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Synthetic Aesthetics
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Author : Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2017-01-06
Synthetic Aesthetics written by Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-06 with Science categories.
As synthetic biology transforms living matter into a medium for making, what is the role of design and its associated values? Synthetic biology manipulates the stuff of life. For synthetic biologists, living matter is programmable material. In search of carbon-neutral fuels, sustainable manufacturing techniques, and innovative drugs, these researchers aim to redesign existing organisms and even construct completely novel biological entities. Some synthetic biologists see themselves as designers, inventing new products and applications. But if biology is viewed as a malleable, engineerable, designable medium, what is the role of design and how will its values apply? In this book, synthetic biologists, artists, designers, and social scientists investigate synthetic biology and design. After chapters that introduce the science and set the terms of the discussion, the book follows six boundary-crossing collaborations between artists and designers and synthetic biologists from around the world, helping us understand what it might mean to 'design nature.' These collaborations have resulted in biological computers that calculate form; speculative packaging that builds its own contents; algae that feeds on circuit boards; and a sampling of human cheeses. They raise intriguing questions about the scientific process, the delegation of creativity, our relationship to designed matter, and, the importance of critical engagement. Should these projects be considered art, design, synthetic biology, or something else altogether? Synthetic biology is driven by its potential; some of these projects are fictions, beyond the current capabilities of the technology. Yet even as fictions, they help illuminate, question, and even shape the future of the field.
Chromatic Algorithms
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Author : Carolyn L. Kane
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2014-08-13
Chromatic Algorithms written by Carolyn L. Kane and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-13 with Science categories.
These days, we take for granted that our computer screens—and even our phones—will show us images in vibrant full color. Digital color is a fundamental part of how we use our devices, but we never give a thought to how it is produced or how it came about. Chromatic Algorithms reveals the fascinating history behind digital color, tracing it from the work of a few brilliant computer scientists and experimentally minded artists in the late 1960s and early ‘70s through to its appearance in commercial software in the early 1990s. Mixing philosophy of technology, aesthetics, and media analysis, Carolyn Kane shows how revolutionary the earliest computer-generated colors were—built with the massive postwar number-crunching machines, these first examples of “computer art” were so fantastic that artists and computer scientists regarded them as psychedelic, even revolutionary, harbingers of a better future for humans and machines. But, Kane shows, the explosive growth of personal computing and its accompanying need for off-the-shelf software led to standardization and the gradual closing of the experimental field in which computer artists had thrived. Even so, the gap between the bright, bold presence of color onscreen and the increasing abstraction of its underlying code continues to lure artists and designers from a wide range of fields, and Kane draws on their work to pose fascinating questions about the relationships among art, code, science, and media in the twenty-first century.
The Elusive Synthesis Aesthetics And Science
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Author : A.I. Tauber
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Elusive Synthesis Aesthetics And Science written by A.I. Tauber and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
The tension between art and science may be traced back to the Greeks. What became "natural philosophy" and later "science" has traditionally been posed as a fundamental alternative to poetry and art. It is a theme that has commanded central attention in Western thought, as it captures the ancient conflict of Apollo and Dionysus over what deserves to order our thought and serve as the aspiration of our cultural efforts. The modern schi sm between art and science was again clearly articulated in the Romantic period and seemingly grew to a crescendo fifty years aga as a result of the debate concerning atomic power. The discussion has not abated in the physical sciences, and in fact has dramatically expanded most prominently into the domains of ecology and medicine. Issues concerning the role of science in modern society, although heavily political, must be regarded at heart as deeply embedded in our cultural values. Although each generation addresses them anew, the philosophical problems which lay at the foundation of these fundamental concerns always appear fresh and difficult. This anthology of original essays considers how science might have a greater commonality with art than was perhaps realized in a more positivist era. The contributors are concerned with how the aesthetic participates in science, both as a factor in constructing theory and influencing practice. The collec tion is thus no less than a spectrum of how Beauty and Science might be regarded through the same prism.
Synthetic Worlds
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Author : Esther Leslie
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2006-01-16
Synthetic Worlds written by Esther Leslie and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-16 with Science categories.
This revealing study considers the remarkable alliance between chemistry and art from the late eighteenth century to the period immediately following the Second World War. Synthetic Worlds offers fascinating new insights into the place of the material object and the significance of the natural, the organic, and the inorganic in Western aesthetics. Esther Leslie considers how radical innovations in chemistry confounded earlier alchemical and Romantic philosophies of science and nature while profoundly influencing the theories that developed in their wake. She also explores how advances in chemical engineering provided visual artists with new colors, surfaces, coatings, and textures, thus dramatically recasting the way painters approached their work. Ranging from Goethe to Hegel, Blake to the Bauhaus, Synthetic Worlds ultimately considers the astonishing affinities between chemistry and aesthetics more generally. As in science, progress in the arts is always assured, because the impulse to discover is as immutable and timeless as the drive to create.
Synthetic
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Author : Sophia Roosth
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2017-03
Synthetic written by Sophia Roosth and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03 with Science categories.
In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from mechanical and electrical engineering and computer science resolved that if the aim of biology was to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation. Sophia Roosth, a cultural anthropologist, takes us into the world of these self-named synthetic biologists who, she shows, advocate not experiment but manufacture, not reduction but construction, not analysis but synthesis. Roosth reveals how synthetic biologists make new living things in order to understand better how life works. What we see through her careful questioning is that the biological features, theories, and limits they fasten upon are determined circularly by their own experimental tactics. This is a story of broad interest, because the active, interested making of the synthetic biologists is endemic to the sciences of our time."
The Synthetic Absolute
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Author : Thomas Alfred McFarland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
The Synthetic Absolute written by Thomas Alfred McFarland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with categories.
From Fingers To Digits
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Author : Margaret A. Boden
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2019-07-16
From Fingers To Digits written by Margaret A. Boden and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-16 with Social Science categories.
Essays on computer art and its relation to more traditional art, by a pioneering practitioner and a philosopher of artificial intelligence. In From Fingers to Digits, a practicing artist and a philosopher examine computer art and how it has been both accepted and rejected by the mainstream art world. In a series of essays, Margaret Boden, a philosopher and expert in artificial intelligence, and Ernest Edmonds, a pioneering and internationally recognized computer artist, grapple with key questions about the aesthetics of computer art. Other modern technologies—photography and film—have been accepted by critics as ways of doing art. Does the use of computers compromise computer art's aesthetic credentials in ways that the use of cameras does not? Is writing a computer program equivalent to painting with a brush? Essays by Boden identify types of computer art, describe the study of creativity in AI, and explore links between computer art and traditional views in philosophical aesthetics. Essays by Edmonds offer a practitioner's perspective, considering, among other things, how the experience of creating computer art compares to that of traditional art making. Finally, the book presents interviews in which contemporary computer artists offer a wide range of comments on the issues raised in Boden's and Edmonds's essays.
Metaplasticity In Virtual Worlds Aesthetics And Semantic Concepts
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Author : Mura, Gianluca
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2010-11-30
Metaplasticity In Virtual Worlds Aesthetics And Semantic Concepts written by Mura, Gianluca and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-30 with Social Science categories.
The concept of virtual worlds is strongly related to the current innovations of new media communication.ÿ As such, it is increasingly imperative to understand the criteria for creating virtual worlds as well as the evolution in system architecture, information visualization and human interaction. Meta-plasticity in Virtual Worlds: Aesthetics and Semantics Concepts provides in-depth coverage of the state-of-the-art among the best international research experiences of virtual world concept creations from a wide range of media culture fields, at the edge of artistic and scientific inquiry and emerging technologies. Written for professionals, researchers, artists and designers, this text is a perfect companion for those who want to improve their understanding of the strategic role of virtual worlds within the development of digital communication.
The Elusive Synthesis
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Author : A. I. Tauber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014-01-15
The Elusive Synthesis written by A. I. Tauber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-15 with categories.
Aesthetic Computing
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Author : Paul A. Fishwick
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2006
Aesthetic Computing written by Paul A. Fishwick and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Aesthetics categories.
The application of the theory and practice of art to computer science: how aesthetics and art can play a role in computing disciplines.