Art Processing Sharing Blog
I was reading about this recently in Carl Zimmer's interesting book called Microcosm and thought i'd pass it on. It's an image from a camera created by bio-engineered bacteria. Here's a link to a short article that talks about it a little more. Not the world's most artistic image, the description of the 'ghostly image' makes it sound a little more alluring. But i do think it's fascinating. Artist's have worked with the high tech of their age throughout human history. It used to be the latest dye or pigment. Now people use synthetically engineered life for their art, or as a medium for it. This was more of a science project for students than an art for the sake of art kind of thing. But there are a number of different artist's working in this area of combining biotechnology and art who have exhibited their work in galleries and exhibitions recently. Fascinating or frightening depending on your point of view i guess.
