Peeled Polymer Magnified (200 micrometers)This fall, Chronicle Books will publish On the Surface of Things,by Felice Frankel, award-winning artist in residence at MIT, and Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides. In the meantime, you can view some of these amazing photographsat the MIT Museum, as well as its website. Frankel documents cutting-edge research in biology, chemistry, physics, and other sciences using microscopic photography and digital imaging. Her work is infused with a keen aesthetic sense, "an essential and underutilized method of making science more accessible to the masses." More beautiful images are featured in Harvard Magazine's, Phenomenal Surfaces.
Science for Art?s Sake
NanoFuture Space 6 It's a small world for Alexa Smith, who uses a computer and a lively imagination to explore the frontiers of nanospace. "As one of the first nano artists, I have been creating art over the past several years portraying in abstract form the "spirit" of nanotechnology specifically and the excitement of future science generally. My latest series (NanoFuture: Space) is focusing on nanotechnology's possible benefit to space exploration." Her work is part of the NanoGallery at Nanothinc.
