Bioart Kitchen: Art, Feminism and Technoscience (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781784534134)

What do new technologies taste like? A growing number of contemporary artists are working with food, live materials and scientific processes, in order to explore and challenge the ways in which manipulation of biological materials informs our cooking and eating. 'Bioart', or biological art, uses biotech methods to manipulate living systems, from tissues to ecologies. While most critiques of bioart emphasise the influences of new media, digital media, and genetics, this book takes a bold, alternative approach. Bioart Kitchen explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, namely: home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.

Author: Lindsay Kelley
ISBN-10: 1784534137
ISBN-13: 9781784534134
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 03/07/2016
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.50w x 0.90d