Main entry:

Johung, Jennifer, author.

Title & Author:

Vital forms : biological art, architecture, and the dependencies of life / Jennifer Johung.

Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2019]
©2019

Description:

182 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : vital dependencies -- Vital synthesis : art, design, and synthetic biology -- Vital maintenance : the tissue culture and art project, and infrastructures of care -- Vital contexts : morphology, mutability, and Sabin+Jones Labstudio -- Vital ecologies : protocells and hylozoic ground -- Vital regeneration : the promise and potentiality of stem cells -- Epilogue : vital times.

Summary:

As living matter becomes more and more the domain of art and architecture, the life sciences are enabling a major cultural and aesthetic transformation. 'Vital Forms' explores how the intersection of biology, art, and architecture has transformed these disciplines, offering heretofore unimagined possibilities.0Using numerous case studies, Jennifer Johung explores how art and architecture are reimagining life on cellular and subcellular levels. In the process, she maps the constantly evolving dependencies that exist between objects, bodies, and environments. From Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr's Tissue Culture and Art Project, which developed "semi-living worry dolls," to Patricia Piccinini's imagined Still Life with Stem Cells, each chapter pairs a branch of contemporary biological inquiry with the artists who are revolutionizing it.0Examining cutting-edge developments in biotechnological research-including tissue-engineering, stem cell science, regenerative medicine, and more - 'Vital Forms' brings biological art and architecture into critical dialogue. Distinguished by its broad range and Johung's synthesizing talents, 'Vital Forms' makes powerful observations about how the unfolding dependencies between all kinds of matter are becoming vital to life in our age of biotechnological manipulations.

ISBN:

9781517903046 hardcover alkaline paper
1517903041 hardcover alkaline paper
9781517903053 paperback alkaline paper
151790305X paperback alkaline paper

Subject:

Art and biology.
Architecture and biology.
Life (Biology)
Art et biologie.
Architecture et biologie.
Vie (Biologie)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 306692
Call No.: BIB 252244
Status: Available