You can find everything from amoebas to E. Colli in these petri dishes from the Tommystinythings Etsy store.
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Bacterioptica by MADLAB
About the project:
Bacterioptica is not your typical chandelier, just as no household is a typical portrait of family life. It is itself a household organism - living and breathing the same air and bacteria we are. It is alive in a very literal sense: it cultivates, distributes and illuminates the bacterial life of its family members by way of a branching assembly of metal rods, glass petri dishes and fiber optics.
Bacterioptica is adaptive by design, not only in its form and mechanics, but more importantly, in the way it evolves. Step- by-step instructions guide the family through procedures to experiment with and prepare each bacterial sample for its place in the chandelier. Whether featuring bacteria from the skin, the yard or the dinner guests, Bacterioptica is continually changing in shape and luminosity.
Bacillus mycoides art by Simon Park
Park on his work:
One of my favourite bacteria, Bacillus mycoides. A very common bacterial inhabitant of soil which has a unique mechanism of movement. It is able to travel over and assimilate various surfaces and environments, and as it does so it sends out these unique multicellular exploratory tendrils. These images document its responses to various environments. Amongst bacteria it is uniquely responsive to stress and it’s pattern of growth changes in response to this.
Electron microscope bacteria visualizations by Tamas Erdodi
Phillips bio-light design uses bacteria to light up your living room
Philips has shown off a concept for a light that runs on not grid electricity, not solar power, not even wind power. Nope, it runs on bacteria.
According to Philips, “The concept explores the use of bioluminescent bacteria, which are fed with methane and composted material (drawn from the methane digester in the Microbial Home system). Alternatively the cellular light array can be filled with fluorescent proteins that emit different frequencies of light.”
On the third day of Christmas my true love bought for me three parasites in petri dishes… You can buy these festive ornaments for your true love at the Artologica Etsy store.
Love biology? Love art? Well, look no further than Artlogica’s store on Etsy.
Communicating Bacteria Dress and MRSA Quilt by Anna Dumitriu.
Dumitriu on her work:
Public understanding of science, in particular biomedical science and the ethics of emerging technologies is so important, particularly in terms of microbiology and I feel a responsibility to share the knowledge I acquire with the wider public. I feel strongly that anyone can understand anything if it’s explained in the right way for them. Many businesses play on public fears in order to add value to their products, and newspapers and TV shows fill our minds with images of bacteria as armies of tiny monsters ready to attack unless we buy some new hand wash or detergent. The press and its desire to sell newspapers can even sway political opinion at the highest level. I recently created indigo blue coloured patchwork quilt stained with MRSA bacteria grown on chromogenic agar and patterned with clinical antibiotics and other tools in the research and treatment of this disease. Each square on the quilt can be explained in terms of the research work that went into making it. The public are fascinated to come face to face with the famous ‘superbug’, but in the case of my work the piece has been sterilised (autoclaved) so it is no longer dangerous. Quilts are historically used as story telling devices and this piece tells the story of MRSA and facilitates dialogues.
She will be participating in the Cambridge Science Xchange on October 23.
Her Own DNA - Living Drawings Created with Bioluminescent Bacteria with Protein Music (by artsciencemovies)
These Living Drawings depict the cycle of life and death calling attention to our own mortality. Hunter Cole creates controlled line drawings using bioluminescent bacteria. The bacteria then grow on Petri dishes. The bacteria grow, first appearing with bright light, then dim and gradually die off as available nutrients are depleted. Bacteria are photographed using a time-lapse technique over a two-week period. Bacteria become collaborators in the art as it grows and dies. The bacteria contribute to the story in the art. A musical score created by the Hunter Cole for the movie is based on protein sequences found in the bacteria.
These images are part of a series of remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. The colony structures form as adaptive responses to laboratory-imposed stresses that mimic hostile environments faced in nature. (via)
I have no idea if the movie Contagion is any good, but its billboard is awesome!
Warner Bros. Pictures Canada teamed up with microbiologists and immunologists from around the world to create a one-of-a-kind bacteria message board located at 409 Queen Street West in an abandoned store-front window. On August 28th, two large Petri dishes were inoculated with live bacteria including penicillin, mold and pigmented bacteria and almost overnight have revealed the true Contagion — an artistic interpretation of the spread of a virus as depicted in the film.
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