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Philadelphia, PA—20 January 2009—sLowlife, a dynamic multimedia exhibition opening at the Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) Museum on 2 March 2009, presents unusual and sometimes unnerving perspectives on how a plant reacts, both short- and long-term, to its inner and outer worlds. The exhibition will be visiting CHF through December 2009.
Many of us think of and treat plants as inanimate objects. But a plant grows, reacts to changes in its environment, reproduces, responds to disease and injury, and undergoes a slow decline into old age and death—a saga that sounds hauntingly familiar. Contrary to our conscious perception, plants do move…be it ever so slowly.
Through vivid time-lapse photography and movies, sLowlife accelerates the time-scale of plants into our own frame of reference, speeding up their everyday lives to a pace that resonates with our own. The fascinating sounds accompanying sLowlife were created by nationally known composer John Gibson, Indiana University, using scientific data from the plant studies on which the exhibition is based. The gallery-style presentation also features concise text and live plant material.
Exhibition themes include: the Un-Still Life; Darwin’s Observations; Movement Above Ground; Movement Below Ground; Movement Within; Gene Activation; Photosynthesis; and the Power of Plants, which features selections from a nationwide photo contest to capture “the power of plants,” held in the summer of 2005.
sLowlife is a collaborative project of the United States Botanic Garden (USBG), the Chicago Botanic Garden and Roger Hangarter, Indiana University. Additional support has been provided by the American Society of Plant Biologists, Indiana University and the National Science Foundation. sLowlife is based on an original concept by Hangarter and Dennis DeHart, State University of New York. The traveling exhibition premiered at the USBG on 27 October 2005.
Admission to sLowlife at the Chemical Heritage Foundation museum is free. For more information, visit http://www.chemheritage.org. To view a companion guide to the exhibition, visit http://plantsinmotion.bio.indiana.edu/usbg.
About the Chemical Heritage Foundation
The Chemical Heritage Foundation serves the community of the chemical and molecular sciences, and the wider public, by treasuring the past, educating the present, and inspiring the future. CHF carries out a program of outreach and interpretation, in order to advance an understanding of the role of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies, and industries in shaping society; maintains a world-class collection of materials that document the history and heritage of the chemical and molecular sciences, technologies and industries; and encourages research in its collections. For more information, please visit http://www.chemheritage.org.
High-Resolution Image Downloads
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| sLowlife Montage |
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| Sprouts on Black |
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