English 680V: Visual Rhetoric in a Technological Age (Purdue)

(I posted this as a comment on a post made many weeks ago, so I'm making it available here as well)
If anyone wants to borrow it to copy an essay, just let me know.

Telepresence and Bio Art: Networking Humans, Rabbits and Robots, by Eduardo Kac.

This guy actually genetically engineered a bunny to glow in the dark.

From the back cover:
"For nearly two decades Eduardo Kac has been at the cutting edge of media art, first inventing early online artworks for the web and continuously developing new art forms that involve telecommunications and robotics as a new platform for art. Interest in telepresence, also known as telerobotics, exploded in the 1990s, and remains an important development in media art. Since that time, Kac has increasingly moved into the fields of biology and biotechnology.

"Telepresence and Bio Art is the first book to document the evolution of bio art and the aesthetic development of Kac, the creator of the "artist's gene" as well as the controversial glow-in-the-dark, genetically engineered rabbit Alba. Kac covers a broad range of topics within media art, including telecommunications media, interactive systems and the Internet, telematics and robotics, and the contact between electronic art and biotechnology. Addressing emerging and complex topics, this book will be essential reading for anyone interested in contemporary art."

Table of contents:
I. Telecommunications, Dialogism, and Internet Art
1. An Aesthetics of Telecommunications (1992)
2. The Internet and the Future of Art (1997)
3. Beyond the Screen: Interactive Art (1998)
4. Negotiating Meaning: The Dialogic Imagination in Electronic Art (1999)

II. Telepresence Art and Robotics
5. Towards Telepresence Art (1992)
6. Telepresence Art (1993)
7. Telepresence Art on the Internet (1996)
8. The Origin and Development of Robotic Art (1997)

And it goes on to articles published in 2002, but that seems like the most relevant stuff.
oh, and Chapter 11. The Emergence of Biotelematics and Biorobotics: Integrating Biology, Information Processing, Networking and Robotics (1997)