GMU:BioArt WS16/Fernanda Caicedo

KOMBUCHA TEA

Results of making KOMBUCHA TEA

Drying up Scoby to preserve

ISOLATING BACTERIA from Scoby

Preparation of Acetobacter Media

Mixing Media with Agar

Boiling Media

Putting up Media into dishes

Result after one week

GROW BACTERIA FROM BODY

Result afther 2 weeks

Wiew using the Microscope

Making Macrophtography

MICROSCOPE: Oil immersion

Procedure:

GROWING FUNGI

Procedure:

MAKING BACTERIA BATTERY

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BioArt Projeckt

The Planet Earth has evolved trugth the exercise of error and conscience. Man in self is just meat, materia wich transforms it self into live energy only when he asymilates his cosmic and mistical personality. The human behaviour has the power to transform biosphere. As specie man is the most powerfull biological force in existence: consumes, disturb, creates and destroys. Resembles more and more to a bacterium insatoable of resourses, territory and power, fortifying his destroyd nature and minimyzing his creator nature because of his predatory condition. This projeckt is a personal pursuit in wich my coultural rooths and my actual state of mind are the protagonists. Thrugth the magnification of the indiscernible I atemmt to open a discution in an simbolic and archetypic way abouth the escence and purpose if human live; building with the help of images, a bridge of symbiotic relation between past, pressent and future.

PAST: Represented by geometric schemes of animals originative of the indigenous culture “Salasaca” of the center zone of Ecuador (Province of Tungurahua). In the indigenous consmovision art is one of the esencial ways of transmition of the coulture and ancestral teachings, its also a tool of identification and vehicle of expresion. The indigenous culture characteryced by its conscientious relationship of dependence with the forces of nature and the constant feedback trohgth of counsciest energy by means of a lifestyle close to nature and gratitude rituals wich includes offerings.

PRESENT: My being and being, represented by my boddy. My external actual condition, the skin I live in, that covers my being and allows me to interact with this phisical reality and with another forms of life wicht accommodate in simbiosis for surviving: bacteria.

FUTURE: Bacteria who habitate my skin as annonym guests in almos imposibles scales for my understanding who buil an incontrolable life system and according to science are Beings equipped with special conditions in the universe, they are capable of adapt, unite, mutate and survived in any possible environment.

First Try STENCIL

== Process: ==

1 Step: Growing my own Bacteria

Bacteria Eyes

Face Bacteria

2 Step: Cut the pattern on a metallic surface.

"Salasaca Bird" Stencil Pattern

Pattern trimmed in Agar

Trimmed Agar fulled with mix of peptone, agar, sugar and yeast

Results after 7 days of placing the bacteria in the stencil area

Second Try DRAWING WITH BACTERIA Process:

Using the bacteria-free area

Using my eyes bacteria for drawing

Result after 7 days

Third Try DRAWING ON STENCIL AREA Process:

Using my Face bacteria after 14 days of incubation

Using an Agar base

Adding the stencil on the Agar platte

Waiting till it draws

Cutting the stencil area

Fulling trimmed Agar with mix of peptone, agar, sugar and yeast

Drawing on the stencil area with my face bacteria

RESULTS AFTHER 5 DAYS

RESULTS AFTHER 15 DAYS