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Charissa N. Terranova
Charissa N. Terranova is a writer and educator who researches complex biological systems from a cultural purview, focusing on the history of evolutionary theory, biology, and biocentrism in art, architecture, and design. She is author of Art as Organism: Biology and the Evolution of the Digital Image (2016) and Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art (2014), and coeditor with Meredith Tromble of The Routledge Companion to Biology in Art and Architecture (2016). She also edited a two-volume issue of the journal Technoetic Arts on “complexism” (2016). Terranova is currently coediting with Ellen K. Levy D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture: From Forces to Forms, forthcoming from Bloomsbury Press, 2019, and writing a monograph titled Morphogenic Modernism: How Art, Science, and Design Made the British Bauhaus. Terranova is Professor of Aesthetic Studies at the University of Texas, Dallas.