Art-On-Chip: Exploring Point-of-Care devices & Organs-on-chips
Could we recreate outside our bodies our own emotions to look at them, learning from them, be more confident with our own inside emotions? Can we create emotions-on-a-chip?
Heart design on a PDMS/glass microfluidic chip with blue liquid pigments. 26x76 mm │ Photo credit: Vincent Petitgas
The Art-on-Chip project explores cutting-edge scientific research tools as a substrate for exploring our own emotions.
Organs-on-Chips are mostly made by etching on transparent polymers. The microchannels thus created serve to reproduce the main function of human organs with precise cell culture. Fluids such as blood with drugs, microplastics (…) are injected into the chip to study how cells react, reducing animal testing.
These technologies are beginning to be used in medical devices around the world and represent the coming biotechnology revolution, thanks to the miniaturisation of bioanalysis.
Julien Ridouard is using this technology to explore our own emotions, recreating outside our bodies our own to look at it, learn from it and be more confident with our own inside. Can we create emotions-on-a-chip?
Ongoing project. Collaboration with Blackhole Lab and Elvesys Innovation Center.
Acknowledgements:
Sébastien Cargou, Guilhem Velve Casquillas, Christa Ivanova, Camila Betterelli Giuliano, Audrey Nsamela, Robin Oliveres, Thomas Guerinier, Benjamin Sévénié, Shima Momeni Azandariani and all the teams at Blackhole Lab and Elvesys.
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