Looking one way then the other In this work the codified pattern of eight drops of blood falling from one metre onto a hard surface is further coded into a weaving pattern, using satin ribbons and solid canvas. Through variations of the dyed colour magenta and the reflective properties of the satin weave [...]
Category: art science
The Importance of Light – ex Physics.org
Blood on Silk: Blood Alcohol Content 1 of 6 in this series
Blood on Silk: Blood Alcohol Content, 2014, print 30 x 20cm
Another way light provides the answer for blood testing
Light replaces the Needle. 'Empa and the University Hospital Zurich have joined forces to develop a sensor that gages the blood sugar through skin contact. And best of all: No blood samples are necessary, not even to calibrate the sensor. “Glucolight” is initially to be used in premature babies to avoid hypoglycemia and subsequent brain [...]
Blood at the Science Gallery Dublin 2014
Weavers Turn Silk Into Diabetes Test Strips
January 08, 2015 9:59 AM ET Nsikan Akpan read article online here Using a simple wooden handloom, weavers create silk strips that diabetics can use as glucose sensors. This loom is at Achira Labs in Bangalore, India. Courtesy of Tripurari Choudhary itoggle caption Courtesy of Tripurari Choudhary Using a simple wooden handloom, weavers create silk [...]
Blood on Silk: Wrap up of exhibitions in 2014
Can we move past an ethnographic approach to Arts/Science ?
One of the common artistic strategies that appears to dominate the current batch of arts /science exhibitions is the practice of the artist finding or making an artefact of science; either in the laboratory, from a real or online scientific archive, or in the collection of a science museum, and then re-locating it to an [...]
Blood Testing – New Thinking Commercially Applied
photo credit Matthew Scott http://www.wired.com/2014/02/elizabeth-holmes-theranos/
Blood on Silk: Tufts Analytical Lab, 2014, silk paper and found objects, size variable. As installed for two and a half days in the analytical lab in the Biomedical Silk Lab at Tufts University Boston USA in late October 2014
This was not a public exhibition - it could only be seen by those who worked in this particular set of scientific laboratories within the silk laboratory at Tufts University Boston where they '.. study the use of silk as an optical material for applications in biomedical engineering, photonics and nanophotonics' This installation intervened into [...]
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