Scientific Visualization
Vibeke Sorenson, from the California Institute of the Arts, has published this paper on The Contribution of the Artist to Scientific Visualization (the use of computer graphics to represent data, usually in three dimensions). Included are suggestions as to how to better integrate artists and scientists into Scientific Visualization efforts, and examples from industry and...
Read MoreBetter Science Through Art
This article discusses the commonalities between science and art. It argues that because of these commonalities, taking an artistic approach to science offers some significant advantages.
Read MoreThe Art of the Naturalist
Acorn Naturalists is a company that sells nature educational supplies. They carry an array of products designed to aid in developing educational lessons about nature using the arts.
Read MoreI’m Bringin’ Stickleback
Science blog “The Scorpion and the Frog” highlighted this trio of science music videos. Enjoy musical parodies on fish genetics, climate change, and reproduction.
Read MoreThe “Dance Your Ph.D.” Contest
A Ph.D. thesis in any science can be overwhelmingly esoteric and technical. This makes for ripe material for interpretive dance. The “Dance Your Ph.D.” contest awards cash prizes for the best videos of people’s dances representing their Ph.D. thesis research.
Read MoreTheater & Math
Victoria Gould has pursued a strange set of parallel paths through intellectual space: she has been a successful actor and a mathematician, working first as a researcher and now as a teacher and communicator of math. Recently she helped develop a theater production called ‘A disappearing number‘, on the collaboration between a famous English mathematician and an unknown Indian...
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