Junctures - The Journal for Thematic Dialogue
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Trapping Ultra-cold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Get PDFMy research, which is built on strict physical rules, seems very far from the creative work of an artist, but as Valerie Hazan asserts, artists and scientists are “both manipulating reality to understand it.” In the Art and Light project I paired with artist Lynn Taylor, who describes below how the Trapping Atoms collaboration unfolded over the ten months that we worked together - Petra FerstererHow ‘we’ see the world is subjective. If we consider Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the body as a perceptual tool—“we live in a world of sense-experience and what we can touch and feel, see and hear, is the sum of our reality”4—it raises important questions about how and what we perceive. Humans develop an understanding of object permanence, but does what we see exist when it is out of sight? - Lynn Taylor
Light, Art and Science Meet in the Gallery
Get PDFThe Art and Light Project in Dunedin was part of the programme of the UNESCO Year of Light and Light-Based Technoligies. It was generously supported by the University of Otago, the Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, the Otago Museum and the Dunedin School of Art at the Otago Polytechnic. It was also assisted by a grant from Creative New Zealand through the Creative Communities Scheme locally managed by the Dunedin City Council.This edition of Junctures contains papers further developed by some of the artists and scientists as a result of their cooperation and experience. It embellishes the brief introduction to their work already published in the catalogue and serves as a further tribute to the creative energy expendedover that eight-month period
Scientific Reification
Get PDFIn the Embodied Earth installation, part of the Art and Light Exhibition held 15-30 August 2015 in the HD Skinner Annex of the Otago Museum in Dunedin, the viewer sensorially experiences lightning strikes in synchronicity with actual terrestrial lightning events occurring over a large swathe of the Earth’s surface via a live data stream. Viewers face a large projection screen on which they can see themselves in silhouette. My design intends the viewer to don a haptic jacket and move freely, as a live data stream, translated into animated lightning flashes, tracks the viewer’s screen position, appearing to strike the wearer’s upper body. In association with with the visual cue, the viewer would feel a strong vibration at the point of apparent lightning contact, concurrent with a synchronised subwoofer signal that pulsates their body with a short burst of low-frequency sound
Exhibition Installation: Art and Light Project 2015 Exhibition
No full textCOLLABORATIONS BETWEEN ARTISTS AND SCIENTISTSExhibition Installation:Art and Light Project 2015 Exhibitio
