Living art

Lunchbag is usually a mish-mosh of undergrad announcements and burritos, but today we had a presentation by a resident artist. And it blew my mind.

Angelo Vermeulen is a Belgian biologist cum artist will be working/living in Athens for the next few months launching his newest installation project. But in order to generate some interest, he presented some of his previous work. After receiving his PhD in biology, he was really turned on by photography, which led to installation art, which led him back to biology in the form of "living art". He created paintings of algae, a vital stained-glass piece. Darwinian art installation/experiment looking at water fleas in tanks with fish and colored glass. Another project with algae that was influenced by radio-waves captured from space. Dude!

Now he has gotten into gaming, and wants to use an algae eco-sphere to cool a server of his own design. And the server will support a designed game that may manage the existence of the eco-sphere.

My description doesn't do it justice, but holy crap I love the way his mind works!

Then when I got home, I caught a glimpse of some animusic, which just tickled an adjacent part of my brain!

on the tube: Cubs v Reds (although funny to watch it on a Cinci station)