Thank you to everyone who visited our tent at the World Science Festival Street Fair on Sunday -- and a special thanks to the 200+ artists who contributed drawings (or written ideas) to our Impressions of Growing collective art project. We will be very VERY busy in the lab growing your ideas in e. coli over the summer! Check back (or subscribe to our blog) for updates on our progress... and our plans to share this work with you. See more photos from the festival below... *Annie, Lissa & Ivory... our deepest thanks, we couldn't have done it without you!
New York artist Amy Chase Gulden has enlisted a scientific collaborator (Dr. Kristin Baldwin) and a microorganism (E. coli bacteria) to produce live, growing paints. Gulden traces outlines of natural forms – vines, trees, seaweed or neurons - with a paintbrush filled with invisible E. coli. After a night in culture, intriguing images appear on her canvas of agar. The outlines of her intention are apparent, yet the paint adds its own signature as it escapes her brushstrokes. This effect is closer to nature than traditional painting and produces images of unusual beauty, vigor and spontaneity.
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