Bioart kitchen: art, feminism and technoscience
What do new technologies taste like? A growing number of contemporary artists are working with food, live materials and scientific processes, in order to explore and challenge the ways in which manipulation of biological materials informs our cooking and eating. 'Bioart', or biological art, uses biotech methods to manipulate living systems, from tissues to ecologies. While most critiques of bioart emphasise the influences of new media, digital media, and genetics, this book takes a bold, altern…
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- Full title :Bioart kitchen : art, feminism and technoscience / Lindsay Kelley.
Summary
What do new technologies taste like? A growing number of contemporary artists are working with food, live materials and scientific processes, in order to explore and challenge the ways in which manipulation of biological materials informs our cooking and eating. 'Bioart', or biological art, uses biotech methods to manipulate living systems, from tissues to ecologies. While most critiques of bioart emphasise the influences of new media, digital media, and genetics, this book takes a bold, alternative approach. Bioart Kitchen explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.
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- Publication Date:2016.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):I.B. Tauris
- Place of Publication:London
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2016.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xii, 244 pages) : : illustrations.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1350985538, 9781350985537, 1784534137, 9781784534134
- DOI:10.5040/9781350985537.
- oclc:on1172503380
- LC Classification:N72.B56
Table of Contents
Introduction : What is food? -- Chapter 1. Subject P : Embodying Home Economics : Home economics origins of public amateurisms now active in bioart engagements with food and eating -- Chapter 2. Chicken Heart Soup : Early tissue culture work in laboratories and speculative fiction; the animal body in pieces -- Chapter 3. Domestic Computing : Kitchen as laboratory, recipe as data point, woman as computer -- Chapter 4. Semiotics of the Kitchen : Feminist Food Art : Locating a performance politics of food and eating in feminist art of the 1970s -- Chapter 5. DIY Coke : Industrial interventions, kits, and critical approaches to processed food -- Chapter 6. Meat Culture : In vitro meat and the victimless utopias of the Tissue Culture & Art Project -- Chapter 7. Public Amateurism : Critical Art Ensemble's Free Range Grain and the risks of learning in public -- Chapter 8. Cookbook : The cookbook form as political critique -- Chapter 9. Carnal Light : With Eva Hayward : Eduardo Kac's GFP Bunny, invisible jellyfish bodies, and somalumenal encounters -- Chapter 10. Digesting Wetlands : Natalie Jeremijenko's Cross(x)Species Adventure Club, molecular gastronomy, and the human microbiome imagi…
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