This exhibit should be pretty awesome. I attended a related event at the California College of the Arts on Friday afternoon where artists and scientists displayed and demonstrated their works. I got to extract DNA from a Strawberry, talk to a woman who works with using stem cells to grow tissue, see the inside of a glass sponge, and get a recipe for glow-in-the-dark bacteria!
Here’s a little blurb from the Yerba Buena website about the exhibit:
“BioTechnique showcases a visually rich assortment of organisms, semi-living objects, and intricate life support systems, shining light on the technologies that are changing the global economy and the earth itself. The product of biological techniques—the exhibition artworks have been “grown” rather than manufactured: Denise King’s terrarium habitats constructed for her bacteria paintings; lab equipment used by the Tissue Culture and Art Project to grow chimerical cell clusters; hydroponic garden installations by Philip Ross. Shown alongside these artworks are artifacts made by industrial technologists, ecological researchers, and biological engineers. These hybrid objects, from sheltering vessels to semi-living diagnostic tools being developed in Silicon Valley, provide context for the artworks and further explore the increasingly fuzzy line between the technological and the natural.”
The exhibit will run from Oct. 25 to Jan. 6.
