bio.display

This year the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award Osamu Shimumora, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y. Tsien for the discovery and development of the green fluorescent protein (GFP). This is what is being used in the bio.display project as well. Many thanks to the above people to make my work possible!

Allison Kudla is working with similar concepts, using biological organisms in her artwork. Her work seems to concentrate on using living organisms as a raw material for creating a work, but is still very interesting, especially this one.

Eva Jablonka published an article titled “Epigenetic learning in non-neural organisms“, basically suggesting that single-celled organisms, such as bacteria, can be trained in a way we associate to organisms with a nervous system. This would imply that to some extent the bacteria can be made to “learn”, and then use that knowledge later on in similar situations.

The article is available online in PDF form here, of course there are references abound.