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Must-see: Storm

T. Ryan Gregory — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 16:20:15 +0000

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Microbial Art surpasses 20K hits!

T. Ryan Gregory — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 19:29:46 +0000

Well, the Microbial Art collection has become far more popular than I ever expected. It passed 20,000 unique visits today, after about 2 months online. This was helped by the recent features on New Scientist, Wired Italy, and Wired UK, and a viral outbreak of re-posts of the bacterial Mario image, which has been showing up on video game sites as well as microbiology pages.

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Microbe art at New Scientist.

T. Ryan Gregory — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:17:46 +0000

New Scientist has just posted a gallery of some of the microbial art images on their webpage. Click here to see which ones they selected.

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Microbial Art — now with user generated content!

T. Ryan Gregory — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:56:45 +0000

If you have been enjoying Microbial Art, I suggest that you sign up for the feed because it is now set up to showcase artwork contributed by users.

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Microbial Art is alive!

T. Ryan Gregory — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 18:54:10 +0000

I am happy to report that my latest distraction project is now live!

Visit www.microbialart.com for lots of intriguing artworks created using living microorganisms.

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Microbe art rocks.

T. Ryan Gregory — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:45:04 +0000

UPDATE — Visit www.microbialart.com!

Some more creations by students in my lab:

Archaeopteryx

Galapagos Islands

Skull

Primate phylogeny

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More microbial art.

T. Ryan Gregory — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:29:49 +0000

As I mentioned in my previous post, my students and I have been experimenting with creating art from living colonies of bacteria:

I don’t think this is a common art form (though it’s one I want to explore in more detail down the road), but I am aware of a few other very intriguing examples of similar things. For example, here are some of the stunning bacteria images by Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob:

See more of Dr. Ben-Jacob’s artwork.

And here are some using fungi and bacteria by Dr. Niall Hamilton:

See more of Dr. Hamilton’s artwork.

And, of course, this famous image by Dr. Roger Tsien, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on green fluorescent protein:

Or these reconstructed ancestral coral pigments spliced into bacteria by Dr. Mikhail Maltz:

And some “photography” with genetically engineered bacteria by Dr. Chris Voigt:

In addition to working with actual bacteria and fungi, there are amazing works of art that depict microbes, such as the bacteria and viruses by Luke Jerram:

Click here to view the embedded video.

See more Glass Microbiology by Luke Jerram.

If you know of other examples of microbial art, please share.

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