LIFE FORMS. Essays on the Artwork of Andreas Greiner, and the Display, Synthesis, and Simulation of Life.

Andreas Greiner’s art operates at the interface with the life sciences, raising the question: what forms does artificial life take? How does humankind intervene in processes of growth today by means of synthetic biology? How is the relationship between nature and culture shaped as a result? And what status does art occupy in the age of the Anthropocene? These questions stand at the centre of the work of Andreas Greiner (*1979), in which he interrogates the relationships of nature/technology/culture/art in ethical, social and ecologically critical terms. The volume places Andreas Greiner’s artistic works in dialogue with scholars and experts from a range of disciplines such as physics, computer science, biology, music and architecture. This leads into the interfaces and calls up the integral questions with which the artist is concerned, questions that are more pressing than ever now that quantum leaps are to be observed in the medical and biological field, in genetic engineering for example.