Art + Science Now: How scientific research and technological innovation are becoming key to 21st-century aesthetics

Offers an overview of the art being made at the scientific research. This title shows how some of the world's most dynamic art is being produced not in museums, galleries and studios but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical and social questions connected with scientific and technological advances. In the twenty-first century, some of the most dynamic works of artare being produced not in the studio but in the laboratory, whereartists probe cultural, philosophical, and social questions connectedwith cutting-edge scientific and technological research. Their workranges across disciplines—microbiology, the physical sciences, informationtechnologies, human biology and living systems, kinetics, androbotics—taking in everything from eugenics and climate change toartificial intelligence.Art + Science Now provides an overview of this new strand ofcontemporary art, showcasing the best international work. Featuringsome 250 artists, it presents a broad range of projects, from body artto bioengineering of plants and insects, from computer-controlledvideo performances to large-scale visual and sound installations.

• | Author: Stephen Wilson
• | Publisher: Thames & Hudson Ltd
• | Publication Date: Jul 12, 2012
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780500289952
• | ISBN-10: 0500289956