A project created by:
Team bacterial superpowers:
Julia Brandl
Lorenz Manuel Eckl
Gerald Geier
Sàra Ágnes Rajnai
In cooperation with the University of applied Arts Vienna, Design Investigations and Natural history museum Vienna
Technical support and assistance from:
Birgit Hertel, Matthias Harzhauser, Bernhard Brandl, Rainer Doppler, Sarah Wilhelmy, Daniel Prem
With our animation we want to give the visitor a new perspective on bacteria and what they are capable of doing. We see the
fossile as a starting point in evolution, an empty vessel open to all kinds of possible developments. This kicked off our
project as we discovered that the majority of life exists in bacteria. With our questions we came to Matthias Harzhauser to
get a better insight on how bacteria already did influence our path of evolution.
They thrive even in the most uninhabitable places on earth and they stand for the preseverance of life. Through this project
we were able to see how coincidental existence really is.
We created another version of the past where the gabonionta did not go extinct but found a new ally – bacteria. Together they
morphed into a new species, the Creatix Arbor. It is able to dig into the sediment and to gather nutrients in order to thrive
and develop into a new age of life.