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  • Artist: Martin NovakComment:
  • While Darkness Sleeps -
    While Darkness Sleeps is a series of images of underwater creatures seen through the process of microscopy. Employing a dissection microscope, the specimen is placed in a Petri dish on the stage of the microscope. A camera is attached to the
  • Vanitas ( in a Petri dish), a series of digital photographs bringing the concept of vanitas into the 21st century. In prior centuries, vanitas paintings warned against the excesses of material culture. Expressing the futility of life and its
  • Biota -
    Biota is a porcelain sculptural installation employing the morphology of the sea sponge as a matrix. Arranged on low-standing Plexiglas platforms, the sculptures appear as if they were dead coral. In the sea, such exoskeleton frameworks signal the
  • ... during a residency at SymbioticA: The Art and Science Collaborative Research Laboratory...
  • Nucleart -
    ... Imperial College London, I have created artworks using DNA and chromosomes as an art...
  • Functional Portraits -
    ..."Artists have been trying to represent in portraits not only the physical appearance of the subject,...
  • Nuclear Family -
    ... once stated “Every Man is one race”." - Marta de Menezes
  • Extended Family -
    ... we share, painted with DNA." - Marta de Menezes
  • Tree of Knowledge -
    ...ject Tree of Knowledge explores interactions between art and science by using novel cell imaging and...