[Leonardo/ISAST Network] News from the Leonardo Book Series at MIT Press

[Leonardo/ISAST]

To: Leonardo Network
From: Sean Cubitt, Editor-in-Chief of Leonardo Book Series and Roger 
Malina, Leonardo Executive Editor

We would like to bring to your attention reduced prices for some 
recent titles in the Leonardo Book Series from MIT Press.

20% off new titles in new media including:

- New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, edited by 
Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss
- At A Distance: Precursors to Art and Activism on the Internet, 
edited by Annmarie Chandler and Norie Neumark
- The Visual Mind II, edited by Michele Emmer
- CODE: Collaborative Ownership and the Digital Economy, edited by 
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
- The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture, by Eugene 
Thacker

Use the code MW1015 during checkout on the MIT Press Web Site 
http://mitpress.mit.edu

Find information about all 26 books already published in the Leonardo 
Book Series:

http://www.leonardo.info/isast/leobooks.html

Book Authors: You will also find information on how to submit 
proposals to have your book project considered by the Leonardo Book 
Series Advisory Committee. The Advisory Committee members are: Annick 
Bureaud, Laura Marks, Anna Munster, Michael Punt, Sundar Sarukkai, 
Joel Slayton and Eugene Thacker.

also

COMING SOON:
Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond
edited by Eduardo Kac
Pre-order this title on the Leonardo Book Series website: 
http://leonardo.info/isast/leobooks/books/kac.html

Bio art is a new art form that has emerged from the cultural impact 
and increasing accessibility of contemporary biotechnology. Signs of 
Life is the first book to focus exclusively on art that uses 
biotechnology as its medium, defining and discussing the theoretical 
and historical implications of bio art and offering examples of work 
by prominent artists.

Bio art manipulates the processes of life; in its most radical form, 
it invents or transforms living organisms. It is not representational; 
bio art is in vivo. (A celebrated example is Eduardo Kac's own GFP 
Bunny, centered on "Alba," the transgenic fluorescent green rabbit.) 
The creations of bio art become a part of evolution and, provided they 
are capable of reproduction, can last as long as life exists on earth. 
Thus, bio art raises unprecedented questions about the future of life, 
evolution, society, and art.

The contributors to Signs of Life articulate the critical theory of 
bio art and document its fundamental works. The writers--who include 
such prominent scholars as Barbara Stafford, Eugene Thacker, and 
Dorothy Nelkin--consider the culture and aesthetics of biotechnology, 
the ethical and philosophical aspects of bio art, and biology in art 
history. The section devoted to artworks and artists includes George 
Gessert's Why I Breed Plants, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr's Semi-Living 
Art, Marc Quinn's Genomic Portrait, and Heather Ackroyd and Dan 
Harvey's Chlorophyll.

Eduardo Kac is an internationally renowned artist who has received 
critical acclaim for net and bio works including Genesis, GFP Bunny, 
and Move 36. His work has been widely exhibited and is in the 
permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the 
Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro, among others.

October 2006
The MIT Press
A Leonardo Book