bio art

so we had our last speaker yesterday. i won't lie, i didn't really get it. i thought the demonstration was interesting but that didn't seem like art to me. i guess maybe it was performance art? i think when we talked about "painting" with bacteria, being a bio person myself, i thought it really meant painting the bacteria on using swabs in different designs. for me, the use of the stamp kind of took away from the pieces because they were so precise i guess. i would have liked to see more experimentation with how all the different bacteria grows and how you can use that to your advantage in the art form.