{"product_id":"bioart-and-the-vitality-of-media-9780295990088","title":"Bioart and the Vitality of Media","description":"\u003cp\u003eBioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice -- now receives enormous media attention. Yet despite this attention, bioart is frequently misunderstood. \u003ci\u003eBioart and the Vitality of Media\u003c\/i\u003e is the first comprehensive theoretical account of the art form, situating it in the contexts of art history, laboratory practice, and media theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMitchell begins by sketching a brief history of bioart in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, describing the artistic, scientific, and social preconditions that made it conceptually and technologically possible. He illustrates how bioartists employ technologies and practices from the medical and life sciences in an effort to transform relationships among science, medicine, corporate interests, and the public. By illustrating the ways in which bioart links a biological understanding of media -- that is, \"media\" understood as the elements of an environment that facilitate the growth and development of living entities -- with communicational media, \u003ci\u003eBioart and the Vitality of Media\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how art and biotechnology together change our conceptions and practices of mediation. Reading bioart through a range of resources, from Immanuel Kant's discussion of disgust to Gilles Deleuze's theory of affect to Gilbert Simondon's concept of \"individuation,\" provides readers with a new theoretical approach for understanding bioart and its relationships to both new media and scientific institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eRobert Mitchell \u003c\/b\u003eis associate professor of English at Duke University. He is the author, with Catherine Waldby, of \u003ci\u003eTissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e and, with Phillip Thurtle, \u003ci\u003eData Made Flesh: Embodying Information\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSemiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50844255453458,"sku":"9780295990088","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_10a3b1c1-f38e-4249-8052-0151f2e99a5b.jpg?v=1737314802","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bioart-and-the-vitality-of-media-9780295990088","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}