Alive: Designing Radical Life (Thames & Hudson) - Hardcover

Schwartzman, Madeline

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500026866 ISBN 13: 9780500026861

Verlag: Thames & Hudson IWUK, 2025

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A timely examination of a wide range of projects exploring the boundaries of what it means to be alive, speculating on what 'life' is, and how humankind will (or will not) fit into a new order of hybrid species: a sort of sci-fi guidebook to lab-built humans.

A silicone jellyfish with a rat's heart, a drone that smells using the antenna of a moth, wearables made from cultured human skin, an AI-populated digital snack bar in the metaverse. These projects and many more offer a mind-bending, head-turning vision of the future that Madeline Schwartzman demonstrates is just around the corner.

Curated from new developments in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, robotics, engineering, biology and art, this broad-ranging survey demonstrates the myriad ways in which our perception of what it means to be alive has dramatically changed. Where do we draw the new lines? Are there any boundaries we should not cross? And what if... ?

By examining these new 'beings', Alive maps out a vision of new partnerships, uncanny hybrids and collaborative intelligences, as science fiction rapidly becomes science fact.

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Madeline Schwartzman is an artist, writer, filmmaker, architect and educator who explores human narratives and the human sensorium through all of the above. She is also the author of See Yourself Sensing and See Yourself X.

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A timely examination of a wide range of projects exploring the boundaries of our existence.

How can a drone smell? Is a silicone jellyfish with a rat's heart "alive"? Things that once seemed impossible are now becoming not only possible but mainstream. In the coming years, nearly all realms of our existence, will involve experiments with human and non-human living tissue impacting the worlds of medicine, art, and design as well as our everyday lives, so it's about time we got to grips with what these ne

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Thames & Hudson IWUK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0500026866
• ISBN 13: 9780500026861
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Van Ditmar Boeken, VDB Sales; sales@vanditmar.nl; ; Hondiuslaan 44; Utrecht; 3528 AB; Niederlande