Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere Jones Caroline A.
Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere Jones Caroline A. Essays, conversations, selected texts, and a rich collection of thought-provoking artworks celebrate a revolution in bio art. Are…
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Symbionts: Contemporary Artists and the Biosphere Jones Caroline A.
Essays, conversations, selected texts, and a rich collection of thought-provoking artworks celebrate a revolution in bio art. Are we merely "mammalian weeds," as evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis put it? Expertly designed by Omnivore and printed on special papers, including chlorophyll cover and crush citrus and crush cocoa pages.The texts and artworks in Symbionts provoke a necessary conversation about our species and its relation to the planet.
Symbionts reflects on a recent revolution in bio art that departs from the late-1990s code-oriented experiments to embrace entanglement and symbiosis ("with-living"). Or are we partners in producing and maintaining the biosphere, as she also suggested? Combining documentation of contemporary artworks with texts by leading thinkers, Symbionts, which accompanies an exhibition at MIT List Visual Arts Center,