The stars beneath our feet5/28/2023 The video component of the installation was made using a combination of TIRF (total internal reflection fluorescence) microscopy, dark field microscopy and a DSLR camera to produce moving images that focus on a perspective of micro-organisms that is other to that commonly used within scientific research. Using Atomic Force Microscopy, disturbances created by the micro-algae in the path of the microscope's laser beam were captured as data, analysed and translated using both sonification and audification techniques into sound files that were used to form the audio component of The Stars Beneath Our Feet. These microscopic organisms helped to create the conditions that enabled all life on earth and have the uncanny quality of resembling a sky filled with stars when viewed at scale. For The Stars Beneath Our Feet, their technology is appropriated to create an ambiguous perception of micro-algae: ancient photosynthetic organisms that absorb light and convert it into oxygen. Advanced microscopy techniques, which use lasers and computers instead of optics alter our sense of perception and might be considered as ‘looking without seeing’ and ‘listening without hearing'.
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