Index

Contents
Foreword 8
Introduction 10

Life as We Don’t Know It
Alternative Biofacts – Life as we don’t (yet) know it 20
Markus Schmidt & Nediljko Budisa
Merry CRISPR 38
Bioart Society
Deep Data Prototypes 40
Andy Gracie
Xenological Life Potentials 42
Adriana Knouf
Curie’s Children (glow boys, radon daughters) 50
Bioart Society
I’am – Immortality’s Anti-Marta 52
Marta de Menezes & Luís Graça
Doing Away with Life – On Biophilosophy, the Non/Living, Toxic
Embodiment, and Reimagining Ethics 54
Marietta Radomska & Cecilia Åsberg
One Hundred Thousand Cities of the Sun 64
Crystal Bennes
Blck Vlvt 66
Bartaku
Radical Witnessing and the Scope of the Real 68
Erich Berger
Paradise in Mind – Living Landscape 82
Antero Kare

Convergences
Hybrid Ecology – To See The Forest For The Trees 86
Laura Beloff
HYBRID MATTERs 104
Bioart Society
Living Images, yeastograms 106
Johanna Rotko
Sensing Machines in Artistic Practice 108
Kasperi Mäki-Reinikka
Ars Bioarctica 120
Bioart Society
Maatuu uinuu henkii (Respiration Field) 122
Teemu Lehmusruusu
Machine Wilderness 124
Antti Tenetz, Ian Ingram & Theun Karelse
Making_Life 134
Bioart Society
Labor 136
Paul Vanouse
OSG: Mapping a Hormone Hyperobject 138
Rian Ciela Visscher Hammond
Ceramic Scar Tissue 148
Christina Stadlbauer
Dispersal 150
Paula Humberg

Learnings/Unlearnings
Forgotten Histories of DIYbio, Open, and Citizen Science:
Science of the People, by the People, for the People? 154
Denisa Kera
Manifestations 166
Leena Valkeapää
Lifepatch Interview 168
by Kira O’Reilly & Erich Berger
Field_Notes 180
Bioart Society
BioTehna + Vivarium – Towards the Aesthetics of Artifcial Life 182
Jurij Krpan
Star-Dust 192
Anu Osva
How to Educate Kids and Youngsters to Value Art and Science as
Equals – Pedagogy in Practice 194
Kristiina Ljokkoi & Tomi Slotte Dufva
Melliferopolis 208
Ulla Taipale & Christina Stadlbauer
Wombs 210
Margherita Pevere

Redraw and Refigure
Illuminating Multiplicity: Against the Unbearable Whiteness of Bioart 214
Heather Davis, Elaine Gan & Terike Haapoja
Splice/Liitos 220
Bioart Society
Mothers and Others – Insurgent Kinmaking as Distributed Reproduction 222
Ida Bencke
The Oracles 236
Mari Keski-Korsu
The Contract of Art that Deals with Life (Sciences) 238
Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr
What if this is the only world she knew? 244
Kira O’Reilly
subsensorialXYZ 246
Pia Lindman
Bioart, Aesthetic and Ineffable Existence 248
Helena Sederholm
PORK KANA CAR ROT 258
Lauri Linna

Glossary 260
Bioart Society 2008–2019 268
Notes 272
The Lost And Found Department 279