Two recent articles with work from artists using microbes.

BioArt : Nurit Bar-Shai’s ‘Chemical Tweets’ and the Social Life of Bacteria – LaBiotech

Nurit Bar-Shai is an artist and co-founder of bio-hacking lab Genspace. She is showing how bacteria communicate and socialize – and shaping it with sound (…) The bacteria was cultured in agar, where the bacteria grows in colonies, creating beautiful and intriguing images.

Art and natural world collide at Open Space gallery – Adrian Chamberlain – Times Colonist

And there’s the Algae Organ, a working organ equipped with an algae incubator, soon to be bicycled around the streets of Victoria. It’s all part of Natural Science, a new exhibition at Open Space gallery. Jennifer Willet, a visual arts professor at the University of Windsor, is the artist responsible for these whimsical creations. Willet specializes in bioart, art that incorporates living organisms, such as bacteria.