Lem wrote an SF story about this, long long ago. He wrote about a scientist who trained bacteria in petri dishes to grow in dots and dashes of morse code.

BTW - It is an artist (photographer) who did those Images.

Edited by author 06-24-2002 10:15 AM
BTW - It's a picture of a demolished WWII submarine bunker in Kiel, Germany. For all you people that just can't see the sub....


There is a larger pic at http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartdetail.asp...&group=&max_tn_page=


The text also says that Lissel also used microscope photographs of the bacteria themselves as negatives for the bacteria-photography. No pictures of that to be found though, too bad.

Ciao.

Saw that photo recently in Harper's. It's terrific--at first I thought I was looking at an old photo or daguerrotype or something. I wonder if he's made any more...

I did same kind of works one year ago (from last May) but I did not know when this piece of work was done. Who can tell me he knew this kind of work before May, 2001?