Neri Oxman
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard Sep 2023
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I like E. coli, and a lot of the work that we've done was not possible without our working on E. coli or other workhorse organisms like cyanobacteria.
Death masks.
The death masks.
So we did this project called Vespers and those were basically death masks that was set as a process for designing a living product.
What happens, and we looked at, I looked at, I remember looking at Beethoven's death masks and Agamemnon's death masks and just studying
how they were created, and really they were sort of geometrically attuned to the face of the dead.
And what we wanted to do is create a death mask that was not based on the shape of the wearer, but rather was based on their legacy and their biology.
And maybe we could...
harness a few stem cells there for future generations or contain the last breath.
Lazarus, which preceded Vespers, was a project where we designed a mask to contain a single breath, the last breath of the wearer.
And again, if I had access to these technologies today, I would totally reincorporate my grandmother's last breath in a product.
So it was like an air memento.
So with Vespers, we...
We actually used E. coli to create pigmented masks, masks whose pigments would be recreated at the surface of the mask.
And I'm skipping over a lot of content, but basically there were 15 masks and they were created as three sets.
The masks of the past, the masks of the present, and the masks of the future.
And the masks, there were five, five, and five, and the masks of the past were based on ornaments, and they were embedded with natural minerals like gold.
Yes, yes, yes.
Yes.
They look symmetrical, but they're not.
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