A-Life and 
the Arts

A Leonardo-MIT Press e-book edited by Annick Bureaud, Roger 
Malina and Louise Whiteley.

45 articles - 694 pages

Editorial Committee: David Benqué, Annick Bureaud, Oron 
Catts, Matthew Gardiner, Roger F. Malina, Nell Tenhaaf, Ruth 
West, Louise Whiteley

AMAZON URL: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LI69BQO

An exo-life may not come from outer space hiting the Earth 
riding a meteorite but very well from the lab, designed by a 
scientist —unless it is an artist— weaving biology and 
computing in a petri dish or a bioreactor as a vessel.
With biotechnologies, synthetic biology and Artificial Life, 
artists have opened new avenues in the artworld, going from 
still to autonomous objects to living creatures, exploring 
the thin border between animate and inanimate, confronting 
the grown, the evolved, the born and the built, raising 
aesthetical but also social, political and ethical issues.
In this ground breaking collection, the editors have 
commission new original essays by key figures in these 
fields and collected over 40 articles previously published 
in the Leonardo Journal that document the ideas and practice 
of artists involved in these areas as well as theoreticians 
and historians.
Chapters include: Between Bio, Silico and Synthetic: Of Life 
and Arts; Artificial Life and the Arts; Bioart; Bio-Fiction, 
Design, Architecture; DIY Biology-Biohacking (see below for 
full Table of Contents).

A web companion to this e-book is available at: 
http://synthbioart.texashats.org
The Meta-Life e-book is a project by Leonardo/Olats 
(www.olats.org) as an outcome of the European Studiolab 
Project (studiolabproject.eu/), supported by the European 
Commission Seventh Framework Programme, in partnership with 
Leonardo/ISAST (www.leonardo.info) and MIT Press and in 
collaboration with ATEC at the University of Texas at Dallas 
(http://utdallas.edu/atec/).


Table of Contents

Preface, Roger Malina, Meta-Life: "Aha" Moments That Drive 
Art-Science
Introduction, Annick Bureaud, "Art at the Future Tense"


1 - BETWEEN BIO, SILICO AND SYNTHETIC: OF LIFE AND ARTS
- Nell Tenhaaf, "“Trust Regions” for Art/Sci", 2014

- Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr, "Countering the Engineering 
Mindset: The Conflict of Art and Synthetic Biology", 2014

- Amy M. Youngs, "The Fine Art of Creating Life", 2000

- Michael John Gorman, "The Sweet Smell of Synthetic 
Biology, GROW YOUR OWN… Life After Nature, at Science 
Gallery", 2014

- Matthew Gardiner & Al. "Project Genesis: Ars Electronica", 
2014


2 – ARTIFICIAL LIFE AND THE ARTS
2.1 - ALife – At the Crossroad of Art, Science and Philosophy
- Nell Tenhaaf, "As Art Is Lifelike: Evolution, Art, and the 
Readymade", 1998

- Edward A. Shanken, “Life as We Know It and/or Life as It 
Could Be: Epistemology and the Ontology/Ontogeny of 
Artificial Life", 1998

- Kenneth E. Rinaldo, “Technology Recapitulates Phylogeny: 
Artificial Life Art”, 1998

- Ursula Huws, “Nature, Technology and Art: The Emergence of 
a New Relationship?”, 2000

- Mark Bedau, “The Scientific and Philosophical Scope of 
Artificial Life”, 2002

- Alvaro Moreno, “Artificial Life and Philosophy”, 2002


2.2 - ALife – Artworks
- Sommerer Christa, Mignonneau Laurent, “Art as a Living 
System: Interactive Computer Artworks”, 1999

- Ray Thomas S., "Aesthetically Evolved Virtual Pets", 2001

- Jane Prophet, “Sublime Ecologies and Artistic Endeavors: 
Artificial Life and Interactivity in the Online Project 
TechnoSphere”, 1996

- Bruce Damer, “The Cyberbiological Worlds of Nerve Garden: 
A Test Bed for VRML 2.0”, 1998

- Kusahara Machiko, "The Art of Creating Subjective Reality: 
An Analysis of Japanese Digital Pets", 2001

- Anna Dumitriu and Blay Whitby, “Cybernetic Bacteria 2..0, 2011

- Nell Tenhaaf, "Art Embodies A-Life: The VIDA Competition", 
2008


3 - BIOART
	3.1 - BioArt – Creating with Living Matter
- Adam Zaretsky, "Viva Vivo! Living Art Is Dead”, 2004

- Steve Tomasula, “Genetic Art and the Aesthetics of 
Biology”, 2002

- George Gessert, “Bastard Flowers”, 1996

- Suzanne Anker, “Gene Culture: Molecular Metaphor in Visual 
Art”, 2000


	3.2 - BioArt – Creations
- George Gessert, “Notes on Genetic Art”, 1993

- Eduardo Kac, “GFP Bunny”, 2003

- Marta de Menezes, “The Artificial Natural: Manipulating 
Butterfly Wing Patterns for Artistic Purposes”, 2003

- Catts Oron, Zurr Ionat, "Growing Semi-Living Sculptures: 
The Tissue Culture & Art Project", 2002

- Catts Oron, "Not Moving – Living", 2014

- Tagny Duff, Jill Muhling, Maria Grade Godinho and Stuart 
Hodgetts, “How to Make Living Viral Tattoos”, 2011

- Patricia Noronha, “Yeast Biopaintings: Biofilms as an 
Artistic Instrument”, 2011

- Polona Tratnik, “37°C: From the inside of a Being to the 
Thin Line of Life”, 2005

- Zurr Ionat, "The Animation of Lab-Grown Life: Tissue 
Engineered Muscle Actuator (TEMA)", 2014

- Julie Clarke, “Corporeal Mélange: Aesthetics and Ethics of 
Biomaterials in Stelarc and Nina Sellars's Blender”, 2006

- Pelling Andrew E., "Re-purposing The Behaviour and Motion 
of Living Cells in an Anti-Disciplinary and Curiosity-Driven 
Context", 2014

- Hilton Craig, "The Immortalisation of Billy Apple®: An 
Art-Science Collaboration", 2014

- Tony Bellaver, “Teaching Nature How to Become Nature: The 
Woodland Recovery Project”, 1998



4 - BIO — FICTION, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE
- Judy Malloy, "OK Research, OK Genetic Engineering, Bad 
Information: Information Art Describes Technology, 1988

- Tran T. Kim-Trang and Karl Mihail, “Gene Genies 
Worldwide", 2003

- David Benqué, "Blueprints for the Unknown, Questioning the 
"Design" of Life", 2014

- Dennis Dollens, “Architecture as Nature: A Biodigital 
Hypothesis”, 2009

- Bakke Monika, "Living (On) Dust: Around the Globe with 
Mineral Particles & Microbial Hitchhikers", 2014


5 - DIY BIOLOGY -  BIOHACKING
- Morgan Meyer, "Hacking Life? The Politics and Poetics of 
DIY Biology", 2014

- Alessandro Delfanti, "Is Do-It-Yourself Biology Being 
Co-Opted by Institutions?", 2014

- Denisa Kera, "Do-It-Yourself biology (DIYbio): Return of 
the Folly of Empiricism and Living Instruments", 2014

- Nurit Bar Shai, "GenSpace, New York, Art & Science at 
Genspace, Brooklyn's Community Biotech Lab", 2014

- Cathal Garvey (interview by David Benqué), 2014