We are a team of bio-artists,designers, biologists and engineers, who have joined forces to create useful and machine-like functionality of modified living organisms, to blur the distinction between artificial and natural. Our aim was to further develop the bio-light concept based on the use of gene-modified bacteria in order to create a sustainable light source.

 

 

 

The bio.display functions as a personal monitor for your carbon footprint. The display is composed of a living, light-emitting bacteria culture,
that reacts to your carbon footprint level. The bigger your footprint is, the more bacteria shall glow. The purpose of using bacteria in relation to climate change comes from recent research results saying that we will be able to use CO2 consuming bacteria in smart building materials.
These future applications are still under development, but they project a vision that we would like to address with our project: that is engineering biological systems as we now engineer technological systems, for human use, in the most sustainable form possible.
Our display is an accessory for a future home, a monitor for a household's or for an individual's CO2 emitting activities, offsetted by glowing, smart bacteria. It calls the attention to our depleting life-style, but moreover, it offers a solution as well. 

 We envision sustainable lifeforms, plants, bacteria, etc. acting as information sources and functional parts
of the human environment, be that indoors or outdoors. The project was initiated as a continuation of the work started at “bio.display”, aiming at creating a dynamic display made of fluorescent bacteria, started by Ákos Maróy under an Artist in Residence program at The Arts & Genomics Center in Leiden, the Netherlands. Currently, the project is developed as part of Kitchen Budapest's Talent Program.