Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Data made flesh : the material poiesis of informatics / Phillip Thurtle and Robert Mitchell -- Reading the "sensible" body : medicine, philosophy, and semiotics in eighteenth-century France / Anne C. Vila -- Man and horse in harmony / Elisabeth Leguin -- Breeding and training bastards : distinction, information, and inheritance in gilded age trotting horse breeding / Phillip Thurtle -- Desiring information and machines / Mark Poster -- LSDNA : consciousness expansion and the emergence of biotechnology / Richard Doyle -- $ell : body wastes, information, and commodification / Robert Mitchell -- The virtual surgeon : new practices for an age of medialization / Timothy Lenoir -- The bride stripped bare to her data : information flow + digibodies / Mary Flanagan -- A feeling for the cyborg / Kathleen Woodward -- If you won't shoot me, at least delete me! Performance art from 1960s wounds to 1990s extensions / Bernadette Wegenstein -- Flesh and metal : reconfiguring the mindbody in virtual environments / N. Katherine Hayles -- Gene(sis) / Steve Tomasula -- Transgenic art online / Eduardo Kac -- Gene(sis) : contemporary art explores human genomics / Robin Held.