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Artificial Life
The Art of Automating Living Systems
Series: Vignettes
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In today's world, we find ourselves repeatedly evaluating whether things are real or "fake" in ways that often depend on the distinction between that which is living and that which merely appears to be so. This question seems to require continuous revaluation with each major technological...
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In today's world, we find ourselves repeatedly evaluating whether things are real or "fake" in ways that often depend on the distinction between that which is living and that which merely appears to be so. This question seems to require continuous revaluation with each major technological shift.
Artificial Life is concerned with the aesthetic facets of artificial life. It argues that the boundary between the living and the non-living, the real and the fake, the natural and the artificial, are continuously constructed and re-constructed via aesthetic means. These boundaries determine the content of the category of "life", and it is the realm of the aesthetic that determines our understanding of these boundaries.
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Pre-orderArtificial Life
In today's world, we find ourselves repeatedly evaluating whether things are real or "fake" in ways that often depend on the distinction between that which is living and that which merely appears to be so. This question seems to require continuous revaluation with each major technological shift. Artificial Life is concerned with the aesthetic facets of artificial life. It argues...Paperback$2699Unit price /UnavailableOut 27 Oct 2026Pre-order
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ISBN: 9781760803452
Publisher: UWA Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 27 October 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: UWA Publishing
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 120.0mm
Height: 165.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 200
About the Author
Oron Catts is an artist researcher, Head of SymbioticA, and Director of the UWA Institute of Advanced Studies, whose work focuses on the shifting relations and perceptions of life in the light of new knowledge and its applications.
Sarah Collins is a cultural historian at UWA whose research focuses on the relationship between culture, technology, and broader intellectual and political currents.
Elizbeth Stephens is in cultural studies at the UQ, where her research examines the history and culture of work, productivity and fatigue.
Ionat Zurr is an artist researcher working at UWA who is considered to be a pioneer and a leader in the field of Biological Arts.
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