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GOING GRAY BLUE MORPH

10 MAY 2012 14 SEPTEMBER 2012
CNSI PRESENTATION SPACE THE SCIENCE GALLERY DUBLIN

Going Gray looked at the seemingly Blue Morph was a part of the MAGICAL
frivolous aspect of dyeing/not dyeing MATERIALS exhibition at The Science
one’s hair to explore questions about Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. The
aging and current cultural attitudes interactive installation used nanoscale
towards the graying of America. The images and sounds derived from the
exhibition included video clips from a metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a
documentary in-progress, photographs, butterfly.
and mixed media.
An on-going collaboration between media
This exhibition was part of a two-day artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscientist
symposium hosted and organized by the James Gimzewski, Blue Morph takes its
Institute for Society and Genetics, name from the Blue Morph butterfly,
“Genetics and Aging.” The symposium whose blue color is not a result of
plumbed the intersection of biological pigmentation, but actually patterns and
science and artistic production to structures on a nanoscale. The extremely
explore the Art of Aging—including fine lamellated scale covering the
both the artistic and scientific Morpho’s wings reflect incident light
representations of growing older, and repeatedly at successive layers, leading
the process of adapting gracefully to to interference effects that depend on
aging as individuals and as a society. both the wavelength and the angle of
observance. The interference of light
due to multiple reflection within the
highly uniform structural arrangement
of the scale gives the butterfly
its fantastic colour. The lamellate
structure of their wing scales has been
studied as a model in the development
of fabrics, dye-free paints, and anti-
counterfeit technology.

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