Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 4
3. Introduction
4. Managing creative disturbances 7
5. Creative mis/understandings: expectations, outcomes, and frictions in asymmetric art/science encounters 22
6. Newcotiana
7. About 35
8. Artist x Laboratory 38
9. Tobacco: a mass of atoms, a biofactory, and a generous friend 40
10. Tobacco research through different lenses: reflections on the influences of art in science 80
11. Sinfonia
12. About 87
13. Artist x Laboratory 90
14. Making music with enzymes 92
15. Rewriting the symphony of life with synthetic metabolism – can enzymes play music? 106
16. Madonna
17. About 115
18. Artist x Laboratory 118
19. Multiscalar forms of resistance: the molecular switch, the bacterium, the individual and the state 120
20. Towards a new covenant with nature – starred by environmental microorganisms 140
21. Artist x Laboratory 152
22. Souls from the deep: a survey through a sticky universe 154
23. Breathing life into inorganic alien matter 168
24. Afterword
25. Friction gains in art & science collaboration: more than noise 175
26. Contributors 191
27. Image Credits 196