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- Title
Bacterial politics: autonomy, autopoiesis, bio art.
- Authors
Terranova, Charissa N.
- Abstract
Can the autonomy of art be conceived in terms of living bacterial agencies within contemporary bio art? Based on the work of Chilean biologists Humberto R. Maturana and Francisco J. Varela, Charissa N. Terranova argues that artists using bacteria in their work, such as Ken Rinaldo, Anna Dumitriu, Louise Mackenzie, and Paul Vanouse, set in relief microbiological life's autopoiesis, its self-creation, as a form of both autonomy and interconnection. Distinct from procreation, fitness, competition, survival, and evolution over deep time, life is defined by interconnection, endosymbiosis, symbiosis, Darwinian beauty, and evolution in real time.
- Subjects
AUTOPOIESIS; ENDOSYMBIOSIS; NUDITY; BIOLOGISTS; PRACTICAL politics; SYMBIOSIS
- Publication
Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, 2022, Issue 59, p24
- ISSN
1756-9575
- Publication type
Article