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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory

University of Sunderland

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Title and brief description

Capsid - A glass sculpture visualising a virus

Type

L - Artefact

Location

The Barn, St Johns College, Oxford

Year of production

2011

URL

http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/383-3744/VIRUS---Bad-News-Wrapped-in-Protein.html

Number of additional authors

Additional information

Capsid is a water-jet cut optiwhite glass and perspex artwork suspended in a grid-like formation by vertical nylon wires, created in an attempt to visualize a viral capsid in the process of self-assembly or disassembly.

Capsid was commissioned for and exhibited at ‘Virus: Bad News Wrapped in a Protein’ a multi-disciplinary exhibition exploring visual and aesthetic responses to the power of viruses at St John’s College University of Oxford (10 September – 9 October 2011).

The Capsid, a protein shell of a virus, ‘is a biological, structural and mathematical marvel which is highly sophisticated and can be used creatively for the enhancement of human life through the engineering of better drug delivery methods. Rennie presents an artwork which explores this marvel and suspends it for viewing within an introspective grid’ (James Peto, curator of the Wellcome Trust Gallery, in Virus: Bad News Wrapped in Protein catalogue).

Interdisciplinary

Cross-referral requested

Research group

C - Design4Science

Proposed double-weighted

Double-weighted statement

Reserve for a double-weighted output

Non-English

English abstract