前言
视觉艺术和前沿生物科技的交集，成功扩展了生物学的研究导向。随着数位比特重新制定信息传递过程的改变，许多艺术家转而拥抱生物学体系。根据生物艺术术语的分类，其具有“湿”生命特性的艺术正在成为现代美学探索的一部分。除实验室生物标本外，艺术家们还致力于研究计算机、计算法、传统媒体和表演，以此提高公众对科学的参与度，并深化科技美学实践的参数。
由于生物学正经历崭新的黄金时代——锻造最先锋的艺术实践，乃至包容更具前瞻性的创意和蜕变的生物实体，为此，艺术家们都呈现出高度兴趣加入此变革行列。从生物组织工程到生物印刷再到智能材料的采用，生物艺术中细胞与基因蜕变的交响曲已经奏响。
谭力勤的《奇点：颠覆性的生物艺术》一书在此领域展开了广泛的讨论与研究，他将摩尔定律规律以及纳米机器人增强人类能力的技术扩展到了生物艺术研究领域。众所周知，生物学作为一门技术，它使生命代码在这一时代被广泛解读。谭一书阐述了生物艺术的发展简史，追溯了DNA作为分子和图谱融入艺术实践的方式，考察了微生物、生物光泽甚至蛋白质与人类文化范畴开展对话的手段。
就此而言，还需特别强调的是，每一科学突进都是平行展开的，它同时催促文化和美学涵义的重构。此现象在科学史发展中都已被证实和观察到，如今，它再次作为一种全球现象而萌发。
谭对生物艺术的深度探索，激发了大家对当今清晰艺术现实的重新认知。
The intersection of the visual arts art and advancing technologies has taken an expanded biological turn. As bits and bytes reformulate the processes by which information is transferred, many artists are embracing biology as a technical system. Classified under the term BioArt, works employing wet life processes are currently under aesthetic investigation. Along with lab protocols, artists are also working with computers, algorithms, traditional media and performance as ways to enhance the public's engagement with science as well as to deepen the parameters of aesthetic practices.
Since biology is now experiencing a renewed golden age, forgingstate-of-the art applications, and even more modern ideas and substances, it is no wonderthat artists too are interested in engaging with this profound change. From tissue engineering to bio-printing to techniques employing “smart materials”, the transformation of cellular symphonies has arrived.
LiQin Tan's Singularity: Subversive BioArt, casts a wide net in these regards.
Drawing on sources that range from Moore's Law concerningthe doubling of electronic circuits every year to the ways in which robotic apparatuses are augmenting human abilities, LiQin expands this vision into the biological realm. Aswe are all aware, biology is technology, understood in this age of living data. Presenting an overview of BioArt he traces the way in which DNA has been integrated into art practice as a molecule and as an image. Microbes, bio-luminescence and even proteins are examined in terms of the way they open dialogues with the cultural sphere.
In this regard, it should be noted that for every scientific proposition there are parallel, cultural and aesthetic ones. We have seen this throughout history and that moment is germinating again as a global phenomenon.
LiQin Tan's comprehensiveanalysis activates a new awareness of this distinct reality.