"Rumplestiltskin" Bacteria Digests Toxic Liquid, Poops 24-Karat Gold

ecouterre.com 03 Oct '12, 6pm

"Rumplestiltskin" Bacteria Digests Toxic Liquid, Poops 24-Karat Gold

Their setup uses a living system as a “vehicle for artistic exploration,” says Brown. The artwork consists of a portable laboratory made of out of 24-karat gold-plated hardware, a glass bioreactor, and the bacteria, which, together, produce gold over the course of a week in front of an audience. Accompanying the equipment is a series of images made with a scanning electron microscope. Using ancient gold-illumination techniques, Brown applied 24-karat gold leaf to regions of the prints where a bacterial gold deposit had been identified, so that each print contains some of the bioreactor-produced gold.

Full article: http://www.ecouterre.com/rumplestiltskin-bacteria-digests...

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