Since discovering the open public lab Hackuarium, I have been amazed to realize that I was already thinking like a bioartist while I was still doing academic molecular microbiology research.

All the gorgeous data, especially from microscopic work, was so beautiful…  

For the Swiss association, AGiR!, Action for Genomic integrity through Research!, especially focussed around avoidable risks to public health, an Art Call is still something to which I hope more people will contribute, in order to raise more general interest in the topic.

For this year’s biosummit art, I decided to submit something old and something new…

There are, first of all, two images of a special wall lamp ‘sconce’ I made around 20 years ago. 

((The first five who can guess the basis of the design can claim a special prize (x2 Hackuarium stickers and AGiR! Mini-logo cards to be mailed to you! Don’t tell anyone your guess, please, but write me at rachel (at) hackuarium (dot) ch))

Secondly, I have put some image montages from our newest project, around mycelia and bees! The three heart mycelia/bee montages were inspired by our biomaterials work, and provide part of the inspiration for a new Experiment.com project - to be launched soon! 

The sunflower image is from Echandens, Switzerland last September.

The ‘later growth’ upper left edges of the moss/mycelia hearts were actually cooked and give the super flavor of shiitake already, simply as mycelia!

The interdependence we all share with every living being, down to the very smallest microbes, will always inspire me to try to keep doing more open science to solve problems, and find beauty, in spite of all the ugliness of current ‘culture’ …  

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