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		Neal White - Uncontrolled Hermetic
		Uncontrolled Hermetic remodels the activities and methods of the controlled areas or clean rooms used by scientists and manufacturers to conduct experiments and build specialist equipment. The visitor fulfils the final part of this system, as the contaminating or contaminated body, the weakest link in the ultraclean technology chain: a human being. The installation features a single life-size human figure 'bagged' in a bunny suit made of felt. The figure stands outside a clean room, which houses a Victorian drawing machine that makes self-generated drawings.  Neal White co-founded the arts and technology group Soda in 1996. Using installation, sculpture, book works and digital media, his work has engaged with the methods, structures, systems and agendas relating to scientific and technological development. Neal White became interested in clean rooms whilst working on recent projects in genetics and pharmaceutical laboratories in the UK at the Human Genome Mapping Project and Pfizer Research and during a research visit to space laboratories in Marseille, France  GALLERY OLDHAM, Oldham, Greater Manchester, UK 5 October - 30 November 2002 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, Cromwell Road, London SW7, UK 20 June - 3 August 2003 Neal White CV Return to Biotechnology home page