Hunter Cole - Living Drawings Created with Bioluminescent Bacteria - Rabbit

http://www.LivingDrawings.com

These Living Drawings depict the cycle of life and death calling attention to our own mortality. Hunter Cole creates controlled line drawings using bioluminescent bacteria. The bacteria then grow on Petri dishes. Bacteria become collaborators in the art as it grows and dies. First appearing with bright light, bacteria in the drawing are photographed as it uses up available nutrients, gradually dying-off over a two-week period. An example of that is Rabbit where the initial drawing shows a rabbit on the right and a rooster on the left. After some of the bacteria die the rooster on the left becomes a wolf. Hunter Cole created the initial drawing. It would have been very difficult to predict the rooster would become a wolf. The bacteria contributed to the story in the art.

The cover of the April 2004 issue of Nature Genetics featured one of these Living Drawings. Cole's Living Drawings were a part of a group exhibition, Its Alive! A Laboratory of BioTech Art, at Monserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts in 2007. Cole's Living Drawings have had solo shows at the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, Illinois in 2006 and the Honors College at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan in 2005.

Music: Brahms Waltz in A Flat Major Op. 39/15
Album: Point Classics

For video with music based on luxA protein sequence go to http://www.LivingDrawings.com

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• art
• science
• bioart
• bioartist
• bioluminescent
• bacteria
• drawing

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This is cool!