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Synthetic aesthetics : investigating synthetic biology's designs on nature

Title
Synthetic aesthetics : investigating synthetic biology's designs on nature / [edited by] Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg ... [et al.].
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2014.

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Additional Authors
Ginsberg, Alexandra Daisy.
Description
xxii, 349 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm
Subject
  • Art and biology
  • Synthetic biology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Synthetic biology : what it is and why it matters / Alistair Elfick and Drew Endy -- Countering the engineering mindset : the conflict of art and synthetic biology / Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr -- Design as the machines come to life / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg -- Nature is designed / Drew Endy -- There is no design in nature / Pablo Schyfter -- Design evolution / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg -- Bio logic / David Benjamin and Fernan Federici -- Scale and metaphor / Pablo Schyfter -- Living among living things / Will Carey ... [et al.] -- Constrained creativity : an engineer's perspective / Alistair Elfick -- The biogenic timestamp : exploring the rearrangement of matter through synthetic biology and art / Oron Catts and Hideo Iwasaki -- Time as critique / Jane Calvert -- Synthetic sound from synthetic biology / Chris Chafe and Mariana Leguia -- Abstraction and representation / Pablo Schyfter -- Living machines / Sheref Mansy and Sascha Pohflepp -- Evolution vs. design? / Jane Calvert -- The inside out body / Christina Agapakis and Sissel Tolaas -- Transgressing biological boundaries / Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Call Number
JQE 14-282
ISBN
  • 9780262019996 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 026201999X (hardcover : alk. paper)
LCCN
2013013618
OCLC
835887515
Title
Synthetic aesthetics : investigating synthetic biology's designs on nature / [edited by] Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg ... [et al.].
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2014.
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Ginsberg, Alexandra Daisy.
Research Call Number
JQE 14-282
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