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Syllabus / DesignFrontiersS10
Design Frontiers In Biology and Materiality Structure: The course will be a mixture of design work- including physical building, electronics and bio experimentation, along with lectures, readings, discussion and critique. Students will be introduced to a number of fabrication techniques, bio design processes and new materials, and expected to produce physical prototypes for assignments. Through a combination of producing objects and engaging in critical reflection, students will be encouraged to develop a design practice which innovates technically in process and materials as well as situates their work in the context of contemporary culture and technology. Together with physical practice, students will document and share their projects through blogging and on-line social networks. Grading: Schedule January 25 Class 1 : Introduction NO baking soda volcanoes. February 1 Class 2: Phenomenology & Transformation February 8 Class 3 Smart Materials and Interaction February 15: NYU Holiday February 22 Class 4 : The Bio Body March 1: Class 5: Energy - alternatives & production methods March 8 Class 6: Bio Art March 22 Class 7: De-technologizing through biology March 29 Class 8: Synthetic Biology I April 5 Class 9: Synthetic Biology II April 12 Class 10: Bioethics, Intellectual Property, Open Source Biology April 19 Class 11: Final Project Discussion + individual progress crits April 26 Class 12: Final Project Presentations & Critique References & Resources Exploratorium Digital Library http://hypatia.exploratorium.edu:8080/Cumulus/Standard/SelectCatalog2.jsp Wall Street Journal on "biohacking" http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124207326903607931.html AP on DIYbio http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/25/do-it-yourself-dna-amateu_n_153489.html Seed Magazine: The Biohacking Hobbyist http://seedmagazine.com/news/2008/12/the_biohacking_hobbyist.php New Yorker: A Life of Its Own http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/28/090928fa_fact_specter VivoArts School for Transgenic Aesthetics http://vastal.waag.org/ Nature Biotechnology: From synthetic biology to biohacking: are we prepared? http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n12/full/nbt1209-1109.html The New Atlantis: The Promise and Perils of Synthetic Biology http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-promise-and-perils-of-synthetic-biology International Association of Synthetic Biology http://www.ia-sb.eu/go/synthetic-biology/synthetic-biology/biosafety-biosecurity/ FBI Biosecurity Conference http://cstsp.aaas.org/Building_Bridges_Around_Building_Genomes/relevantArticles.html George Gessert: http://www.viewingspace.com/genetics_culture/pages_genetics_culture/gc_w02/gc_w02_gessert.htm Catts, Oron (2002) Ed. The Aesthetics of Care, pub. SymbioticA, U.W.A.ISBN 1 74052 080 7. 1st Edition 2002, 2nd edition 2004. Tactical Biopolitics Art, Activism, and Technoscience, edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip, The MIT Press, 2008. Art in the Biotech Era, edited by Melentie Pandilovski 2006 Kac, Eduardo. Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond (Cambridge: MIT Press/Leonardo Books, 2007). Jens Hauser (ed.). sk-interfaces. Exploding borders - creating membranes in art, technology and society. Liverpool: University of Liverpool Press 2008 Oron Catts, Ionat Zurr Semi-Livings as Agents of Irony in Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity' Palgrave/Macmillan publication, edited by Sue Broadhurst. 2005 Art et Biotechnologies, edited by Louise Poissant and Ernestine Daubner, Presses de l’Universite du Quebec 2005 BioMediale: Contemporary Society and Genomic Culture book edited and curated by Dmitry Bulatov. Published by The National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad Branch, Russia) 2004. Oron Catts The Art of the Semi-Living in Live: Art and Performance, Tate Publishing 2004 L’art Biotech, Edited by Jens Hauser Le lieu unique France, 2003 |