
Yeastograms research station
was opened 15.6.2019 in this silo.
-Artistic Research Center for Yeast Images, by Scientific Methods.
Living Images Projects Portfolio site: PORTFOLIO 2020
Latest exhibition in in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
The project is based on the artistic research which started in 2014. In the project I study images made with living matter, main organisms are yeasts. In the same time I try to understand my own relationship with the world///surroundings///nature.
Yeastogram in the cover and featured in the book: Art as We Don’t Know It.
Project is ongoing and can be followed in Instagram and Vimeo. Instagram -account is updated regularly. Movie clips can be found in Vimeo.
RECENT: Living Images -Exhibition in SOLU Space, Katajanokka, Helsinki 13.08. - 13.09.2020.
I would like to create a global network focusing on artistic, scientific and commercial yeast research. Start of this project is here: YeastRing.com
Making of laboratory yeastograms in Vimeo. Yeast cells under the microscope in Vimeo.
Splice -exhibition: 20 May – 12 November 2017
SPLICE Re-examining Nature in Oulu Art Museum.
More info about the exhibition in Bioart Society`s website
This took place in Oulu Art Museum. It was held in September 2017.
Funded by: TAIKE, Bioart society and Oulu Art Museum.
From Oulu exhibition.
Zoomed to the 3 month old.
This one came the second day.
Blueberry agar plate, with 100% blueberry powder.
This one is about 4 weeks old.
Not so reliable yeast.
The yeast was not set.
Wilder yeast.
Charcoal Agar Base.
Print 50x50cm, mounted on aluminium.
Leftovers from the solo exhibition got frozen.
Summer time exposures are more interesting.
Should get closer with these.
This one was on display at the solo exhibition.
Testing the agar colors.
Winter exposure, yeast got yellow color.
Tests from the winter.
Tests from the winter.
Yeast images as a research topic is interesting and the process should be studied further. It would be crazy to leave the research now when I have just begun to understand what is happening on the plates and what is the best way recording it. The different outcomes from the agar plates with the unexpected behaviour of yeast have been a driving force for the project.
The artistic research has been done with different types of growth mediums that are used in basic microbiology. Raster images are exposed onto cultivated yeast with Ultraviolet LED lamps. The UV-lights kill part of the cells during the 24-hour exposure process. The picture form when the yeast cells sheltered by the black parts of the raster images survive and the other cells are killed by the UV-light.
Project is based on research I started in 2014, when I made my first images with yeast.
The original Yeastogram technique was thought to me by Lucas Czjzek from the Bioart Club pavillon_35 / Vienna Austria. In a workshop arranged by Finnish Bioart Society in December 2013.
Pavillon_35 website about yeastograms: Yeastogram.com /// Their project webpage. Active people now (2017) doing yeastograms with the Pavillon_35 -group are Sonja Bäumel, Moya Hoke, Kristin Weissenberger and Günter Seyfried.
My laboratory is in my kitchen, exposures happen in my studio and the research area is on my balcony. The research center expanded to Otaniemi and Biofilia laboratory in 2017.