Swift Society Lecture Series

ANDREW PELLING & ANNE NIEMETZ
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2004
Reception: 7pm / Lecture: 8pm RSVP ONLY

Singing cells, art, science and the noise in between

Andrew Pelling, working with Professor Jim Gimzewski at UCLA recently demonstrated that the cell wall of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Bakers Yeast) exhibits local oscillating motion at characteristic frequencies which is not caused by random processes (SCIENCE Magazine). By converting the motion into audio, Gimzewski and Pelling developed a new discipline known as Sonocytology, which is the diagnosis and characterization of cell state with sound. Media artist Anne Niemetz and Andrew Pelling first met while working together on the sound design for the NANO exhibition, which was on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2003/2004. In their presentation “Singing cells, art, science and the noise in between”, Niemetz and Pelling will give an overview of the scientific basis and discovery of Sonocytology and the artistic realization of their concert.