Tag Archives: Photography

Looking back from beyond the Moon: how views from space have changed the way we see Earth

Dr Alice Gorman is an internationally recognised leader in the field of space archaeology. She is an Associate Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, where she teaches the Archaeology of Modern Society.
Her research focuses on the archaeology and heritage of space exploration, including space junk, planetary landing sites, off-earth mining, rocket launch pads and antennas.
She is a member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Advisory Council of the Space Industry Association of Australia and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Her book ‘Dr Space Junk vs the Universe: Archaeology and the Future’ (2019) won the Mark and Evette Moran NIB People’s Choice Award for Non-Fiction and the John Mulvaney Book Prize, awarded by the Australian Archaeological Association. It was also shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Adelaide Festival Literary Awards.

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.

Reimagining Joya: Bringing Joya Residency experiences to the Thames-Side Studios Gallery

‘Reimagining Joya’ is an exhibition inspired by the experiences and artistic responses of a group of artists who have all participated in Joya: Art + Ecology / AiR residency. The artists involved, alumni from the MA Art & Science, from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, invite us to connect with the ecosystems we inhabit.

How the James Webb deep field images reminded me the divide between science and art is artificial

Cherine Fahd is an artist and academic working in photography and video performance. Cherine has a PhD from Monash University and is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at University of Technology Sidney. Cherine’s current research focuses on the ways photography and portraiture bring people together, facilitate trust and build social connections. She writes broadly on photography and creativity practice, publishing across various platforms, including The Conversation, academic journals, and art and design contexts. Her artistic projects have been exhibited and commissioned nationally and internationally, including for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Sydney Opera House; Carriageworks, Sydney; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; and the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan, among others.

James Webb telescope: a scientist explains what its first, amazing images show – and how it will change astronomy

Martin Barstow is Professor of Astrophysics and Space Science, University of Leicester.
He is also the president of the Royal Astronomical Society and Pro-Vice Chancellor as well as Head of the College of Science & Engineering. He is chair of the Space Telescope Institute Council, which will operate James Webb Space Telescope. He is already working on proposals for an even larger space telescope to follow that.
Martin’s research interests are the study of hot white dwarf stars and the surrounding interstellar medium. He has been involved in many space missions during his career, including NASA’s Voyager probes, which travelled to the outer planets of the Solar System. More recently he has worked on the Hubble Space Telescope helping to develop the plans for the final servicing mission, which took place in May 2009. He leads the Leicester contribution to the ESA Gaia mission.

Collaborating with Living Matter

Darya Warner works at the intersection of art and science by bridging growth/connections with human and non-human actors through the prism of Climate Change. By addressing site-specific history, ecology, and local systems of communication, Darya aims to cultivate a new form of hybrid space for “intermatter” interaction with an emphasis on the interconnectivity of intelligence across species.

Gabrielle Hoad – The Luminous Envelope: visualising the invisible

The Luminous Envelope is a body of contemporary photographic work developed in response to a historic plaster model of Fresnel’s Wave Surface. Created in the 19th century as a teaching aid, the Fresnel model sought to communicate abstract concepts in tangible form. It is drawn from an equation that describes the double refraction of light in a particular type of crystal. The Luminous Envelope is used as a way of reflecting on this process of transcription (from equation to physical object), and on the gap between the world and our representations of it.

Planktonium

Planktonium is a photo series and short film about the unseen world of microscopic plankton. It is a voyage into a secret universe, inhabited by alien-like creatures. Jan van IJken filmed the plankton through his microscopes, revealing the beauty and delicate structures of the minute organisms in the finest detail. These stunningly beautiful organisms are unknown to most of us, because they are invisible to the naked eye. However, they are of vital importance for the ecosystem.

COVID-19: Thinking with Art

Matej Peljhan is a clinical psychologist by profession and works as a psychotherapist. He holds the title ‘Master of Photography’, which is the highest title you can obtain in Slovene photography. He has presented his work at 20 independent exhibitions in Slovenia and abroad, and has received over a hundred prizes.

In his photographic series, COVID-19: THINKING WITH ART, he closely monitored the changes and consequences that occur in the mental and social life of people during a pandemic.