Oltramarino, 2013
Oltramarino I
Installation: arched screen, stainless steel, glass, microscope, camera, mirror, projector, scientific objects, micro-algae (Dunaliella salina)
Creators
durational performance
In a subtle performative act, Mackenzie presents the individualism and ego of the artist and scientist. Micro-algae, creators of oxygen in earth’s atmosphere 3.5 billion years ago are placed on a microscope slide and projected live onto
Image credits: Colin Davison
a custom built arched ceiling, reminiscent of oltramarino frescoes of Rennaissance Italy. Over time, the microscope slide dries up and the once living ‘celestial bodies’ die, the artist then returns, discards the slide and replaces it with new living bodies.
Oltramarino II
Artist’s book, stainless steel, glass, pigment from commercial cyanobacteria (Spirulina), audio, light
Artist’s book. Essays and extracts on the subject of the post-human from:
Chelsea Brain, EngD Researcher, Scottish Bioenergy/Newcastle University
Dr Gary Caldwell, Senior Lecturer, Applied Marine Biology, Newcastle University
Dr Brian Degger, Interdisciplinary Biologist, UK
Dr Spela Petric, Transmedia, LUCA, Brussels
Iris Priest, Artist, UK
Helen Schell, Artist and UK Space Ambassador
Robertina Sebjanic, Artist, Programme Developer, Cultural Centre of European Space Technologies, Slovenia
Dr Robert Song, Senior Lecturer, Theology, Durham
Kate Stobbart, Artist and GP
Prof Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal
Dr Simon Woods, Co-Director of PEAL (Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre), Newcastle University
Supported by Dr Chelsea Brain,
Dr Gary Caldwell and David Whitaker of
Newcastle University
School of Marine Science and Technology
