GMU:DIY Biolab “Driver’s License”/Eva Walch

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Bacteria interaction with painting

Goal: to combine drawings/paintings with bacteria


First try:

  • Cluing the drawings on some stable underground, to prevent them from rolling when they are getting wet

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  • Cooking medium (source: Miga’s protocol)
Glucose – 10 g
Peptone – 2.5 g
Yeast extract – 2.5 g
Na2HPO4 – 1.35 g
Citric acid – 0.75 g
Distilled water – 500 ml
Agar – 7.5 g

• Putting the medium on the drawings

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• Putting them into a box

• After 3 days:

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-->Maybe the water with the nutrients was soaked into the paper
-->Maybe there is no need for the agar in the medium, because the bacteria are growing good just on the paper (see second try)

• After 2.5 weeks:

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Second try:

• Cooking the same medium but without agar

Medium.jpg


• Just putting the medium on some paper to see what happens without agar

MediumOnPAper.jpg


Further steps:

  1. using thicker paper
  2. making the bacteria on the pair permanent, with maybe lack
  3. using different kind of media to create different kind of bacteria fields