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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…

This photo depicts a stuffed fawn on a white pedestal with a center light on it. The fawn has metal rods sticking out it's legs and surrounding it. Becoming Animal at the Mass MoCA looked at nonhuman life and agency in art.

This photo has a large container sitting on what looks like a wooden table with organs growing inside clear container with blue liquid inside. Wetware: Art, Agency, Animation at the Beall Center for Art + Technology showcased works where artists…

This photo showcases the Bio Art pamphlet from the Altered Realities exposition at the ArtScience Museum in Singapore which addresses genetic engineering's ethical and social dimensions.