A lamp with a lampshade possessing a white ground and black stripes looking decorative but in fact is a metal conductor with live cells on a polymer structure within a bell shaped glass encasement with a green tint, similar to a cloche, inside a larger bell shaped glass encasement having two plug-like appendages with stoppers. A glass extension continues under the small base of the lamp housing five cylindrical metal posts with an outer metal band surrounding the bottom circumference that connects to the inner technology.

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Lamp, Half Life

This is a lamp. It was designed by Joris Laarman Lab.

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Groninger Museum as part of Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age.

It is dated 2010. Its medium is glass, cobalt chrome, genetically modified cho cells.

The Half Life Lamp is a bioluminescent lamp made of genetically-enriched cells that glow in the dark, created with the University of Twente in the Netherlands. The cells, now dead, were added as a thin layer on the lamp's ͞shade.͟ The project investigates a future in which objects may be alive.

It is credited Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.

Video, Half Life Lamp: Documentary about making of Half Life Lamp

Video, Half Life Lamp: Documentary about making of Half Life Lamp
video.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.19a

A coffee table carved from a translucent, cloudy marble consisting of two parts elegantly designed using 3D animation software to capture the puffiness and flat bottom of an actual Cumulus cloud formation. The table’s form is inverted so the flat area is on the top and the larger cotton-like formations function as legs. There is a reflection of a window right of center. The table is installed on a solid white backdrop.

Table, Cumulus small
striato olimpico marble.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.48

Video, Forest table: Algorithm Pattern Forest Table

Video, Forest table: Algorithm Pattern Forest Table
video.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.27a

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Video, Cumulus: Simulation of formation of clouds

Video, Cumulus: Simulation of formation of clouds
video.
Courtesy of Groninger Museum, the Netherlands.
83.2016.25a

Its dimensions are

H x diam.: 30 × 15 cm (11 13/16 × 5 7/8 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2uaRJr/
Accession Number 83.2016.69
Object ID 975141961