This work delves into the innovative realm of metabolic arts, examining the intricate relationships between food, ingestion, and digestion. It offers a unique perspective on how these processes shape our understanding of nutrition and health, blending scientific inquiry with artistic expression. Through this exploration, the book invites readers to reconsider their relationship with food and its impact on the body and mind.
What do new technologies taste like? A growing number of contemporary artists are working with food, live materials and scientific processes, in order to explore and challenge the ways in which manipulation of biological materials informs our cooking and eating. 'Bioart', or biological art, uses biotech methods to manipulate living systems, from tissues to ecologies. While most critiques of bioart emphasise the influences of new media, digital media and genetics, this book takes a bold, alternative approach.Bioart Kitchen explores a wide spectrum of seemingly unconnected subjects, which, when brought together, offer a more inclusive, expansive history of bioart, home economics; the feminist art of the 1970s; tissue culture methodologies; domestic computing; and contemporary artistic engagements with biotechnology.