ESCI-BioArt Award

The ESCI Award for Excellence in Clinical Science 2006.

Evidence-based medicine and molecular medicine have both been influential in biomedical research in the last 15 years. Despite following largely parallel routes to date, the goals and principles of evidence-based and molecular medicine are complementary and they should be converging. I define molecular evidence-based medicine as the study of medical information that makes sense of the advances ...

Bioart.

Bioart is a creative practice that adapts scientific methods and draws inspiration from the philosophical, societal, and environmental implications of recombinant genetics, molecular biology, and biotechnology. Some bioartists foster inter- disciplinary relationships that blur distinctions between art and science. Others emphasize critical responses to emerging trends in the life sciences. Sinc...

ESCI-555 Lecture Notes: Parameterized Convection

Simondon, Bioart and the Milieu of Biotechnology

After a half-century of neglect in the English-speaking world, Gilbert Simondon’s philosophy of technology seems finally poised to make its way across the Atlantic. Spurred in part by Gilles Deleuze’s, Félix Guattari’s, and Bernard Stiegler’s engagement with Simondon’s oeuvre, and in part by translations of Simondon’s work that have recently become available (albeit largely still only on the in...

eCAM: Proteomics, BioArt and Integrative Medicine?

For 2010, we now begin the 10th year of the 21st century and eCAM has occupied five of them. eCAM covers have presented art to focus on some of the cultures, where integrative medicine was born and still thrives side by side with western medicine. These have been represented by art from Japan, Korea, India, Italy, China. Other vibrant cultures where CAM flourishes were not intentionally omitted...