Meanings and Materialities
Meanings and Materialities
Exhibition 6–15 June
Open every day 12:00-18:00Laura Beloff & Katri Naukkarinen
In the beginning there was a fish living in the sea. A scientist caught the fish and brought it to the land. When Flavobacterium bacteria on the surface of the fish form colonies, they arrange nano-scale crystal structures that refract light. We see these structures as colour.
We received the bacteria as a gift from a biotechnology company from the Netherlands. This company is working with the bacteria to understand its potential as a commercial product. We offer a cake for the bacteria to grow in and for you to observe.
Laura Beloff (PhD) is an internationally acclaimed artist and a researcher. Research interests include practice-based investigations into a combination of information, technology, biology, and organic matter, which is in the cross section of practice-based art, science and technology. Currently, she is Associate Professor and Head of Doctoral Education at the Department of Art & Media at Aalto University, Finland.
Katri Naukkarinen (MfA) is an interdisciplinary artist who thinks through photography. She is also a doctoral researcher at Aalto University. Naukkarinen’s artistic research considers the limits of human vision and explores frequencies and scales beyond them with the help of modified cameras, archaic science apparatus and poetry. She holds an MfA from Aalto ARTS with BAs in both Photography and Aesthetics.