Bio-Tracking: A mobile phone based exhibition

Bio-Tracking is a mobile phone based exhibition presented by Anna Dumitriu , artist and Director of the Institute of Unnecessary Research.

Using GPS and a leading edge new smart phone software (suitable for Nokia Series 60) called Socialight which enabled the placement of virtual sticky notes around various locations in Brighton.

Anna sampled and cultured various locations in the city for normal flora bacteria and moulds, revealing this incredible, unseen and sublime world to us through a series of beautifully enhanced digital micrographs. Luciana Haill, Ian Helliwell Ollie Glass and Juliet Kac created a series of sound works to accompany the images. Microbiologist John Paul wrote scientific text descriptions of the microbes.

[via we-make-money-not-art.com who interviewed Anna Dumitriu]

emily | 6:07 PM | SMS and the Arts |
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