Have you ever seen art created in a petri dish using living, growing microorganisms? That's agar art! ASM's annual Agar Art Contest is a chance for you to use science to show off your creative skills.

2021年3月22日 · Clad in a white lab-coat, 26-year-old bespectacled microbiologist Balaram Khamari hunches over dozens of petri dishes, each filled with invisible colonies of bacteria. Two days before,...

Microbial art, [1] agar art, [2] or germ art [3] is artwork created by culturing microorganisms in certain patterns. [4] The microbes used can be bacteria, yeast, fungi, or less commonly, protists.

2021年3月28日 · Balaram Khamari has been spending a lot of time in his lab in Puttaparthi, India, culturing colorful bacteria and artfully arranging it on a jelly like substance called agar.

2022年12月12日 · Community labs offer bioengineered microbes for public art workshops, while at-home kits allow anyone to brew agar and grow their own colorful bacteria.

Agar art is a form of biological art where colonies of pigmented microbes are painted or drawn onto agar medium using sterilized applicators. To make replicable drawings, students drew any picture they desired on a circular paper template the size of a petri dish and taped their sketch under their agar plate “canvases.”

The most common and explored form of microbes in art is agar art, where microbiologists grow bacteria or fungi using their artistic skills. Microbiological artists study the growth pattern of microbes, how these interact in their environment, and change their growth patterns.

2022年3月17日 · Agar art or microbial art or agar art with living microbes and germ art are the synonyms in which artwork is created by culturing microbes in certain patterns. The microorganisms used can be bacteria, yeast fungi, or protists (less commonly). The microbes can be chosen for their natural colors.

2020年12月18日 · 'Artworks with living bacteria'. This is the motto of the Agar Art contest, a project that the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) has been carrying out annually for the past 5 years. This society was born in 1899 with the mission to promote and advance the microbial sciences.

2015年10月22日 · Microbiologists from around the world used strands of bacteria to create artwork inside of petri dishes for the 2015 Agar Art Contest, sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology.