Zachary copfer biography

ABOUT ZACHARY .
As a former microbiologist recently turned transgenic bio-artist, I have been told by numerous people that I should look at your work.
I am a microbiologist and artist.

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Bacteriography

Albert Einstein, Courtesy of Zachary-CopferUp close, the crimson spots look like the ink-dots of a comic strip—precisely spaced bubbles in the bright areas that let a tawny background peek through—while a wash of red fills the shadows. But take in the blend of light and dark sections on the entire notebook-paper-size petri dish and the famous photo of Albert Einstein sticking out his tongue comes into focus. It’s one of the first “bacteriographs” Zachary Copfer, a microbiologist-turned-artist, created with his patent-pending method of developing living art with help from bacterial colonies.

“I love that picture. I love that it’s having fun with science,” says Copfer of the iconic Einstein image. “Everyone smiles when they see it.”

The former microbiologist took a job in a quality-assurance lab after studying biology at Northern Kentucky University but switched careers when the daily grind of industrial science stifled his scientific curiosity. Enrolling in the University of Cincinnati’s masters of fine arts (MFA) program in 2010, Copfer thought he would reignit

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B&W Bacteriography/ by Zachary Copfer

Working with some new agar and new bacteria to get B&W bacteriographs

[youtube=http://youtu.be/3z-3Qc36vBI] Don't forget to check out the KickStarter!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1368829405/bacteriography-photographs-grown-in-bacteria

Special thanks to Bee Hive Recording and Jackson F Smith for the use of Cantina Rag, the awesome song in this video, check them out at www.beehiverecording.com

There is one source of inspiration that has earned the attention of poets, artists and scientists alike, the night sky. Whether it be for spiritual reasons, such as the Native Americans who believed the stars were a world for their ancestors, or for reasons as practical as sailors navigating this world; the stars have been a guiding source for humanity for centuries. Poets, such as Edgar Allen Poe in his poem Evening Star, have turned to the stars as companions and muses burning in the cold darkness of night. Painters have also been known to draw on the stars for artistic guidance. One of the mos

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Dear Mr. Kac,

As a former microbiologist recently turned transgenic bio-artist, I have been told by numerous people that I should look at your work. So, like any normal person would do, I googled you. As you can imagine, most of the results were about Alba, the day-glo bunny. It just broke my heart to read that you never got to take Alba home and love her like all rabbits deserve. After going to all of the trouble of trying to buy a test specimen from a genetic research lab you ended up empty handed. It’s so sad that you only got to hold Alba once. I read that some people not only believe that you never saw Alba but that she may never have existed at all. But I did an image search and found a picture of you holding a rabbit. Therefore, I know that she must exist and that you did in fact meet her. I was so inspired by the story of Alba that I contacted a colleague and friend of mine, Dr. Henry Wo, a geneticist at InGen, and asked him to create a chimeric animal of my own design. And thus Albasaurus, the worlds first day-glo Velocirabbit, was born. Or should I say hatched. My origi