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Art in the Age of Technoscience

Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art

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Authors:
  1. Ingeborg Reichle

    1. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin

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  • First comprehensive survey on "Transgenic Art", "Bio-Art" and "Artificial-Life-Art"
  • 280 colour images provide a broad overview of these new developments in art

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Art in the Age of Technoscience: Transgressing the Boundaries

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Dawning of the Biotech Century

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 15-31

  4. Art in the Genetic Age

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 33-62

  5. When Life Becomes Art

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 63-95

  6. Genesthetics: Molecular Biology and the Arts

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 97-119

  7. Art in the Age of Genetic Engineering

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 121-144

  8. From Life-like Machines to a Silicon Second Nature

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 145-166

  9. The Living and the Life-like: Art and Artificial Life

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 168-191

  10. Art and Digital Evolution

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 193-211

  11. Epilog

    • Ingeborg Reichle
    Pages 213-216

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 217-422
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About this book

Art, the Life Sciences, and the Humanities: In Search ofa Relationship Robert Ztuijnenberg Over the last decades there has been a distinctive effort in the arts to engage with science through participation in the actual practice of science. ' Exchange proj­ ects between artists and scientists, such as artist-in-lab projects, have become common and a large number oforganizations have emerged that stimulate and initiate collaboration between artists andscientists. ' Research funding organiza­ tions in thehumanities,such asthe British Arts and Humanities Research Coun­ cil (AHRC) and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), have also initiated all sorts of research programs that explore and support inter­ actions between art and science. ' Asa result, artists have grown more involved with scientific concerns and practices, and their increased interactions with scientists have also become a subject of study within the humanities. Why do artists openly seek to gain access to the domain of the sciences? And why do scholars in the humanities value collaboration between artists and scientists so much that theyare willing to spend research time and money on it? This interest in science, I argue in this preface for Ingeborg Reichle's bookArt in theAge of Tecbnoscience,' underscores that the arts and the humanities are searching to establish a new relationship with the natural sciences as well as with each other. Art and Science T he relationship between thearts and thesciences hasbeen subject to permanent change over the past two centuries.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Berlin

    Ingeborg Reichle

About the author

Ingeborg Reichle (1970) studied art history, archaeology, sociology, and philosophy in Freiburg i. Br., London, and Hamburg. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Hamburg and received her PhD from the Humboldt University in Berlin in spring 2004. From 1998 till 2003, she was active as research fellow in the Art History Department at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and taught courses in new media art as well as courses about the interplay between art and science. While at Humboldt University she was also involved in the practical application of electronics through the use of computers and new media in art historical work, such as distant-learning projects, developing relevant Internet resources, web constructions, and image data bases (Prometheus). Her doctoral dissertation, which explored art, artificial life, and biotechnology in the age of technoscience, was published in 2005 by Springer: "Kunst aus dem Labor. Zum Verhältnis von Kunst und Wissenschaft im Zeitalter der Technoscience" Vienna/New York 2005. Since 2005 she lectures at the Hermann von Helmholtz Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and is currently research fellow at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin in the interdisciplinary research group "The World as Image".

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Art in the Age of Technoscience

  • Book Subtitle: Genetic Engineering, Robotics, and Artificial Life in Contemporary Art

  • Authors: Ingeborg Reichle

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-78161-6

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXX, 422

  • Number of Illustrations: 456 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Arts

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