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This project investigates the unexpected diversity to be found on the human ecosystem and its 'social network'; this, by focusing on the language of billions of bacteria, which populate it. Sonja Bäumel tested two subjects each of them left hand

... petri dish as canvas and the bacteria living on her own body as colour. She develops and speaks a language combining art and science and thus creates a biologically living whole-body picture. After the application of the invisible bacteria colour on...

In the plant cell, huge numbers of chlorophyll molecules are linked one to another. When they receive light, they synchronize their activity perfectly. Each of the molecules receives and transmits photons all the way to the reaction center of the

Here, a human organ constitutes the landscape: a brain is covered in a fine film of aquatic algae. The alga deposits itself by taking its time and continues to grow at its own rhythm. I provide regular modest help: I change the water twice a

interactive video installation / analogue mental cinema

... over the Internet and in the public spaces of a few selected New York City neighborhoods. The genre is theorized by the artist as Recombinant Fiction, a political and pervasive form of fiction, which proposes new pedagogical instruments, innovative...

... is surprisingly “human”. By showing how small changes in a complex system lead to cumulative large effects elsewhere, this artwork is also a representation of the Butterfly Effect metaphor. This installation is the next step in my long-term research, in which...

... in documenting and preserving the contemporary environment of the working class, although these are just as important a part of a culture as its public buildings. With such a precise copy of the interior, I think the viewer gets an impression of the...

... of photographs and can be viewed equally as a personal, digital photo-album as well as a metaphorical vision of Europe. Starting with the blurred, simulated photograph of an imaginary street on which a crowd of people has gathered, it is possible to...

... interactive variant of "The Forest", in collaboration with Jeffrey Shaw and Sebastian Egner. Here, the animation becomes part of an interactive installation, based on a flight simulator whose cockpit is replaced by a simple platform with a seat and a large...