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Tablourii din bacterii?

Noua arta foloseste forme de


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Bacterial Paintings? New Art Uses Tiny Life Forms
In Austin Texas datorita tablourilor cu bacterii si a hainelor
care cresc singure, granitele dintre arta si stiinta nu mai
sunt atat de clare.
Din ce in ce mai multi artisti folosesc mici creaturi vii
pentru a crea arta moderna. Tentatia de a folosi alte fiinte
pentru a face lucruri este destul de veche, dupa cum spune
Daniel Grushkin fondatorul Genspace, din New York City :
Oamenii folosesc bio-designul de la inceputul evolutiei
lor, cand omul a luat primul os si l-a folosit ca unealta sau a
facut prima haina din piele de animal. Ce difera acum ? Nu
am facut altceva decat sa ne rafinam tehnicile
Viata imita arta?
Prin urmare artistii incearca moduri ambitioase de a folosi
forme deviata in arta lor.
De exemplu, un grup de artisti au facut un fel de branza
dintr-o cultura de bacterii de pe tesutul uman. Opera de arta
subliniaza faptul ca sunt trilioane de bacterii in corpul
nostrum dupa cum spune Wythe Marschall doctorand in
istoria stiintei la Universitatea Harvard.
Alti artisti au creat picturi din bacterii sensibile la
lumina :Trebuie sa dai conturul cu Markerul Magic
imaginii pe care o vrei desenata si apoi sa pictezi cu
bacterii

"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.

To help people visualize how little people could reduce


humans' toll on the planet, the artist portrayed a tiny portion
of fries, which would be enough to feed a person who was
just 20 inches (50 centimeters) tall.
But the work also extends to speculation about how things
such as environment and hormones could be manipulated to
change a person's height.
Body architect Lucy McRae developed a pill, alongside a
synthetic biologist, that excretes a perfume when people
sweat. Her artwork, Germination, also imagined a world
where " you had clothes that grew throughout the day,"
Marschall said. And she has also developed a concept of
Chlorophyll skin, which would have the ability to change
color like a chameleon's skin.

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