GMU:Home Made Bioelectronics/Sophia Amelia Eickhoff

Experiment 1

For this Experiment I was following this guide. After prepearing and mixing I took it home to observe the bacterias growth.

https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Home_Made_Bioelectronics/Other_resources

The 1 and 2 show the same behaviour. Small dots grow all over the petri dish just mass/coverage is decreased. In the dished 3 , 4 and 5 a different growth structure is visible. In these a serried growth from the edge to the middle is visible. Additionally small dots appear in 3 there are few dots than in 1:1000 and no rhytms in the growth from the side. Comparing 4 and 5 to the rest: Both show structure and rhythm in the growth from the side, the rest doesn´t. This might occur due to the mold growing inside which grew on accident. Comparing 4 and 5 to another the difference in the thickness and mass of the dots and patterns, rhythmsis visible. 4 has more dots than 3 and 5 which goes againt the "theory" the dots decreasing. Also in the reference dish 6 a small space is covered in bacteria which should not have happend.

I can not explain why the behaviour, patterns changes nor why the intesity changes from 4 and 5.

Experiment 2

Growing Physarum Polycephalum over Clothing.

04.06.2022 Observing the growth in Petridish

05.06.2022 Carefully placing the Organism on the T-shirt with a cardboard beneath. Then wetting and feeding with oats just around the aga cover. In order to control grow a cover is put over.

References

• https://class.textile-academy.org/2020/loes.bogers/files/recipes/bacterialdye/
• https://www.lampoonmagazine.com/article/2021/08/06/vienna-textile-lab-bacterial-dyes-karin-fleck/
• https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-environments-new-clothes-biodegradable-textiles-grown-from-live-organisms/
• https://www.uni-weimar.de/kunst-und-gestaltung/wiki/GMU:Different_Worlds/Anna_Wissmueller

Artists

• https://annadumitriu.co.uk/
• https://www.realitydisfunction.org/?page_id=182

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