Bio Art: Altered Realities

Publisher Marketing: A contextual introduction traces the roots of bio artistic practice, followed by four thematic chapters: Altering Nature, Experimental Identity and Mediums, Visualizing Scale and Scope, and Redefining Life. The chapters cover the key areas in which biotechnology has had an impact on today s world, including ecology, biomedicine, designer genomes, and changing approaches to evolutionary theory, and include profiles of the work of sixty artists, collectives, and organizations from around the world. Interviews with eight leading bio artists and technologists provide deeper insight into the ideas and methods of this new breed of creative practitioners. "

Contributor Bio:  Myers, William William Myers is a writer, teacher, and curator based in Amsterdam. He has worked for theMuseum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, theGuggenheim, and Genspace, the first community biotech lab in the United States. His writing has appeared in Metropolis magazine, The Architect s Newspaper, and New York Magazine.