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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><i><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arno Pro",serif">Culture
Machine</span></i></b><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"> is pleased
to announce
</span><i><span
style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arno Pro",serif">Vol 24
The Aesthetics of Biomachines</span></i><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif">,
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif">guest-edited
by Johan Lau Munkholm, Naja Grundtmann, Kristin Veel and
Kathrin Maurer, from Copenhagen University and the
University of Southern Denmark<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif">Link:
<a
href="https://culturemachine.net/archives/aesthetics-of-biomachines/"
moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext">https://culturemachine.net/archives/aesthetics-of-biomachines/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif">From the
Guest-Editor’s Introduction:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif">This special
issue of
<i>Culture Machine</i> on biomachines seeks to expand our
understanding of the current state of the interactions
between the biological and the machinic through an aesthetic
lens. The notion of ‘aesthetics’ as regards biomachines
invokes multiple instigations of the term. We employ it to
refer to 1) the study of sensory knowledge, as defined in
the work of Baumgarten, and 2) the philosophical branch that
studies art and its interpretation. Ascribing aesthetic
properties to biomachines allows us to home in on the
particulars of the techno-sensory experiences at work in
their contemporary configurations. The articles in this
issue describe the constitution and implication of the
meeting between the biological and the machinic in differing
ways. While some contributors identify in the encounter
composite forms that confuse the distinction between biology
and machine, others focus on how computational mediation
encloses biological processes for instrumental reasons while
(intentionally or not) producing new forms of knowledge and
affective entanglements. In other contributions, the
transformative potentials that emerge in the meeting between
humans and machines are assessed according to the power
relations they construct, reproduce or challenge. It is
common to all the contributions, however, that the terms and
the constitution of relationality of <i>bios </i>and
machine are a basic topic of enquiry that opens multiple
affiliated questions and problems that sharpen our critical
sense of our developing technological reality. Equally
common to the contributions is a fundamental concern with
aesthetics. In employing aesthetics as an approach or a
practice that gives room to notions of the machinic outside
its immediate instrumental context, the issue offers studies
of biomachines that allow us to appreciate our new
technological realities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arno Pro",serif">Contents<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><a
href="https://culturemachine.net/?p=8483"
moz-do-not-send="true">Artificial Touch in Contemporary
Art and Culture</a><br>
<b>Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen & Lea Laura N. Michelsen</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><a
href="https://culturemachine.net/?p=8504"
moz-do-not-send="true">Of Grafts, Interferences and
Haploids: Speculative Reproduction and Biomachinic Time in
Naomi Mitchison’s
<i>Memoirs of a Spacewoman</i></a><br>
<b>Henriette Steiner & Kristin Veel</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><a
href="https://culturemachine.net/?p=8509"
moz-do-not-send="true">AI Uncanny: Posthuman Entanglement
and Biomachine Ethics in
<i>The Trouble with Being Born</i></a><br>
<b>Annie Ring</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><a
href="https://culturemachine.net/?p=8517"
moz-do-not-send="true">Contagious Life: Clones, Deadbots,
Digital Twins</a><br>
<b>Caroline Bassett</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><a
href="https://culturemachine.net/?p=8522"
moz-do-not-send="true">More Than an Optimisation Problem:
AI Incommensurability as Companionable Aesthetics</a><br>
<b>Nicole De Brabandere</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><a
href="https://culturemachine.net/?p=8527"
moz-do-not-send="true">Bio-AI: The Aesthetics and Ethics
of Data Animism</a><br>
<b>Joanna Zylinska</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><a
href="https://culturemachine.net/?p=8532"
moz-do-not-send="true">Pierre Huyghe’s Art, Bio-Machines,
and the Question of Life</a><br>
<b>Kathrin Maurer</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span
style="font-family:"Arno Pro",serif"><a
href="https://culturemachine.net/?p=8537"
moz-do-not-send="true">Encountering the Biomachinic Planet</a><br>
<b>Thomas Storey</b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Gary Hall
Professor of Media
Centre for Postdigital Cultures, Coventry University
Director of Open Humanities Press: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org</a>
Blog: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/</a>
Latest:
Book: Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/">http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/</a>
Journal issue: Ecologies of Dissemination issue of PARSE Journal #21 - Summer 2025, edited by Eva Weinmayr and Femke Snelting: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination">https://parsejournal.com/journal/#ecologies-of-dissemination</a>. (I'm one of the contributors to this experimental issue which emphasizes collective over individual authorship.)
Video: 'Liquidate AI Art', Computer Arts Society: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art">https://www.bcs.org/events-calendar/2025/october/webinar-liquidate-ai-art</a>
Talk: 'The Independent Intellectual vs Posting Zero and the Dead Internet': <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/12/2/the-independent-intellectual-vs-posting-zero-and-the-dead-in.html">http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/12/2/the-independent-intellectual-vs-posting-zero-and-the-dead-in.html</a>
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