Synthetic Aesthetics: Investigating Synthetic Biology’s Designs on Nature

March 21, 2014

(Times Higher Education) – Synthetic Aesthetics opens with an introduction to these ambitions from two leading lights of synthetic biology, Drew Endy and Alistair Elfick, and then examines them from a range of sceptical but stimulating viewpoints. We come to see the many ways the project blurs boundaries between nature and culture, living things and machines, science, art and design, biological and technological evolution.