Living Images, Yeastograms are part of the current OPEN LABS -exhibition in Science Gallery Dublin. I would like to see how they are but had to come back to Finland. The yeastograms are in sealed[…]
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Category: Art
Artist Statement 2019
Living Images, Yeastograms Eläviä kuvia, hiivagrammeja Johanna Rotko is a visual artist working with living materials mainly different yeasts. She cultivates yeast on growth mediums, which are used in basic microbiology, the yeast plates go[…]
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My environment
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[…]
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Human faces, not portraits
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[…]
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Living Images in FEMeeting 2018
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[…]
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Living Images -project
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[…]
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Nature Studies
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[…]
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