WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:30.400 --> 00:00:34.960 the microbial worlds exhibit is  a collection of works created by   00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.760 13 different artists who are focusing on different   00:00:38.320 --> 00:00:45.600 aspects of the microbial world from their visual  beauty to their ubiquity how widespread they are   00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:57.840 in nature and many of the important roles that  they play in human and environmental health   00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:07.360 this is a group of 16 artists and over  a period of 16 months they spent time   00:01:07.360 --> 00:01:14.400 with a group of scientists so their work is  really very well informed and they've taken   00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:19.120 those scientific studies and  reinterpreted them in their media   00:01:22.880 --> 00:01:29.520 think about time not just seconds ticking away on  your wrist but whatever it was before earth was   00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:37.680 assembled when there was nothing and then there  was something some vast expansion a singular event   00:01:37.680 --> 00:01:46.880 when time began its measured ply one billion years  and then another until the first minuscule micro   00:01:46.880 --> 00:01:53.840 rose from chemical stew deciphered  the sun's energy and made its own food 00:01:58.720 --> 00:02:03.280 we work with scientists and  learned a lot of different things   00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:10.720 and the work that i did for the show i told  a story i tried to you know within the piece   00:02:10.720 --> 00:02:18.400 talk about um sometimes things over time or uh  that sort of thing so that people would have a a   00:02:18.400 --> 00:02:23.360 a better understanding of what's  going on in just an ordinary landscape   00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:35.840 my medium are found objects  there are pieces of junk and   00:02:36.400 --> 00:02:43.440 pieces of old things that i don't care what  they are but i work with them and arrange   00:02:43.440 --> 00:02:50.640 them in architectural spaces to emphasize  their relationship to one another and light 00:02:56.080 --> 00:03:01.360 the greatest level of diversity that we  have in life is within the microbial world   00:03:02.480 --> 00:03:05.920 and it's also kind of an amazing world full of   00:03:07.200 --> 00:03:12.240 gee-whiz discoveries of things that are  otherwise invisible that you might not think of   00:03:12.240 --> 00:03:17.120 and then once you look into a microscope or  take a sample and grow it you start to realize   00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:21.280 how much is really out there and all the  important things that those microbes are doing   00:03:22.320 --> 00:03:28.000 such as helping with the carbon and nutrient  cycles for the ecosystem keeping plants healthy   00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:33.920 keeping humans healthy and even  cleaning up contaminated soil and water 00:03:41.120 --> 00:03:45.840 well we're dealing with a global pandemic  right now which i'm sure hasn't gone   00:03:46.480 --> 00:03:54.000 unnoticed by anyone and i think it's a time  when we've got a global pandemic we talk about   00:03:54.000 --> 00:04:01.920 our own gut microbiomes the influence they have  on us i think we're becoming so much aware of how   00:04:02.800 --> 00:04:10.960 we're influenced by microbes and how important  they are to our well-being well i hope that when   00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:16.800 people leave the exhibit that they feel astonished  by what they've learned about the microbial world   00:04:16.800 --> 00:04:23.200 through the eyes of all the igoc artists and  after viewing the exhibit that they have new   00:04:23.200 --> 00:04:29.920 awarenesses that spark their curiosity about the  natural world and that what a mysterious wondrous   00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:41.840 intersection and relationship we have with  microbes in our lives and how they influence us