Table of contents for Signs of life : bio art and beyond / Eduardo Kac, editor.

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Contents 
ART BEYOND BIOLOGY
Introduction, Eduardo Kac
BIOTECH CULTURE
Eugene Thacker ¿ Open Source DNA and Bioinformatic 
Bodies
Gunalan Nadarajan ¿ Ornamental Biotechnology and 
Parergonal Aesthetics
Bernard Andrieu ¿ Embodying the chimera: biotechnology 
and subjectivity
Richard Doyle ¿ The Transgenic Involution
Louis Bec ¿ Life Art
BIOETHICS
Cary Wolfe ¿ Bioethics and the Post-Humanist 
Imperative
Dorothy Nelkin ¿ Blood and Bioethics in the 
Biotechnology Age
Lori Andrews ¿ Art as a Public Policy Medium
François Dagognet ¿ Reflections on Bioethics
Dominique Lestel ¿ Liberating Life from Itself: 
Bioethics and Aesthetics of Animality
BIO ART
Eduardo Kac ¿ Life Transformation ¿ Art Mutation
George Gessert ¿ Why I Breed Plants 
Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey ¿ Chlorophyll
Paul Perry, Good and Evil on the Long Voyage
Marta Menezes ¿ Art: in vivo and in vitro
Oron Catts/Ionat Zurr ¿ Semi-Living Art
Joe Davis ¿ Cases for Genetic Art
Adam Zaretsky ¿ VivoArts
Paul Vanouse ¿ The Relative Velocity Inscription 
Device
Regina Trindade ¿ Proteins
Art Oriented Object (Marion Laval-Jeantet and Benoît 
Mangin) ¿ Skin Culture
David Kremers, Repro Duction
Natalie Jeremijenko ¿ OneTree
Brandon Ballengée ¿ The Art of Unnatural Selection
Marc Quinn - Genomic Portrait
BIOLOGY AND ART HISTORY
Oliver Botar ¿ Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Biocentric 
Constructivism
Ronald J. Gedrim ¿ Edward Steichen's 1936 Exhibition 
of Delphinium Blooms 
Vilem Flusser ¿ On Science
Barbara Stafford ¿ From Genetic Perspective to 
Biohistory: The Ambiguities of Looking Down, Across, 
and Beyond
Yves Michaud ¿ Art and Biotechnology
CONTRIBUTORS

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Biotechnology in art.
Art and science.
Art -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.