Annual Review of Anthropology Science/Art/Culture Through an Oceanic Lens Stefan Helmreich 1 and Caroline A. Jones 2 1 Anthropology Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA; email: sgh2@mit.edu 2 History, Theory and Criticism, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA; email: cajones@mit.edu Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2018. 47:97–115 First published as a Review in Advance on July 20, 2018 The Annual Review of Anthropology is online at anthro.annualreviews.org https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-anthro-102317- 050147 Copyright c  2018 by Annual Reviews. All rights reserved Keywords art, bio art, eco art, surveillance art, Anthropocene, science and technology Abstract Since the year 2000, artists have increasingly employed tools, methods, and aesthetics associated with scientific practice to produce forms of art that assert themselves as kinds of experimental and empirical knowledge production parallel to and in critical dialogue with science. Anthropologists, intrigued by the work of art in the age of its technoscientific affiliation, have taken notice. This article discusses bio art, eco art, and surveillance art that have gathered, or might yet reward, anthropological attention, particularly as it might operate as an allied form of cultural critique. We focus on art that takes oceans as its concern, tuning to anthropological interests in translocal connection, climate change, and the politics of the extraterritorial. We end with a call for decolonizing art–science and for an anti-colonial aesthetics of oceanic worlds. 97 Annu. Rev. Anthropol. 2018.47:97-115. Downloaded from www.annualreviews.org Access provided by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on 10/23/18. For personal use only.