The panel will explore a range of approaches to biotechnology that includes art as a form of research, of philosophy, and of critique. In addition to traditional media (e.g., installations and representations) and dryware (e.g., digital technologies and visualization tools), artists increasingly use wetware (e.g., biological material) by adopting methodologies of genetic engineering to create new life forms (transgenic art). Artists now employ concepts that envision DNA as "information" and as a "code of life" not just as a metaphor but as a new model of art production that manipulates genetic information.