Concretization, Associated Milieus and Aestheticization of Objects in Bio-Art

Leonardo ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-193
Author(s):  
Jongcheon Shin ◽  
Joonsung Yoon
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Biological Objects ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Gilbert Simondon

This article explores an ensemble of technical objects and biological objects in bio-art and proposes aesthetic values that the ensemble reveals. French philosopher Gilbert Simondon considered technical objects carefully in the 1950s. In his study, he was alert to an assimilation of technical objects to biological objects. In our time, the development of molecular biology and genetic engineering offers evidence that technical objects are closely linked to biological objects. The process of concretizing technical objects and biological objects is latent in works of bio-art, which therefore can realize aesthetic potentials that technical objects and biological objects imply.

Molecular biology of mosquito vitellogenesis: from basic studies to genetic engineering of antipathogen immunity

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (10) ◽  
pp. 1275-1286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander S. Raikhel ◽  
Vladimir A. Kokoza ◽  
Jinsong Zhu ◽  
David Martin ◽  
Sheng-Fu Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Basic Studies

WHEAT PROTEIN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING: IMPLICATIONS FOR QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

1995 ◽  
pp. 199-205
Author(s):  
P.R. Shewry ◽  
A.S. Tatham ◽  
J. Greenfield ◽  
N.G. Halford ◽  
S. Thompson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Improvement ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Wheat Protein

Mechanology, Mindstorms, and the Genesis of Robots

2018 ◽  
pp. 120-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Chesher
Keyword(s):  
Embodied Cognition ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Educational Robotics ◽  
Learning Mathematics ◽  
Robotics Concepts ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Gilbert Simondon

This chapter examines the emergence of educational robotics, drawing on the philosophy of technology of Gilbert Simondon. In the 1950s, Simondon argued that the dominant understandings of technology are personified in the popular imaginings of the robot. These attitudes are polarised between simple instrumentalism, and dystopian anxiety about technology overcoming humankind. To improve the conceptualisation of technics he took an approach called mechanology, developing a suite of concepts that grasped technology in new ways: technological genesis; the margin of indetermination; lineages of abstract and concrete technologies; and the associated milieu. These concepts are useful in understanding the tradition of educational robotics starting in the 1970s, with Seymour Papert's ‘turtle' robot serving as a resource for learning mathematics. Since the 1980s, LEGO's Mindstorms kits have introduced learners and consumers to robotics concepts. Since the 1990s, theorists of embodied cognition in the 2000s have made use of Mindstorms to draw attention to the limits of symbolic intelligence.

The process of revitalisation of old words

Terminology ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rita Temmerman
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Special Case ◽  
Special Language

This article reports on part of a larger project on neologisms in the field of biotechnology. The research concentrates on English neologisms and how they influence the Dutch special language of molecular biology and genetic engineering. The origin of "splicing " is traced in its new usage in biotechnology, and the realisation of the associated concepts in Dutch is examined as a special case of limited borrowing in secondary term formation.

scholarly journals Molecular Pharmacognosy: A new Borderline Discipline

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 1934578X0900401
Author(s):  
Lu-Qi Huang ◽  
Yuan Yuan ◽  
Guang-Hong Cui ◽  
Zhu-Bo Dai ◽  
Pei-Gen Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Genetic Engineering ◽  
Molecular Marker ◽  
Active Compound ◽  
Interdisciplinary Science ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Wild Resources ◽  
Crude Drugs ◽  
Marker Assay

Pharmacognosy has developed rapidly in recent years and now represents a highly interdisciplinary science. At the boundary between pharmacognosy and molecular biology, molecular pharmacognosy has developed as a new borderline discipline. Using the method and technology of molecular biology, molecular pharmacognosy focuses on resolving a wide range of challenging problems, such as distinguishing herbal and animal drug populations by molecular marker assay, conserving and utilizing wild resources on the basis of knowledge of genetic diversity, investigating the mechanism of active compound accumulation and obtaining new resources with higher quality through genetic engineering. Recent research results show that molecular pharmacognosy has extended the scope of pharmacognostical science and plays an important role in the safe and efficient usage of crude drugs.

scholarly journals Micropropagation, genetic engineering, and molecular biology of Populus

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. B. Klopfenstein ◽  
Y. W. Chun ◽  
M. -S. Kim ◽  
M. A. Ahuja ◽  
M. C. Dillon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Molecular Biology ◽  
Genetic Engineering
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