Today’s activities were really interesting to me. I find the more engaging activities to be much more fun. The lab visits and question-and-answer style lectures are just that. I found the gadgets that take images of the shadows of blood cells to be really cool, but I don’t know how practical it is to use […]
Today we learned about all the different kinds of microscopes. I don’t remember all of them but the one that made an impression the most was the one where the depth and texture of the sample was determined by a needle being rolled over the surface and a laser being pointed to the top of […]
“Seeing the Invisible” was the topic of the day. This morning started with an introduction to the perpetual cycle facilitated by art and science begat by the Renaissance. From the coordinate plane to the camera, perspective became an essential part to the physical and artistic world. Louis Pasteur opened up the door to the microscopic […]
Day 1: Top-Bottom; Bottom-Up Macro. Micro. Large. Small. This is what differentiates the visual world from the invisible. Today, we learned about the different microscopes used by scientists to accommodate the growing field of nanotechnology. Among these include compound microscopes, electron microscopes, field ion microscopes, and scanning tunneling microscopes. Truly, the human eye has evolved […]
The next item on my ADWT list is Symbiotica, an artistic laboratory ( i love this term ) , which is dedicated to helping artists and researchers engage in wet biology practices in a biological science department. Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr from the Tissue Culture and Art Project are the two artists behind the […]
Below you’ll find some examples of artwork that clearly are inspired by scientific concepts . Although it might seem that it is artists who add scientific concepts to their repertoire, there are certain cases where scientists were inspired by artists / artistic concepts/artworks . In a time where most definitions (hence boundaries) are melting into […]
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