Infective Art

Bacteria are associated with hospitals, infections and scientists in lab coats. Art forms such as painting, photography and music are associated with beauty, aesthetics and creative minds. So what do you get when you mix them together?

The Science Museum’s Dana Centre presents a ground-breaking showcase of bacterial art. Get your photo taken in Anne Brodie and Simon Park’s bioluminescent photo booth. Join Anna Dumitriu to find out how you can create auras or knitwork using microorganisms. And draw your own perfect microbe in Lizzie Burns’s workshop. Be dazzled by Milton Mermikides’ audiovisual installation based on the bacterial genome, and by Heather Barnett’s footprints.

Speakers/artists

Anne Brodie, artist
Simon Park, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey
Anna Dumitriu, Artist in Residence, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, Sussex University
Lizzie Burns, science-based artist/communicator
Heather Barnett, artist
Milton Mermikides, sound artist

Facilitator: Joanna Verran, Professor of Microbiology, Manchester Metropolitan University

Event organised by:
The Science Museum

Laboratory equipment for the bioluminescent photo booth was donated by Bibby Scientific Ltd

Image courtesy of Simon Park and Steve Downer