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This photo depicts a small round redish-orange object on a small metal plate. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr's projects further delve into the complexities of life and ethics. Their Semi-Living Steak presents lab-grown meat, questioning the morality of…

This photo depicts a dark room with a blue dot in the center with smaller green dots inside of it. Eduardo Kac's Genesis translates a biblical sentence into Morse code and then into DNA, creating a synthetic gene inserted into bacteria.

This photo depicts a man riding a machine with eight legs. Stelarc's Exoskeleton exemplifies this fusion by integrating a six-legged robotic suit with the human body, challenging traditional notions of bodily autonomy and control.

This photo depicts a white room with the door open with a large clear container with a green substance in it. There are also green hoses running all over the floor. Thomas Feuerstein’s Manna Machine IV uses algae photosynthesis to create paint,…

This image depicts two butterflies with genetically modified wings. Marte de Menezes’ Nature? alters butterfly wing patterns for artistic effect while maintaining genetic integrity

This photo depicts a skeleton made from plants. Neri Oxman’s Living Architecture integrates biological materials into adaptive, growing design structures.

This photo depicts a dark lab with a white table at the center and hat appears to be blood in a tube. There is also small tubes with blood running up to the ceiling. Ionat Zurr and Oron Catts’ Tissue Culture & Art Project grows living tissues into…

This photo depicts a person shaped object in a black body suit on the floor with roots growing all around them. Jae Rhim Lee’s Mushroom Death Suit is a burial suit seeded with mushroom spores that decompose the human body.

This photo portrays hundreds and rocks lined up in a row with each row increasing in height off the ground. Bennett’s Vibrant Matter encourages us to consider the agency of nonhuman actors, such as, tissues, organisms, and synthetic materials, in…

This photo depicts a woman with what appears to be a bobcat wrapped around her shoulders with sand dunes under her. Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto famously critiques the boundaries between human, animal, and machine. Her notion of the cyborg serves as a…