Re: [DIYbio] Preserving Agar Art

On 11/21/18 8:36 AM, Christopher Monaco wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone out there doing Agar Art found a reliable way to "preserve" the art once it's finished.


I've not done agar art, but have made silk screen and intaglio prints. Learn printmaking technique and experiment with transfer
to art paper of permanent pigments or dyes that are somehow bonded to the grown cultures by color. Art that is known to be
permanent sells a lot more than anything on cheap substrate that can never time travel. Instead of transferring live cells, just
make a photo of your culture, image process a retouch it, and use that for photolith color layer stack up to print on fine art
paper and sell as durable art image prints in limited editions just like Warhol did so well.

Any preserved version of life will be "dull and lifeless" looking even if it contains read DNA and cell breakdown products.
Wonderfully colorful fish turn pale colored or grey when dead, same with microbes.

Creating photos with exact same size with different light filters and maybe different sprayed on solutions to change how
a culture stains could give nice contrasty grown art. Some might work to change the staining effect when applied to the same
substrate and photographed with different filters to get nice effects of color and contrasts on different zones. Then again use
GIMP to image process, swap colors, etc. to develop grown art for sale.

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