Joppe Boots

Videos

The main part of the collection is shown by using double sided projections on tall hanging projection screens. In this ‘maze-like’ area u can walk through and under the constantly changing projections. A single subject/video is shown on all the textiles at once. Each one however gets a different bit of the projection, so all screens are unique. 

Depending on the subject and video the projections change into a new video. Some of the videos are shown and projected for about 30 seconds, while others may take 2 or 3 minutes. There is no strict routing through the area, feel free to follow vision and hearing and experience the ever-changing forms of microbiological cell-structures. 

The following video’s are shown on the hanging projection textiles:

Computer generated 

A collection of videos of cells, bacteria and molds growing, multiplying and slowly taking on new forms and situations. 

Come Together, Chemotaxis in Dictyostelium discoideum (2019), Dirk Brockmann.

A behaviour observed in organisms, such as amoeba and slime mold, showing a single-cell organism self-assembling into a multi-cellular ‘slug’. 

Hopfen Turingles (2018), Dirk Brockmann, Benjamin F. Maier. 

Reaction Diffusion; Sensing the shape of a cell with energy minimisation. 

Scotts World (2018), Dirk Brockmann.

Pattern Formation in Microbial Communities

Particularly Stuck (2017), Janina Schöneberger, Dirk Brockmann. 

A kinetic process driven by randomly diffusing particles that gives rise to fractal structures, reminiscent of things and growth patterns we see in natural systems. 

Colonial chrysophytes, Synura uvella(2013), Wim van Egmond, Delft. 

Cytoplasmic streaming in slime mold(2020), Wim van Egmond, Delft. 

Smooth Life Visualisations (2022), Joppe Boots

This generative projection shows how complexity arises from simplicity. LIfe shows complex virtual ‘organisms’ arising out of the interaction of a few simple rules of multiplying and movement. 

Voronoi visualitsations (2022), Joppe Boots

One of the base forms of cell structures. The projection keeps ever changing and forming new cells. Variations are shown, showcasing the stretching or amplifying of cells 

Nanotomy Atlas (2022), TU Delft. 

A project made by the faculty of Applied Physics which tries to make a ‘google maps’ version of cells. The video pans around the cell and slowly zooms in more and more, revealing even more structures and parts of the cell. 

Begone Dull Care (1949), Directed by Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren

Music by: Oscar Peterson

Audio

To make the exhibition an immersive experience the different area’s inside the space are accompanied by various abstract pieces of music. They are played after each other and the moment between two songs forms 1,30min. of silence. The projections and video’s keep going.  Then the sound re-appears. 

The following pieces of music are played in the exhibition:

Brian Eno Studies 12: Organa 2 (1996), Brian Eno

A piece of generative music that was lost and revived decades later.  Calm and an almost organic/nature feeling of sound. 

Limoux (2022), Joppe Boots

A simple improvisation on an arpeggio-synth indicating the many multiplications happing in the micro world of cells

Ensemble for Somnambulists, ft. Aase Nielsen (2022), album: X, Wheel, artist: Heith

A bit more mysterious but still abstract sounds. This is played while showcasing the Voronoi generated structured. 

Briefly (2022), album: Music for Animals, artist: Nils Frahm

A modern abstract piece with a lot of unique sounds. The total length of the piece is 27min. In the exhibition this will be cut into shorter pieces mixed through the total sum of sounds. 

Beyerinck and van Iterson

In this area there are two led screens. They showcase the drawings made by Gerrit van Iterson, Martinus Beyerinck and Henriëtte Beyerinck. The drawings reveal the findings of the Delft Pioneers, showing for example the mathematical and growth side of cell structures. They are alternately shown with the beautiful plant drawing of Henriëtte Beyerinck. 

Gerrit van Iterson

Carica microcarga. Onderwijsplaat met schematische weergaven van doorsneden door Carica microcarpa.

Euphorbia broteri. Onderwijsplaat met vergrote afbeelding van microscopische weergave van de bladdoorsnede met melksapcellen van Euphorbia broteri.

Geen titel. Onderwijsplaat met schematische weergave van lengtedoorsnede door stengel van Linum usitatissimum, aangetast door Glambolacter pectinorum.

Henriëtte Beyerinck. 

Geen titel. Botanische onderwijsplaat met schematische weergave van een onbekend verschijnsel. 

Geen titel. Botanische onderwijsplaat met schematische weergave van een onbekend verschijnsel. 

Botanische onderwijsplaat die schematisch het verschijnsel divergentie weergeeft.

Onderwijsplaat, uitgevoerd in kleur, met zowel micro- als macroscopische weergaven van het blad van een onbekende plant.

Onderwijsplaat met twee gekleurde, macroscopische afbeeldingen van plantenonderdelen aangetast door de galwespen Dryophanta folii en Dryophanta taschenbergi. Daarnaast twee vergrotingen van microscopische weergaven.

Botanische onderwijsplaat die schematisch de verschijnselen bladstelling en divergentie weergeeft.

Botanische onderwijsplaat met schematische weergave van een onbekend verschijnsel.

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

To bring and connect everything together, the main center of the exhibition space forms a small dark room. The first thing u see is the microscope made by van Leeuwenhoek. When walking further there is a comfortable piece of furniture to sit/lay on. In this area the letters written by Antoni van Leeuwenhoek are read out loud and played through a couple of speakers. On the ceiling there is a continuous projection showcasing his drawings and observations. 

We see a connection with the abstract and modern videos projected earlier. Antoni saw a lot of these details with his impeccable microscope and continued to write about them to the London Royal Society. 

Microbiology Photography