Index

Table of Contents
Foreword and Acknowledgements 5

Art and the Biological Sublime in the 21st Century 8 Regime Rapp & Christian de Lutz

[macrolbiologies I: the biosphere 12

A Cinematic Archaeology of the Biosphere I The Phenomenon of the Postnatural I Thinking Landscape - Between Utopia and Dystopia I Aesthetic Geographies -Reflecting Urban Nature through Art and Science

[macro]biologies II: organisms 26

Reading the Aesthetics of Science I Aquatic Art Laboratories - On Native and Invasive Species I Encountering Amphibians - Between Art, Science and Eco Action

[microbiologies I: the bacterial sublime 38 Communicating Bacteria - Developing a Bacteriocentric View

[micro]biologies II: TrpojTEo/ proteo 46 At the Origin of Life - Entering Molecular Space

The macrotbiologies] & [micro] biologies Library 52

Rhythms of a Living World 60 Katya Gardea Browne

The Center for PostNatural History 62 Richard Pell

Nature and Us - Between Boundless Desires and Limited Compassion 64 Mathias Kessler

Mapping the Urban Grind Mill 66 Alexandra Regan Toland

Petri's Panoply 68 Suzanne Anker

BioBASE - The Eco Utopian Agent 70 Maja Smrekar

The Cry of Silent Forms 72 Brandon Ballengee

The Bacterial Sublime 74 Anna Dumitriu

wpwTEO / proteo 76 Joanna Hoffmann

Reflecting my Artistic Practice and Collaborating with Art Laboratory Berlin 79 Pinar Yoldas

Biostrike as Soil Art: Biotech Guerrillas in the Post-Antibiotic Age 83 Denisa Kera

Under the Surface, under the Skin. The Use of Synthetic Biology within the Artistic Practice of C-LAB 93 Desiree Forster

Biographies 94
Imprint and Photo Credits  98