Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Living in Artworks in Sociocultural and Historical Contexts -- Bibliography -- Part One: humans - cosmos/culture - nature -- The Place of Martyrs -- Curiosity and voyeurism -- The artist as pornographer -- "Hottentot Venus" -- Venus from our home -- Bio‐crafts -- Travelling cemeteries -- Intermediaries -- Are we all necrophiliacs? -- Illations -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- Body Ornamentation in Pre‐Columbian America -- Painting the bodies, wearing feathers, dyeing and manipulating the teeth -- Manipulation of the cranium -- Interpretation of the findings -- Summary -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- The Snake and the Flying Fox -- Body permeability, metabolization and ordeal in the Samoan Islands (Western Polynesia) -- Parthenogenesis, endosymbiosis and interspecies mating in Aorigi (Eastern Solomon Islands) -- Concluding remarks -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- Part Two: animals and human animals -- Bowerbirds and Their Bowers -- On a handful of human gazes over bowerbirds and their bowers -- Animal architecture -- Sculpture: Why not land art (or bowerbird installations)? -- As if painting with flowers... or bits of plastic -- Dancing with the bowerbirds -- Glimpses of bowerbird gazes -- Bibliography -- Films -- List of Figures -- Animal Architecture in Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling's Philosophy of Art -- The System of the Philosophy of Art and architecture -- Cosmic animal and the music -- Animal unconsciousness and the shell -- City and the work of art -- Bibliography -- From Beast to Machine -- "Mundus universus exercet ursiludium" -- "Mundus inversus" - "mundus mixtus" -- "… ac si cadaver essent" -- "Duo corpora animalis" -- Bibliography -- Sources -- List of figures -- Part Three: arts - science - technology -- Duelling Epistemologies -- On bio art and the living.

Introduction -- Reflecting situated knowledges -- How neoliberal mechanisms form research -- Hacking heteropatriarchal medical practices -- Exploring Human‐plant Relationships -- Hacking the river and molecular fluids -- Watery Ecologies and Artistic Research -- Final note -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- On the Ecologies of Contemporary Art -- Power Plants and Variants -- Ecologies of technology and contemporary art -- Mixed techno‐geographical environments -- Toward an aesthetics of the non‐conscious -- Bibliography -- Online resources -- List of figures -- Crosscutting Arts, Science and Technologies -- Making phenomena visible: human invisible pollution and interferences -- Towards an enriched presence and a careful listening to our environments -- Citizen participation and environmental public policies -- Immersive installations between arts, sciences and technologies -- Bibliography -- List of figures -- Author Biographies.