Index

Table of contents: 

INTRODUCTION 13 

CHAPTER 1: REVIVIFICATION 21 

Guy Ben-Ary, Nathan Thompson, Stuart Hodgetts and Matt Gingold 

Interlude I: The making of Revivification, p. 50-101 


CHAPTER 2: MUSIC, AN EVOLUTIONARY IMPERATIVE 103 

Alan R. Harvey 

Interlude 2: Portrait of an artist (Alvin Lucier), p. 112-115 

CHAPTER 3: STAYING ALIVE: CYBERNETIC SEANCES AND POSTHUMOUS PERFORMERS 117 

Darren Moore and Steve Dixon 

Interlude 3: Fluorescence staining, neural networks, p. 136-143 

CHAPTER 4: BACK TO LIFE: AUTOMATICITY AND ORGANISM IN REVIVIFICATION 145 

G. Douglas Barrett 

CHAPTER 5: IN VITRO INTELLIGENCE AND THE EMERGENCE OF ALTERNATIVE COGNITIVE PARADIGMS 181 

Guy Ben-Ary and Nathan Thompson 

Interlude 4: Installation view, Revivification, p. 208-239 

CHAPTER 6: THINKING OUTSIDE THE SKULL: SCIENTIFIC FOUNDATIONS OF CEREBRAL ORGANOIDS AND ETHICAL FRONTIERS 241 

Stuart Hodgetts 

Interlude 5: Fluorescence staining, neural networks, p. 262-269 

CHAPTER 7: CELLULAR PERFORMANCE AND THE PLASTIC AGENCY OF CEREBRAL ORGANOIDS 271 

Jennifer Johung 

Interlude 6: Failed experiment (ghost in the machine), p. 284-289 

CHAPTER 8: MACHINES TO THINK AND PLAY WITH: REVIVIFICATION, POSTMORTEM PLAY AND THE SPECULATIVE ETHICS OF SONIC SENTIENCE 291 

Kirsten Hudson 

CHAPTER 9: LIVING ECHOES: NEUROETHICS AND THE CELLULAR PERFORMANCE OF ALVIN LUCIER  325 

Karen Rommelfanger 

CHAPTER 10: UNTITLED CHAPTER 2025.07.FINAL.MASTER.V14.DOCX 355 

Matt Gingold 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 367 

IMAGE CREDITS 380 

BIOGRAPHIES 385 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 395 

 

donated by: 

Guy Ben-Ary