Index

INTRODUCTION
Dmitry Bulatov. Traveling into the Unknow                                        10

I. LABORATORY: science and technology
Svetlana Borinskaya. Genomics and Biotechnology: Science at the 
Beginning of the Third Millennium.                                               16
Mikhail Gelfand. Computational Genomics: from the Wet Lab
to Computer and Back.                                                            28
Irina Grigorjan, Vsevolod Makeev. Biochips and Industrial Biology.               40
Valery Shumakov, Alexander Tonevitsky. Xenotransplantation as
a Scientific and Ethic Problem.                                                  46
Abraham Iojrish. Legal Aspects of Gene Engineering.                              52
Pavel Tishchenko. Genomics: New Science in the New Cultural Situation.           60

II. FORUM: society and genomic culture
Eugene Thacker. Darwin's Waiting Room.                                           74
Critical Art Ensemble. The Promissory Rhetoric of 
Biotechnology in the Public Sphere.                                              86
SubRosa. Sex and Gender in the Biotech Century.                                  98
Ricardo Dominguez. Nano-Fest Destiny 3.0: Fragments from the Post-Biotech Era.   110
Birgit Richard. Clones and Doppelgangers. Multiplications and 
Reproductions of the Self in Film.                                               122
Sven Druehl. Chimaera Phylogeny: From Antiquity to the Present.                  138

III. TOPOLOGY: from biopolitics to bioaesthetics
Boris Groys. Art in the Age of Biopolitics.                                      164
Stephen Wilson. Art and Science as Cultural Acts.                                178
Melentie Pandilovski. On the Phenomenology of Consciousness, 
Technology, and Genetic Culture.                                                 192
Roy Ascott. Interactive Art: Doorway to the Post-Biological Culture.             200

IV. INTERACTION CODE: artificial life
Mark Bedau. Artificial Life Illuminates Human Hyper-creativity.                  216
Louis Bec. Artificial Life under Tension.                                        232
Alan Dorin. Virtual Animals in Virtual Environments.                             240
Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau. The Application of Artificial Life 
to Interactive Computer Installations.                                           256

V. MODERN THEATRE: ars genetica
George Gessert. A History of Art Involving DNA.                                  270
Kathleen Rogers. The Imagination of Matter.                                      290
Brandon Ballengee. The Origins of Artificial Selection.                          300
Marta de Menezes. The Laboratory as an Art Studio.                               314
Adam Zaretsky. Workhorse Zoo Art and Bioethics Quiz.                             322

VI. IMAGE TECHNOLOGY: ars chimaera                                              
Joe Davis. Monsters, Maps, Signals and Codes.                                    336
David Kremers. The Delbruck Paradox. Version 3.0.                                354
Eduardo Kac. GFP Bunny.                                                          360
Dmitry Bulatov. Ars Chimaera.                                                    374
Valery Podoroga. Rene Descartes and Ars Chimaera.                                392

VII. METABOLA: tissue culture and art
Ionat Zurr. Complicating Notions of Life - Semi-Living Entities.                 402
Oron Catts. Fragments of Designed Life - the Wet Palette of Tissue Engineering.  412

P.S.Dmitry Prigov. Speaking of Unutterable.                                      422

Wet art gallery                                                                  429
Biographies                                                                      461
Glossary                                                                         481   
Bibliography                                                                     488
Webliography                                                                     494