Collaborate with our Science Team and create your own unique bioart portrait
A scientific process and experience that you can come and watch!
A high-resolution digital file for you to share or print on your favouite media.
More details about this unique experience are written below!
£350
You'll be invited to come and have a photograph taken or we'll work with you to select a high-contrast photograph of your face.
Our bioinformatics wizards will generate an array from your photograph for you to review.
Our Science Team will load the array, an agar 'canvas' and a microbial palette into our PIXL colony picking robot.
You'll be invited to come and watch the art being generated (optional)!
The resulting canvas will be incubated until the microbial colonies are visible.
We will use a state-of-the-art camera to take photos of your portrait against different colour backgrounds.
You will be emailed high resolution digital files of your portrait which you will be able to share as you like, and print up to 140cm x 100cm on the media of your choice.
NOTE: Working with microbes is difficult. One stray spore can seed contaminating colonies. We think that any serendipitous contamination adds value to the artwork. We can't guarantee that there will or won't be any contamination growing on your portrait!
Thank you very much for supporting Singer Instruments' Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths related activities like our 2024 Bioart Exhibition!