Art for Science’s Sake
(Posted June 12, 1998 · Issue 32)

Mouse fibroblasts (160x), Fluorescence
1997 1st Place Winner
Barbara A. Danowski
Department of Biology, Union College
Schenectady, New York, USA
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"A photomicrograph is a technical document that can be of great significance to science or industry. But a good photomicrograph is also an image whose structure, color, composition and content is an object of beauty." The Nikon Small World Gallery is a celebration of the beauty of micrography. Don't miss their call for entries for the International Small World Competition - open to anyone with an interest in photography through the microscope.

Lost Referential was one of three winning entries in Lightforms '98, an International Competition and Exhibition of Light Art at the New York Hall of Science. The artists LP Demers & Bill Vorn apply the principles of artificial life to an interactive kinetic light architecture. An individual's heartbeat triggers the pulse of "flocking" lightbeams as the flow of the audience itself becomes an integral part of the work.

Drug molecules from Gayle Gross de Nunez and SAVANTES: Traveler on the Yellow Wave by William S. Burroughs; (Issue 30 · posted May 29, 1998)
Frog Reconstructions from The Whole Frog Project: Desert Iguana by Carol Selter; (Issue 28 · posted April 17, 1998)
Images from Nature,: an illustrated catalog from London's Natural History Museum; (Issue 25 · posted February 20, 1998)
Breath Taken: The Landscape & Biography of Asbestos,: an exhibition by Bill Ravanesi; (Issue 24 · posted January 30, 1998)
Doomsday by Ulla Godwin: Excerpt from Metropolis by Fritz Lang; (Issue 21 · posted December 5, 1997)
Open Heart Surgery Movie from The Franklin Institute Science Museum: Donor Lymph Nodes by Max Aguilera-Hellweg; (Issue 20 · posted November 14, 1997)
Banana Exploding by Andrew Davidhazy, and: Nature Reborn by Ming Fay; (Issue 18 · posted October 17, 1997)
Lincoln by Bela Julesz and Leon Harmon, and: Keith/four times by Chuck Close; (Issue 17 · posted October 2, 1997)
Human, full body scan by Meditherm, and: Recollections by Ed Tannenbaum; (Issue 16 · posted September 19, 1997)
Praying Mantis by Kenneth J. Stein, and: StareCase by Alan Dorin; (Issue 15 · posted September 5, 1997)