Principal Investigator<\/strong>: Dr. Roberta Buiani<\/p>\n\n\n\n Funder<\/strong>: SSHRC Insight Development Grant<\/p>\n\n\n\n Project Description<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n Emergent <\/em>is a research creation project investigating ways in which we can better comprehend and eventually cope with new \"categories of the living\"- those newly emerging or newly created life forms that won\u2019t fit or will exceed the categories defined by traditional taxonomies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New life forms can reside in artificial environments and take the form of digital entities; they can be synthetic bacteria and other organisms manipulated in the lab; or entities undergoing serious mutations due to pollution and other anthropogenic causes, yet they survive and even thrive. Attempts to fit these new categories into preexisting containers cast doubts on the ability of individual disciplines to seize their complex formations and their porous boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The \u201cdigital creatures\u201d, \u201cgenetically manipulated organisms\u201d, and \u201cenvironmental mutants\u201d described above form three thematic guidelines leading to the question of: how is the emergence of these new life forms challenging traditional research methods and existing disciplinary containers? and how can research based on artistic practice and on collaboration across science and the arts help producing new ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Principal Investigator: Dr. Roberta Buiani Funder: SSHRC Insight Development Grant Project Description: Emergent is a research creation project investigating ways in which we can better comprehend and eventually cope with new \"categories of the living\"- those newly emerging or newly created life forms that won\u2019t fit or will exceed the categories defined by traditional taxonomies. New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":355,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n