[From a recent article in WIRED by Katie Dean regarding the ART OF SCIENCE exhibit currently up at Princeton....hit the title to link to the entire article, images, etc.]
"...The 55 pieces in the exhibit are all the products of scientific research, or works of art that incorporate the ideas or tools of science. Part of the fun was discovering art usually only observed by researchers themselves.
"There's got to be all these images out there on campus that nobody ever sees," said Katalin Lovasz, a graduate student in comparative literature and one of the organizers of the competition.
The art includes a neon image of a virus infecting human cells; multicolored, magnified ants; an image of colliding galaxies; and a close-up of the genitalia of a spider. There's even a line drawing of Albert Einstein in a bustier.
"One thing that ties (art and science) together is they are both based so much on observation," said Alex Halderman, another of the organizers and a Ph.D. student in computer science who helps teach a digital-photography class. "The ability to look at something visually and then think about the meaning of what you are seeing is crucial as a research scientist or as an artist."
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