{"id":374,"date":"2021-02-01T06:30:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T06:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellarnursery?page_id=374"},"modified":"2022-02-22T16:27:22","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T16:27:22","slug":"art-science","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/stellarnursery\/art-science\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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This project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between our team of star and planet formation scientists at the University of Dundee, the UK artist duo Semiconductor and Adam Lockhart, Lecturer (T&R) in Media Art & Archives at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD). Our aim is to use art as a vehicle to communicate scientific processes behind the technique of time-resolved spectroscopy to a broader public, encouraging them to think and wonder about the capabilities of mapping what is nearly invisible, and to raise awareness in science communities about what art-science collaborations can achieve.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

The formation of stars and planets is one of the most captivating themes for the general public, but studying baby stars and new-born planets is not easy,\u00a0 and it requires observing techniques beyond direct imaging. While the results of planet-related projects are often publicised, the way scientists reach these conclusions and overcome the experimental difficulties of the task is another adventure of its own but tends to remain unknown for the general public.<\/p>

Our collaboration between scientists and artists is using art to capture this scientific process and bring it to sectors of the public that may not be addressed by pure STEM activities. We started using dedicated public engagement funds from the STFC Consolidated Grant The Planet-Disk Connection <\/em>(ST\/S000399\/1) to produce bespoke artworks inspired by and based on our research field, mapping the surroundings of young stars and forming planets, later expanded thanks to the SPARK Public Engagement grant Reading between the lines: Translating light from science to art<\/em> (ST\/V002058\/1).\u00a0<\/p>

Here you can follow our voyage to use light and time to map the space around young, forming stars.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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We are delighted to announce the completion of Spectral\u00a0Constellations,<\/i>\u00a0which made its debut at the NEoN Digital Arts festival in Dundee. It consists of a series of generative animations, driven by scientific data of young stars. This data, collected by scientists using a method called Spectroscopy, creates an understanding of structures around distant young stars, where gas and dust come together to form planets. Scientists study the light this matter emits using prisms to split it into its constituent wavelengths, revealing its elemental make-up.\u00a0By analysing this data over time, spatial formations of the matter can be decoded.<\/span><\/p>

Semiconductor have worked with this spectral data as a physical material, translating it into rings of light which resemble the gradiated discs of planetary and stellar formations. As the data ebbs and flows it introduces a sense of form and motion, waveforms merge and interfere revealing patterns and rhythms, and engage our human tendency towards pattern recognition. The fragmented LED mosaics provide partial windows from which the spectral data shifts and shimmers to create a raw visual experience.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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