YeastRing – It is all about Yeasts.

About YeastRing

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YeastRing name comes from the history of yeast. From the fact that people have stored the yeast strains in these wooden rings. The living organism, yeast have lived within families, farmhouses for hundreds of years.[…]

Nature Studies

9.4.201811.6.2018 yeastogramsArt

The Themes of Artistic ResearchMaking images with different yeasts Saccharomyces cerevisiae I have been working with baker’s and brewer´s yeast which are Saccharomyces cerevisiae species. I have been using commercial yeast strains. They are from[…]

Artist Statement 2019

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Living Images, -making images with diverse yeasts: Artist Statement 2019

Gum tree cider with non-Saccharomyces species

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The aboriginals in Australia have been doing beverages from gum tree sap. The traditional drink is called Way-a-linah. More info on the original article: Alcohol brewed from trees and other fermented drinks in Australia’s Indigenous history[…]

My environment

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I am studying my surroundings with yeast images. The technique has thought me a lot of humility towards nature, specially yeasts and other small creatures. Yeasts are everywhere and we need them as much as oxygen[…]

@yeastograms Instagram feed

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Human faces, not portraits

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I have been using human face on the yeast images from the beginning of the project. Main reason why is that the faces have endless possibilities to form a yeast image/yeastograms. The variation of results[…]

Living Images in FEMeeting 2018

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I participated FEMeeting in Portugal with my project. There were 66 women presenting amazing projects. It was a huge honour to present my work with yeast images to this group. The conference aimed to: “Meeting is to[…]

Wild yeast hunt

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Yeasts are everywhere around us, mainly they live where sugars are present. In fruits, berries, flowers, insects also soil and tree bark, also they are in the air. Here are some links related to wild[…]

UV-light and yeast

28.5.201811.6.2018 yeastogramsScience

In my research project yeast cells (mainly Saccharomyces cerevisiae) goes under the UV-lamps. Ultraviolet light is an electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength from 10 nm to 400 nm from which I am using 365-405nm. Cells go[…]

About yeast intelligence

28.5.201813.9.2018 yeastogramsScience

I have started to acknowledge more about the intelligence of other species and to respect different kind of intelligence not just human. I am wondering what kind of intelligence yeasts have? What is their purpose[…]

Living Images -project

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The Living images, yeastograms -project has been funded by City of Kotka, Art Promotion Center Finland, Bioart Society and Kone Foundation. People behind this Johanna Rotko is a visual artist working with living materials mainly[…]