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Negotiating the hybrid: art, theory and genetic technologies

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Over the past decade artists have increasingly turned to science in order to investigate technology’s effect. The move from hardware-based technologies to live organisms as media, raises ethical issues that the broader art community is addressing. This paper tracks the history of instrumental disengagement to determine when and how the gradual codification of life contributed to the eventual use of live organisms in art practice.

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  1. Teaching Faculty, Integrated Media Ontario College of Art and Design, 100 McCaul Street, Toronto, ON, M5T 1W1, Canada

    Caroline Seck Langill

  2.  , 464 Charlotte Street, Peterborough, ON, K9J 2W3, Canada

    Caroline Seck Langill

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Seck Langill, C. Negotiating the hybrid: art, theory and genetic technologies. AI & Soc 20, 49–62 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-005-0005-6

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