Have you ever wondered how other creatures see the world? Andrew Giger, a neuroscientist working on bee vision, has developed his own computer program to generate bee-eye views of the world. You can see the results, and generate some yourself, at the B-Eye website and gallery. "Part of my work involves training bees to discriminate between two different visual patterns," says Giger. "I wrote B-EYE as a tool to give me some idea what my bees perceive of the patterns I present them with."
Science for Art?s Sake
"I am interested in what impact the changes that emerge from contemporary scientific research will have on our culture -? socially, spiritually and physically," says photographer Catherine Wagner whose work is currently on view at New York's International Center of Photography (Uptown Gallery). Wagner photographs the subjects and objects of science, evoking interest in the specific use of an instrument or the nature of an experiment, as well as philosophical considerations about the validity of scientific work in general. A companion exhibit, Science Projects: A Taxonomy of Images presents a collection of over 100 photographs of scientific research, scientific evidence and technical documentation collected from Science Service Archives of the National Museum of American History/Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., dating from the 1930's to 1960's.
