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Bio-tracking is a mobile phone based artwork. Artist Anna Dumitriu sampled and cultured various locations in the city of Brighton for normal flora bacteria and moulds, revealing this incredible, unseen and sublime world to us through a series of beautifully enhanced digital micrographs. Sound artists including Luciana Haill, Ian Helliwell and Juliet Kac created a series of sound works to accompany the images. Microbiologist John Paul wrote scientific text descriptions of the microbes. The soundworks (which will be on Socialight as soon as possible) can be heard and more info found on www.bio-tracking.annadumitriu.co.uk The images created a kind of dialectic, bringing together the pure emotion of the sound responses and the analytical texts. Philosopher's such as Schopenhauer have written much on music's ability to capture and express emotion " as an immediate objectification and copy of the whole will as the world itself". By bringing in the use of GPS in the initial creation of the work, mapping the locations where the microbiological swabs were taken, the work drew together the microscopic and the macroscopic, drawing a thread between the satellites orbiting the earth and the bacteria at our feet. The artwork was recently featured in an interview with Regine Debatty on http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009572.php Brussels Meets Brighton is an extension of the Bio-tracking artwork. Images of the bacterial flora cultured from the soil of Brussels have been created and will form part of a larger artwork in progress for "Brussels Meets Brighton", a massive exhibition involving Arts Collectives from Brighton, Brussels and London taking place at SHUNT LOUNGE (under London Bridge Station), London, UK from 30th April to 3rd May. See www.brusselsmeetsbrighton.org

Created by Normal Flora July 22nd 2007.
 Biotracking art science mobile music