Series: Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design

When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving. The first book to trace the story of British organic modernism, this ground-breaking open access study tells the story of a collective culture of artists, scientists, and designers in the 20th century united by a holistic understanding of the organic world and...

In a new era of global virology that requires novel methodologies to improve the comprehension of viruses and viral phenomena, Viral Behaviors explores the cultural, material, and artistic significance of viral agents. Across a rich variety of case studies stemming from different areas of interest—covering literature, the graphic arts and scientific visualization, as well as performance, installation and bioart—this book...

This book examines the history and future of space as a site of social justice and gender equality. Rather than simply a platform for imagining the future, it cultivates alternative modes of inquiry around space as a possible speculative platform for social and cultural enquiry. Bringing together essayistic reflections, artworks, and interviews with space scientists, engineers, and astronauts past and...

How did scientists, artists, designers, manufacturers and amateur enthusiasts experience and value the sea and its products? Taking a fresh approach to oceanic history, Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture brings together material culture, oceanography, and environmental history to uncover marine object and display histories and the role they played in nineteenth-century culture. Scientific exploration, colonial expansion, industrialization,...