Art in Science: A Berkeley perspective
The Feb. 27-28 exhibit, “Art-in-Science: The intersection of image and research,” drew record crowds to see sculpture, painting, photography, origami, multi-media and digital art by scientists and artists — now or formerly at UC Berkeley — whose works portray the artistic face of science. The exhibit was sponsored by Science@Cal and the EBI.
February 26, 2014
The Feb. 27-28 exhibit, “Art-in-Science: The intersection of image and research,” drew record crowds to see sculpture, painting, photography, origami, multi-media and digital art by scientists and artists — now or formerly at UC Berkeley — whose works portray the artistic face of science. The slide show below provides a taste of the variety and beauty of the exhibits.
The exhibit was sponsored by Science@Cal and the Energy Biosciences Institute.
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory photographer Roy Kaltschmidt captured images of detectors inside the Daya Bay Neutrino Experiment, a joint venture between China and the United States to measure neutrino-oscillations.
A fluorescently tagged image of various parts of the plant cell by Jake Brunkard, a graduate student in the lab of Patricia Zambryski, a molecular, cellular and developmental biologist who studies communication between and within plant cells.
The photosynthetic organelles, called chloroplasts, in these plant cells are stained green, as are the thread-like stromules that provide communication between plant cells. Photo by Jake Brunkard, a graduate student in the lab of Patricia Zambryski, a molecular, cellular and developmental biologist who studies communication between and within plant cells.
"The Domestication of GYST," a painting by Mitch Altschuler, intellectual property manager for the Energy Biosciences Institute.
Clay model of a protein domain (a cellulose binding module) by Kathryn Strobel, a graduate student in the EBI laboratory of Doug Clark.
An image of anise printed directly onto the inner membrane of an egg using a gelatin light sensitive emulsion. The photograph is by Berkeley native and free-lance photographer Shoshana Zambryski-Stachel, daughter of UC Berkeley plant biology professor Pat Zambryski.
An image of a bouquet printed directly onto the inner membrane of an egg using a gelatin light sensitive emulsion. The photograph is by Berkeley native and free-lance photographer Shoshana Zambryski-Stachel, daughter of UC Berkeley plant biology professor Pat Zambryski.
EBI postdoc Timo Schuerg produced this image of the fungus Myceliophthora heterothallica, which shows the squeezed ripe fruiting bodies of a cross between two strains. These next generation strains of fungi may eventually provide sustainable transportation fuels.
Photo of a gall wasp atop its gall by Joyce Gross of the UC Natural History Museums. When these wasps lay their eggs in a plant, the plant creates a gall that protects the developing larvae.
“Parasitoid wasp, ” an image by Joyce Gross, a database and web programmer for the UC Berkeley Natural History Museums.
Bat origami by UC Berkeley alumnus (PhD '95), wildlife conservationist and origami master Bernie Peyton. Peyton's paper sculptures highlight wildlife conservation issues.
Scientific illustration of a fossil duck by Katie Bertsche, a Berkeley-based science and natural history illustrator who often does work for the campus's Natural History Museums.
Illustrations of the skull of a mososaur in the collection of the UC Museum of Paleontology by the museum’s first illustrator, Owen J. Poe. Mososaurs were the sea monsters of the Cretaceous Period 70 million years ago.
“Whirled White Web” by Carlo H. Séquin, EECS emeritus professor and computer graphics expert. The sculpture is a network of ribs and internal spaces suspended from a web of three mutually interwoven double loops.
“Minimal Trefoil,” a bronze sculpture designed by Carlo H. Séquin, EECS emeritus professor, to find the tightest configuration by which a chain of three saddles could be closed into a toroidal ring.
“Costa-Surface in a Cube,” a bronze sculpture by EECS emeritus professor Carlo H. Séquin illustrating the types of minimal surfaces that emerge from a cube.
“Torus Knot (5,3),” a bronze sculpture by Carlo H. Séquin, UC Berkeley professor emeritus of electrical engineering and computer science. Torus knots are generated from two prime numbers, in this case, 5 and 3.
"Emergent Spiral," from a video "Ghosts in the Machine" by Brian Farley, a postdoc in the Department of Molecular & Cell Biology who studies sexual reproduction in the ciliate Tetrahymena thermophile.
A kite-powered photograph of a sunset as seen from the crater of the dormant Antillanca volcano in Chile by Anand Varma, a UC Berkeley alum and contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine.
The Daya Bay Neutrino Facility in China by photographer Roy Kaltschmidt of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
John Alper of the EBI uses an electron microscope image of nanowires to create a digital image he calls "Nano Cityscape."
“Lightscapes,” a photograph by Jahlela Hasle, a senior studying cognitive neuroscience and music at UC Berkeley.
“Uromastyx,” a gouache painting by the late UC Berkeley herpetologist, guide book author and artist Robert Stebbins. Also known as spiny-tailed lizards, this genus inhabits areas around the Middle East and North Africa.
An interpretation by Adrian Van Allen of an 1882 teaching orrery, which was used to show the motions of the planets and moon around the sun.