Hunter Cole, "Living Drawings", 2010, installation (movie of drawings created with bioluminescent bacteria, two painted plastic toys art, size 2,5 x 2 x 1,5 in and one plastic cube size and label, size 1 x 1 x 1 in
Hunter Cole, formerly Hunter O'Reilly, is an internationally shown artist and an experienced geneticist. She reinterprets science as art through the creation of living artworks, abstractions, digital art and installations confronting issues related to biotechnology in our culture. Cole holds a Ph.D. and Master's degree in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California-Berkeley.
Hunter Cole is frequently listed with other artists who create what is often referred to as bioart. Cole has taught both biology and art at Loyola University Chicago, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.
Hunter Cole creates Living Drawings with bioluminescent bacteria. These Living Drawings depict the cycle of life and death calling attention to our own mortality. On Petri dishes Cole creates controlled line drawings using bioluminescent bacteria. The bacteria grow, first appearing with bright light, then dim and gradually die off as available nutrients are depleted. Bacteria are photographed using a time-lapse technique over a two-week period. Bacteria become collaborators in the art as it grows and dies. Exhibitions have shown combinations of living bacterial drawings growing on Petri dishes, photographs, and a movie of the time-lapse photographs with music based on protein sequence found in the bacteria. Cole's Living Drawings were a part several exhibitions such as It's Alive! A Laboratory of Biotech Art presented at Monserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, Creative Adaptation in the Visual Arts presented at Concordia University Kreft Center for the Arts in Ann Arbor, MI, Glow presented at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, NC, The Summer of Abstractions presented at Syracuse Technology Garden, Syracuse, NY, and Living Drawings + Photographs by the Light of Bioluminescent Bacteria presented at Greyfriars Art Space in King's Lynn, Norfolk, United Kingdom. Cole's Living Drawings have also been exhibited at the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago, and the Honors College at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. Nature Genetics magazine featured Cole's Living Drawings on its cover.
Hunter Cole created music based on protein sequence found in bioluminescent bacteria accepted to SoundLAB VII -- soundCELEBRATION - 10 years - [NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||cologne.
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