Christina Nguyen Hung

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 [...]

Diptych of Durst Lambda Prints (size variable), 2005
A map of the continental US created with Bacterium Serratia Marcescens and nutrient agar in a glass petri dish. The map was created using a small positive mold of the US. The mold was placed in a Petri dish followed by liquid agarose gel. Once the gel cooled [...]

About this artwork: an image of a 200 mm. square petri dish with nutrient agar and the bacterium S. marcescens grown to form a Joseph McCarthy/John Ashcroft hybrid.
Epson inkjet print 47” x 47
2005

About this artwork: a series of four images, taken over time, of a petri dish with nutrient agar and the bacterium Serratia marcescens grown to form the phrase “stay the course,” a phrase used repeatedly by President Bush when describing U.S. strategy in Iraq. The dish is photographed at various points in time, recording the [...]