Christina Nguyen Hung

I just returned from a trip to Taichung City in Taiwan where I installed a version of my artwork “American Vectors” for the “FREEZE – 2009 Medtech Art Show” at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. The installation included a new series of time-lapse videos of bacteria cultures.
I met several artists including:

Daito Manabe
Tomofumi [...]

This image i part of the “At Low Tide” project which I co-produced with my husband, artist John Sturgeon. The piece was recently show as part of the exhibition “Die Zukunft unserer Küsten – Das Wattenmeer.” And our good friend, artist Steve Bradley, exhibited Ohr am Wattenmeer. The exhibition won two awards: 1. [...]

The B/W image is a very recent one I made in collaboration with graduate student, R. Kirk Pirlo, here at Clemson. We have been trying to use a microstamping technique to write text with neurons (PDMS stamp, PDL and neurons harvested from chick embryos). As you can see our early attempts have not yielded readable [...]

“hummingbirds,” a video I shot in the backyard of my home in Central, SC

American Vectors
Begun in 2008, the American Vectors project displays images of bacteria cultures, printed in the shape of air strips located at major U.S. airbases in Iraq. Images of the cultures are streamed streamed live via webcams on the American Vectors site.