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Category: Artists & Art • Biology • DC • Events
Posted on: July 2, 2009 12:24 PM, by Jessica Palmer
A little more explicitly biological than most of the works at Artomatic, Forrest McCluer's six-foot viroid is part of "an ongoing project to deconstruct 30 discarded personal computers and then create sculptures from all their constituent parts."
I'm not even going to start "deconstructing" the layers of meaning in a giant model of a biological virus made out of discarded, outdated computers. . . total bioephemera!
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Comments
Looks like a bacteriophage! When I was a grad student, my favorite task was plating phage on lawns of bacteria.
Posted by: Comrade PhysioProf | July 3, 2009 12:56 PM
Interesting. It reminds me of this:
http://www.gric.at/home.htm
Posted by: Lynn | July 7, 2009 8:56 AM
This is just around the corner from my daughter's exhibit.
Very cool, pictures don't do it justice. Goodbye, artomatic, until next year.
Posted by: tdd | July 7, 2009 11:50 AM