Bio Art is a proliferating and mutant term. Biology's ascent to the status of 'hottest' physical science has been accompanied by, on the one hand, the inflationary use of biological metaphors in the scholarly disciplines that study culture and, on the other, a wide range of biotech procedures that are simultaneously providing artists with the themes for their work and the expressive media with which to realize them. As this has transpired, the evolution of the term "Bio Art" has somewhat resembled the recent hyperbolic career path of the gene-hype launched by techno-industrial special interest groups in the 1990s that, in the wake of its zenith in conjunction with the media frenzy surrounding the Human Genome Project, has been slowly subsiding in the last few years: Bio Art has not unfolded and developed in accordance with prescribed master codes of a determinant post-avant-garde manifesto; instead, it has been subject to a process of social drift and diverse influences from its aesthetic environment.

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