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PICA Day 23: Neurospora crassa

Cleaned the final soot off the surface of the vessel. The fineness of the mycelia is very lovely. It is behaving so differently from in the petri dish, climbing the walls n all.

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PICA Day 9: Neurospora crassa

Subculturing bread mold onto PDA plates in preparation for subculturing into the exhibition vessel.

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PICA Day 8: Neurospora crassa

Prepared potato dextrose agar (PDA) for Neurospora crassa vessel and lab growth trials. Heated agar in vessel to reduce bubbles from pouring. Vessel blackened by bunsen burner!

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curated by Megan Schlipalius

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3 September - 30 October 2011
Tues - Sun 11am - 6pm

how do we change when we care for other bodies?

What does it mean to care for fruit flies, slime mold, daphnia, hydra, or soil nematodes in a gallery? Is it possible to develop a different relationship between Candida albicans (commonly known as thrush) and humans by caring for it? How do we care for creatures that are not cute, furry or even visible? Is it appropriate – or ethical – to contain organisms in glass terrariums and keep them for our own purposes, aesthetic, cultural, educational or scientific? These are just some of the questions under investigation…

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