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Over the past decade artists have increasingly turned to science in order to investigate technology’s effect. The move from hardware-based technologies to live organisms as media, raises ethical issues that the broader art community is addressing. This chapter tracks the history of instrumental disengagement to determine when and how the gradual codification of life contributed to the eventual use of live organisms in art practice.
My mother doesn’t like meAnd neither do I have a sweetheartOh why can’t I just dieWhat should I do?
Johannes Brahms, Die Trauernde
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Langill, C.S. (2009). Negotiating the Hybrid: Art, Theory and Genetic Technologies. In: Gigliotti, C. (eds) Leonardo’s Choice. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2479-4_6
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