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"You would draw with Magic Marker what you want the
image to be, and then paint it with bacterial paint," said
Karen Ingram, an artist and co-organizer of the Brooklyn
Science Cabaret. One example? A portrait of Charles
Darwin "drawn" in bacterial paint.
Another artist, Spela Petric, has conceptualized a mashup
of humans and algae. The creatures would be
generationally dyadic, meaning a human gives rise to a
spore of algae, which then births a human child, and so
forth.
"It ends with a haunting image of someone giving birth to
algae. It's also kind of funny," Marschall said.
To design the artwork, Petric, who is trained in biology
herself, consulted with synthetic biologists to come up with
a somewhat feasible vision of how the process would work,
Marschall said.
Human engineering
Another art series, by Arne Hendriks and collaborators,
called "The Incredible Shrinking Man," comes up with a
seemingly absurd solution to the problem of climate
change.
"He has this great idea of just engineering every generation
of humans to be slightly shorter and skinnier and they
would just eat less and this would naturally solve a lot of
problems," Marschall said.