BIOLOGY
"Dynamic model of a cell"
3D-mapping, video-audio-installation, 2011
Artist - Vladimir Grig
Scientific consultants - A. Efremov, P. Gurin
Animation directors - E. Degtyareva, M. Lushchik
It is impossible to see the contents of a living cell and the processes taking plac...
BIOLOGY
"Dynamic model of a cell"
3D-mapping, video-audio-installation, 2011
Artist - Vladimir Grig
Scientific consultants - A. Efremov, P. Gurin
Animation directors - E. Degtyareva, M. Lushchik
It is impossible to see the contents of a living cell and the processes taking place in it with the naked eye. And if the cell is enlarged to a gigantic size? It is this task that the authors of the "Dynamic model of a cell" object, made on a large scale, have solved. 3D video mapping technology allows you to recreate a reliable three-dimensional dynamic picture of intracellular processes. Two video projections are directed to the object from the side and show the processes taking place on the surface of the cell membrane.
Walking around the model, you can see them at different scales, as if enlarging the picture and observing the details. Above, on a cut of the model, an image is projected, allowing you to see what is happening inside the cell. Thus, the visitor personally observes the phenomena and elements that are noticeable only at very high magnification: pinocytosis, signal transmission into the interior of the cell, raft, checkpoints, lysosome, mitochondria, ribosomes, multivisicular compartment, nucleus, cytoskeleton.
"Portraits of Human Cells"
Video series, 2011
Artists - Vladimir Grig, Maxim Lushchik / Saint Petersburg /
Scientific consultants - A. Efremov, P. Gurin
The human body contains a huge number of cells that can be divided into professional groups. Each not only has its own work, but they also look different. Seven panels show seven films, edited from videos and photographs taken with a microscope. The visitor can see how a nerve cell (neuron), muscle cell, epithelial cell, one of the blood cells (erythrocyte), osteoblast, fibroblast, germ cells (sperm) really look like.
"Gene Expression"
Animated film, 2011
The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research / Australia /
Adaptation - Maxim Lushchik
Scientific consultants - A. Efremov, P. Gurin
The life of a living cell is controlled by a command post - DNA. This is where all the instructions for protein synthesis are stored. The film shows how one of the most important processes in the body takes place - gene expression. This is the process of copying certain sections of DNA, which generates RNA - postmen carrying information about the synthesis of necessary proteins into the ribosome. Thanks to this phenomenon, faceless stem cells acquire specialization predetermined by hereditary information, and the cell can perform its functions. Moreover, long-term arrest of gene expression leads to cell death. The video reflects all stages of the process - from initiation of expression on a DNA molecule to protein synthesis.
"Incubator of life"
Interactive installation
Animation films, dynamic objects.
Central Museum of Soil Science V.V. Dokuchaeva / Saint Petersburg /
Artist - Vladimir Grig / Saint Petersburg /
Scientific consultants - B. Aparin, E. Sukhacheva, P. Gurin
Animation directors - E. Degtyareva, M. Lushchik
Audio - V.Grig Inc.
1. "Sounds of the inhabitants of the soil"
Audio Object, 2011
Sounds made by the inhabitants of the soil are broadcast in the space of the object with great amplification. The viewer gets the opportunity to hear an audiophone that constantly accompanies the life of insects, but is absolutely inaudible by people. Therefore, at first glance, it may seem that a deaf silence reigns in the soil. But if you listen carefully, you can hear the rustle of ants making their way through the forest floor, the gurgling of earthworms crawling in the humid humus horizon, and many other sounds.
2. "Amoeba proteus"
Layout, 2011
Amoeba Proteus, the pinnacle of unicellular evolution, which was the most complex organism at the dawn of life, is now one of the simplest. It was amoebas that became the first inhabitants of land, creating conditions for the emergence of more complex forms of life. The body of the Proteus amoeba forms protrusions - pseudopods, which allow it to move at a speed decent for a microorganism - about 0.2 mm per minute.
The model allows not only viewing, but also touching and exploring the plastic properties of a creature that cannot be seen with the naked eye.
3. "City of bacteria"
Animated film, 2009
Bacteria are the invisible workers of the soil; life on earth is impossible without their work. One day in the life of the City of Bacteria.
4. "Journey of the Earthworm"
Animated film, 2009
The earthworm is endangered by ruthless predators, each of which wants to eat it. This forces the hero of the film to travel the hard way to finally be safe.
5. "Droplets" Animated film, 2009
Droplets of moisture, pouring rain on the ground, and then evaporating, thereby making a cycle, transfer nutrients to living organisms and plants.
6. "Subsoil matrix"
Animated film, 2011
A popular science animation film about the matrix, the "dispute" of life in our soil, which participates in the birth of all terrestrial species and feeds them. The organo-mineral matrix is a unique in its nature the fundamental principle of the soil, its "atom", which is different from dead howling of the breed, and from a living organism. It is a completely unique natural formation, which is still little studied. All life on our planet, in one way or another, is connected with it. Having learned the structure of the matrix and its role in the biosphere, mankind, perhaps, will reveal many more secrets. One of them is the emergence of life on Earth.
“Inside. Brain work "
Interactive educational exhibit, technology
Augmented Reality, 2011
PA "Techno-Art-Center" / Saint Petersburg /
Artist - Alexey Chebykin
The project was implemented with the participation of Dmitry Bulatov.
The project is an interactive illustration of the human brain using augmented reality technologies. On the screen, the viewer sees his own image and a picture of a three-dimensional model of the brain combined with it in real time with the designation of its zones and areas. Interacting with the exhibit, the visitor can receive scientific comments on any of the designated areas. By combining images, the effect of identifying the acquired scientific knowledge with a person's ideas about the functioning of his own brain is achieved.
"Mind and body fluids"
Interactive slideshow, 2011
Multimedia - Maxim Lushchik
Scientific consultant - Dmitry Zhukov
Scientific editor - Alexander Efremov
In everyday speech, hormones and pheromones have already become metaphors for emotional states.
This is partly true, because they are part of the humoral system that regulates the psyche and behavior. The visual and textual material included in the program of the exhibit will show how this system affects our mood, the perception of the world around us, our sense of self, our life.
PHYSICS
"Fractals"
Film - slideshow, 2011
Artist -Maxim Lushchik
What do plants, animal and human tissues, coastlines, clouds, snowflakes and space objects have in common? All of them are fractal objects built on the principle of self-similarity. The images on the plasma panel successively replace each other, allowing you to get an idea of what fractals are, to assess the variety of their shapes and the complexity of their structures, their prevalence in nature.
"Living fractal"
Interactive installation, 2011
Petrozavodsk State University
Authors - Alexey Shtykov, Vladlena Gromova, Artem Paramonov
A fractal is a complex geometric figure with the property of self-similarity.
A "living fractal" is a model of an artificial organism, an integral system consisting of several subsystems connected in series. Each subsystem is a separate exhibit demonstrating the phenomenon of self-organization.
The project was also attended by: Alexander Shcherbina, Andrey Matveev, Alexander Vissarionov, Maria Davydova.
"See the invisible"
Educational interactive exhibits, 2011
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Intergrafika LLC / Dubna /
Authors: Yuri Panebratsev, Ksenia Klygina, Nikita Sidorov, Sergei Balalykin, David Jincheradze, Anna Komarova, Nikita Kirilkin.
Visitors can expand their knowledge of the Universe through entertaining exhibits.
From quasars to quarks. The exhibit shows the sizes of the main objects of the Universe - from elementary particles to galaxies.
Sagan's calendar (chronology of the universe). An open calendar, where fifteen billion years of the life of the universe are represented on the scale of one terrestrial year.
"Physical Cabinet of Curiosities"
Interactive exhibits, 2007-2011
"Museum of Science" of the House of Scientists of the Trinity Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (DU TSC RAS)
A group of exhibits clearly demonstrates the various laws of physics:
Wood's cannon, Iron men with solar disks, Saturn, Yogi chair, Path of light bulbs, Battery man, Pendulums, Mirror for two, Drop hanging in the air, Strobotaumotrop, Camera obscura, Light guide with a secret.
"From illusions of the past to optical instruments of the present"
Interactive exhibits, 2011
"Museum of Entertaining Optics" of the St. Petersburg State University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics
A group of exhibits reconstructs optical toys of past centuries: zootrope, phenakistiscop, kaleidoscopes, anaglyphs, anamorphisms.
TECHNICS AND TECHOLOGY
Life Extension Technologies
Videos, 2005 - 2011
Scientific consultants: A. Efremov, E. Kokurina, L. Strelnikova, A. Kozlov.
A series of videos and animations about the latest medical technologies based on discoveries in genetics and molecular biology.
"In Vitro Fertilization". Video film, 2011.
"DNA Technologies". Video film, 2011.
"Radical Life Extension." Video film, 2011.
"Regenerative Medicine by Paolo Macchiarini". Video film, 2011.
"Development of a DNA vaccine against HIV in St. Petersburg." Video film, 2011.
"Cloning". Video film, 2001.
"Optical microscope / karyotype". Video film, 2005.
"Structural MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) of the brain." Video film, 2005.
3D Radiography / Human Skeleton. Video film, 2005.
"Development of a DNA vaccine against HIV in St. Petersburg." Animated film.
"Diagnostics using biochips". Animation film m, 2010.
"Neuro-computer and human-machine interfaces"
Group of interactive exhibits, 2011
Voronezh State University Science Museum
Authors - Sergey Kurgalin, Yaroslav Turovsky
Programming - A. Maksimov, A. Vakhtin
Circuitry - V. Zhogov
Four interactive exhibits demonstrate the work of modern human-machine and neurocomputer interfaces. Each exhibit consists of two parts: virtual-interactive and real, which allows users to feel in reality the effectiveness of the use of virtual technologies. Devices, picking up signals of physical or cognitive activity of a person, convert them into movement of mechanisms or computer signals. The "gaze control system" guides the movement of the self-propelled chassis, the "detection system" gives a signal when the visitor closes his eyes, the "model of bioprosthesis" allows you to control the hand prosthesis using devices that record the muscle activity of a person, the "mind printing device" allows you to type text using only data human electroencephalogram.
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