Waag Society Fablab Amsterdam

The VASTAL Virginarium is a six person Glove Box artistically designed by Adam Zaretsky and Mason Juday. The glove box is being made using the WAAG Society¹s FabLab laser cutting and rapid prototyping machinery. It is designed to provide a sterile field for Bioart Laboratories. But it is also designed for public performances, which revolve around cultural interpretive issues of purity, sterility and cleanliness. Much like a sterile hood used in biology for pure culture technique, this glove box has Positive air pressure. This means VASTAL Virginarium is "pumped up² with more HEPA filtered air then the surrounding space outside the cleanspace of the glovebox. The twelve ports correspond to twelve rubber gloves which make it possible for six people to collaborate on aseptic art projects/performances which are to be held inside the glove box.