How scientific research and technological innovation are becoming key to 21st-century aesthetics. A groundbreaking overview of the art being made at the cutting edge of scientific research. The first illustrated book in its field, it show how some of the world's most dynamic art is being produced not in museums, galleries and studios but in the laboratory, where artists probe cultural, philosophical and social questions connected with scientific and technologial advances. Featuring the work of around 250 artists from the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, the USA, Japan and elsewhere, it presents a broad range of projects.