Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

We have always been transgenic

  • Original Article
  • Published:
AI & SOCIETY Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

This dialogue concerns the nature of ethical responsibility in contemporary art practice, and its relation to questions of creativity; the role of writing in shaping the perception of transgenic art and related practices; and the problems that may be associated with trusting artists to act with integrity in the unchartered waters of their enthusiastic engagement with genetic technologies.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Fig. 1
Fig. 2

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  • Abram D (1997) The spell of the sensuous: perception and language in a more-than-human world. Vintage, NY

    Google Scholar 

  • Davies G (2003) Editorial: a geography of monsters? Geoforum 34

  • Gigliotti C (2006) Leonardo’s choice: the ethics of artists working with genetic technologies. AI Soc 20.1

    Google Scholar 

  • Griffin D (1992) Animal minds. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

    Google Scholar 

  • Guattari F (1995) Chaosmosis. Power Pubications, Sydney

    Google Scholar 

  • Haraway D (1991) Manifesto for cyborgs: science, technology, and socialist feminism in the late twentieth century. In: Simians, cyborgs, and women: the reinvention of nature. Routledge, New York

  • Haraway D (1995) Foreword. In: Hables-Gray (ed) The cyborg handbook. Routledge, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Kroker A (2004) The Transgenic Art of Telebody. http://www.telebody.ws/KrokerOnTELEBODY2.doc

  • Wheale N (ed) (1995) The postmodern arts. Routledge, London, New York

    Google Scholar 

  • Wright R (2004) A short history of progress CBC Massey lecture series. Anasi Press, Toronto

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Reader in Contemporary Visual Culture Department of Humanities, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, PR1 2HE, UK

    Steve Baker

  2. Associate Professor School of Design Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, 1399 Johnston Street, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3R9, Canada

    Carol Gigliotti

Authors
  1. Steve Baker
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Carol Gigliotti
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Carol Gigliotti.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Baker, S., Gigliotti, C. We have always been transgenic. AI & Soc 20, 35–48 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-005-0001-x

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-005-0001-x

Keywords

Search

Navigation