Microbes as Material

residency blog

It has been a while since I last posted. Another year and I continue to grow the bioassemblages and find ways in which to transport,...

I'm excited to announce that I will be running a workshop with students at the National Glass Centre where we will focus on recording...

Last week I ran a workshop with fine art students as part of Northumbria University's Project Week: Ecologies of Togetherness where we...

Having made a range of vessels, I aim to test ways in which I could explore their potential connectivity. For the purposes of the...

I discussed with the group the possibility of forming a conductive vessel that could communicate with the lively contents held within it....

Our aim was to test the conductivity of material fused with glass. Of course, many materials are conductive and some more than others. ...

Jeff Sarmiento showed us some earlier experiments where copper powder had been fused between two sheets of glass. The bubbles were an...

Glass is a material that has long held my interest, with it's clear and fluid nature and its relation to the scientific. I recently had...

Actinomycetes Following on from previous work with AND and Lancaster University earlier in the year (Microbes as Material) I was invited...

For microbes as material, read 'life as object'. It's a statement I find somewhat paradoxical but it's at the heart of my reasons for...