As I mentioned in my previous post, my students and I have been experimenting with creating art from living colonies of bacteria:
I don’t think this is a common art form (though it’s one I want to explore in more detail down the road), but I am aware of a few other very intriguing examples of similar things. For example, here are some of the stunning bacteria images by Dr. Eshel Ben-Jacob:
See more of Dr. Ben-Jacob’s artwork.
And here are some using fungi and bacteria by Dr. Niall Hamilton:
See more of Dr. Hamilton’s artwork.
And, of course, this famous image by Dr. Roger Tsien, who won a Nobel Prize for his work on green fluorescent protein:
Or these reconstructed ancestral coral pigments spliced into bacteria by Dr. Mikhail Maltz:
And some “photography” with genetically engineered bacteria by Dr. Chris Voigt:
In addition to working with actual bacteria and fungi, there are amazing works of art that depict microbes, such as the bacteria and viruses by Luke Jerram:
See more Glass Microbiology by Luke Jerram.
If you know of other examples of microbial art, please share.