Empirical snow crystal replicas in artistic implementation
| 2017 |
| ACE-06.02.17_1030UTC_ScottIland-Antarctica |
| ACE-09.02.17_0210UTC-RossSea-Antarctica |
| ACE-06.02.17_1010UTC_ScottIland-Antarctica |
| ACE-09.02.17_0225UTC-RossSea-Antarctica |
| Serie: «Snowflake Capture» |
| glass plate with formvar replicas, LED panel, polarizor film |
| 30 x 30 cm |
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Who is the author?
The artist wasn't present!
The project develops from the combination of two disciplines and the convergence of their points of view. The dialogue between artist and scientists explores commonalities such as applied methods and tools as well as visualisation. The aim is to convey the procedures of contemporary science to a wider audience in an intuitive and tangible way. Researchers not only create the most impressive real images of our world today, but they also shape our awareness of it.
The scientists collected Formvar replicas of fallen snow on microscopic slides to quantify precipitation properties and amounts. The artistic inspiration was to make the same replicas more visible by realising them on plates 24 times larger than the microscopic slides. The artist herself was not on site, so the researchers materialised the artistic idea and were thus highly involved in the act of creation. Did the scientists actually compose a painting by collecting the snowflakes on larger glass plates?
Collaborators:
Dr. Katherine Leonard, University of Colorado, Boulder, United States
Dr. Irina Gorodetskaya, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Prof. Michael Lehning, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL und WSL-Institut für Schnee-und Lawinenforschung SLF, Schweiz