Tagged: Biolumination

thinkScience at the Auckland Arts Festival – Biolumination II - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Mar 23, 2015 •

• Auckland Arts Festival,
• Biolumination,
• Biolumination II,
• bioluminescence,
• Cinzah ‘Seekayem’ Merkens,
• Helen Beech,
• Hope Sutherland,
• Innovation and Employment,
• Julia Marchwicka,
• Katherine Yang,
• Laura Ward,
• Ministry for Business,
• Q Theatre,
• Rhian Salmon,
• Rodrigo Vidal,
• thinkScience,
• Tile Space,
• Vault

What happens when a microbiologist with a love of glowing bacteria teams up with a group of artists? Biolumination II! … Read More

Biolumination: Turning glowing fish poo into art… sort of! - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Jan 22, 2015 •

• art,
• Art in the Dark,
• Biolumination,
• Gather and Hunt,
• Photobacterium,
• Rebecca Klee,
• Sci/art

Last year I collaborated with artist Rebecca Klee for the Art in the Dark festival, held in Auckland, New Zealand, each year. Our piece, called Biolumination, featured several litres of glowing bacteria, some custom-made glass tubes and three aquarium pumps. A big thanks to Benj from Gather and Hunt who shot some … Read More

Monday Micro – glowing bugs return to the park! - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • Nov 10, 2014 •

• Arachnocampa luminosa,
• Art in the Dark,
• bacteria,
• Biolumination,
• bioluminescence,
• Gather and Hunt,
• glow worm,
• Rebecca Klee,
• sci-art

This Thursday, bioluminescent bacteria will once again be making an appearance at Auckland’s Art in the Dark festival. ‘Biolumination‘ is the result of my second collaboration with artist Rebecca Klee. This year sees our glowing bacteria being displayed in custom-built glass vessels which remind me a lot of the fishing lines our native glow … Read More