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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

Subjects

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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