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Science images can capture attention and pique curiosity in a way words alone can’t

Science photographer Felice Frankel is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the department of Chemical Engineering with additional support from Mechanical Engineering. She joined MIT in 1994.
Frankel is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was previously a Senior Research Fellow in Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences in the Initiative for Innovative Computing (IIC), and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Systems Biology.

Ways of Seeing at 50: an icy blast of a book about male voyeurism, art, capitalism and so much more

Joanna Mendelssohn is Honorary (Senior Fellow) School of Culture and Communication University of Melbourne. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, The University of Melbourne. Her first book was the seminal study on Sydney Long (1979). This was followed by a series of studies on Lionel Lindsay. Her most recent book, co-authored with Catherine De Lorenzo, Alison Inglis and Catherine Speck, is Australian Art Exhibitions: Opening our eyes, (T&H 2018). This project is the culmination of an ARC Linkage Project with UNSW, University of Melbourne and University of Adelaide in partnership with the National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of South Australia and Museums Australia.

INTERFACING

INTERFACING was a project in 2021 bringing together scientists and patients to discuss the current role of data in pancreatic cancer research. The aim of the workshop was to spark new conversations and re-frame the context of qualitative research whilst creating a piece of new artwork that represented this. The workshop acted as a safe and open online space to discuss the use of personal data in a medical research setting, explaining it’s current role in training AI models to diagnose and predict pancreatic cancer at an earlier stage.

Curating Art and Science Collaborations

Esther Mallouh is an arts entrepreneur. She launched her arts curatorial career in Istanbul, Turkey in 1990. Her fascination with the interpretative power of the arts has fuelled her drive to conceptualize distinct art and scientific themes. Since 1993, she has been curating exhibitions at the intersection of science and the arts delving into intriguing concepts that attract explorative enquiries and collaborations between renown scientists and artists.

Todd Sformo: Creator of Evidence – An Incomplete Metamorphosis

“This essay is about a transition from the humanities to the sciences (life science). It shows the hesitancy in giving up one thing for another, but the hesitancy itself turns out to be not just frustrations in trying to learn something new but also the opportunity to situate science in a humanities’ context.” – Todd Sformo

Genetics, art and communication

Dr Ahna Skop is a Professor in the Department of Genetics and an affiliate faculty member in Life Sciences Communication and the UW-Madison Arts Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She mentors both scientists and art students in her lab, and also serves on the board of the Wisconsin Science Museum, where many of her artscience collaborations are on display. Some of her work can be seen in the main entrance of the Genetics/Biotechnology Center building on the UW-Madison campus with a 40ft-scientific art piece called “Genetic Reflections”. She has also curated and contributed to a traveling exhibition of scientific art called “TINY: Art from microscopes” from the UW-Madison campus, and she has organized the bi-annual Worm Art Show for the International C. elegans Meeting for over 24 years. Ahna is a winner of the prestigious Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

The Art of Science

‘The Art of Science’ explores the work of 40 artists and artist–scientists, from different cultures and eras, uncovering how these innovators have designed futuristic technology centuries ahead of its time, investigated time and space through abstract art, and created sculpture informed by Nasa technology.

‘The Art of Science’ explores topics such as: Climate breakdown and conservation ; Deep space and cosmic archaeology ; How media is used to communicate ideas relating to science ; Exploring being human alongside biotechnology ; and AI and Neural Networks.

How children can learn to balance science and religion

Liam Guilfoyle is a Postdoctoral Research Officer, University of Oxford, working on the Oxford Argumentation in Religion and Science (OARS) project, funded by the Templeton World Charity Foundation. He is particularly motivated by exploring the challenges and possibilities for teachers drawing on educational research for classroom practice and to this end, he is a member of the Teaching Council’s Research Engagement Group (REG) in Ireland, which works to promote teachers’ engagement with and in research. Liam also serves as a reviewer for the International Journal of Science Education and NARST: A Worldwide Organization for Improving Science Teaching and Learning through Research.

Revealing Affinities between Art and Science

Philip F. Palmedo studied art history and physics as an undergraduate at Williams College, and received his PhD in nuclear engineering from MIT. He carried out nuclear reactor physics research at the French nuclear laboratory at Saclay and at Brookhaven National Laboratory. He then initiated and headed the International Resources Group and the Long Island Research Institute. He has written extensively in many areas, including several books on modern sculpture. His most recent book is ‘Deep Affinities: Art and Science’, on which this article is based.