Art as Organism

Charissa N. Terranova is Margaret M. McDermott Distinguished Chair in Art and Aesthetic Studies and Professor of Art and Architectural History at the University of Texas at Dallas, USA. She researches the relationship between culture and science, focusing on the history of evolutionary theory and biology in art and architecture. She is author of Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image (2016) and Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art (2014), and co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (2016), and the Biotechne series with Meredith Tromble.

• PrefaceIntroduction – The Haptic Unconscious: László Moholy-Nagy's Organismic AestheticsChapter 1 – Bauhaus Biology: The Beginnings of BiofunctionalismChapter 2 - Gyorgy Kepes and the Light image as Bio-Image: Pop Art-and-Science, Integration, and DistributionChapter 3 - The Distributed Image of the City: The Collaboration between Gyorgy Kepes and Kevin LynchChapter 4 – Wet Perception: Op Art and New Tendencies, between the Gestalt and Ecological PsychologyChapter 5 – The Digital Image in Art: The Generative Turn, Computational and Biological