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PROJECT EUREKA BACTERIAL ENCOUNTERS

25 APRIL 2013 09 MAY 2013
CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY CNSI ART|SCI GALLERY

Project Eureka was a shapeshifting Microbes are often synonymous with
narrative that unfolded over the rot, decay, infection, and disease.
course of 2013. Through performance, When microbes are made visible—or
installation, and video the project worse, smellable—it signals danger, a
followed the first and last designer situation best avoided. But microbes
baby, as she struggled to contribute are unavoidable, essential as part
to the future of humanity in a post- of the ecology of the healthy human
climate change world. This iteration body and the global dynamics of
of Project Eureka introduced two biogeochemical cycles. The growing
characters from Eureka’s world. realization of microbial usefulness and
diversity is changing our relationship
This event featured interviews with to microorganisms from one of fear,
Laurie Zoloth, Ph.D. (Professor of isolation, and sterilization, to a more
Medical Humanities & Bioethics and ecological understanding of symbiotic
Religion; Director of Center for exchange. Bacterial Encounters is an
Bioethics, Science and Society) and exploration of nature and culture from
Gizmo Jon (of Slab City). a microbiological perspective, capturing
the microbial ecology and the living
diversity thriving after the death of
the Salton Sea. Through culturing such
microbes, we make visible the ecologies
that make up our world.

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