neurons in vitro

a fragment of a larger work in progress…

microstamping/writing “failure”

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 [...]

Oron Catts discusses the “Victimless Leather” project by the Tissue Culture and Art Project

American Vectors

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.

American Vectors (work in progress)

I have been working on my latest project American Vectors at www.americanvectors.com Most of my blogging energy has been devoted to that project.
Here is a detail Image I took yesterday of the installation, which is not on public display, though webcams allow people to watch the petri dishes as they change over time.