Reading between the lines: Translating light from science to art

这个项目是由邓迪大学(UoD)的恒星和行星形成科学家团队、英国艺术家Duo Semiconductor和同样在UoD(Duncan of Jordan stone College of Art&Design；DJCAD)工作的艺术策展人兼研究员亚当·洛克哈特合作完成的。我们的目标是将ART作为一种媒介，向广泛的公众传达时间分辨光谱技术背后的科学过程，鼓励他们思考和好奇绘制几乎看不见的东西的能力，并提高科学界对艺术与科学合作可以实现什么的认识。我们目前的研究工作是作为STFC综合资助“行星-盘连接”的一部分，基于发射线断层扫描技术，使用年轻恒星系统的时间分辨光谱数据来提取速度信息，这些信息可以转换为年轻恒星周围环境和形成行星的空间图像。我们希望把重点放在科学技术上，而不仅仅是结果，让公众参与到天体物理学家面临的挑战中，以及时间在绘制空间图中的作用。通过使用ART，我们既希望更容易地介绍所使用的方法论背后的复杂技术，也希望提高人们对科学程序、技术和科学背后的局限性的认识。这将引发关于技术和人类作为几乎看不见的过程的观察者的角色的哲学讨论。半导体将创造一个基于墙壁的电子艺术品，检查科学家所使用的技术。这些艺术品将在几个著名的活动和场所展出，包括米尔斯天文台(邓迪2021-22年)、霓虹灯数字艺术节(2021年秋季)和苏格兰大学物理联盟(SUPA)科马克天文学会议(2021年秋季)。我们还将寻求在爱丁堡和切尔滕纳姆科学节(2022年春季)等节日上展出。这一多样化的活动和场所将使该项目能够接触到比我们仅限科学活动更广泛的公众部门，包括16-19岁及以上参加霓虹灯活动的年轻人、在米尔斯有学龄儿童的家庭，以及通过SUPA/COMACK的科学界。通过这种场馆和观众的混合，目的也是为了接触到可能对纯粹以STEM为基础的公共参与不那么感兴趣的一些公众部门，以及专业人士和科学和艺术专业的学生。更广泛地说，艺术已被证明成功地吸引了可能不会参加通常的科学展览的公众部门，如年轻人(16-19岁)，特别是女孩。我们的目标也是促进未来专业研究人员和艺术家以及理科和艺术大学生之间类似的艺术与科学合作。我们将与艺术作品一起，通过讲座和传单展示科学材料，并将利用网络和社交媒体加强我们的存在，帮助公众参与寻找和发现科学成果背后的东西。艺术家们还将介绍他们作为各自领域中具有广泛艺术与科学合作历史的领先艺术家的工作。其中一个版本的艺术品将在DJCAD存档。这将使该项目的影响持久，使艺术家、科学家和普通公众能够访问，并激励未来的新艺术家、科学家和他们之间的合作。COVID-19注：公共场所目前关闭，但我们项目的初始部分(基于艺术家和科学家之间通过会议和讨论的合作开发和建造艺术品-可以在线)可以从封锁开始。公开展览将于2021年中下旬开始。网络展示、社交媒体和时事通讯通讯将从项目开始就开始运行。

This project is a collaboration between a team of star and planet formation scientists based at the University of Dundee (UoD), the UK artist duo Semiconductor, and art curator and researcher Adam Lockhart, also based at the UoD (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Arts & Design; DJCAD). Our aim is to use art as a vehicle to communicate scientific processes behind the technique of time-resolved spectroscopy to a broad spectrum of 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. Our current research work as part of the STFC Consolidated Grant "The Planet-Disk Connection" is based on the emission line tomography technique, using time-resolved spectroscopy data of young stellar systems to extract velocity information that can be transformed into a spatial picture of the environments around young stars and forming planets. We want to put the focus on the scientific techniques, not just the outcome, to make the public participate in the challenges faced by astrophysicists and the role of time in mapping space. By using art we want to both make it easier to introduce the complex techniques behind the methodology used and raise awareness about the scientific procedure, techniques, and limitations behind the science. This will trigger philosophical discussion around the role of technology and humans as observers of processes that are nearly invisible.Semiconductor will create a wall-based electronic artwork that examines the techniques employed by the scientists. The artwork will be exhibited at several well-established events and venues including Mills Observatory (Dundee 2021-22), NEoN Digital Arts Festival (Autumn 2021), and Scottish Universities Physics Alliance (SUPA) Cormack Astronomy Meeting (Edinburgh, Autumn 2021). We will also be looking to exhibit at festivals such as Edinburgh and Cheltenham Science Festival (Spring 2022) and others. This variety of events and venues will allow the project to reach broader sectors of the public than what we have had with science-only activities, from young people, 16-19 and older attending NEoN, families with school-aged children at Mills, and the scientific community via SUPA/Cormack. Through this mixture of venues and audiences, the aim is also to reach some sectors of the public that may not be so interested in pure STEM-based public engagement and, in addition, professionals and students of science and art. More generally, art has been shown to be successful in attracting sectors of the public that may not attend usual science exhibits, such as young people (aged 16-19) and in particular girls. We also aim to promote future similar collaborations between art and science among professional researchers and artists, and university students of science and art.In conjunction with the artwork, we will present scientific materials through talks and leaflets, and will enhance our presence using the web and social media to help the public participate in the search and discovery behind the scientific results. The artists will also give presentations on their work as leading artists in their field with an extensive history of art-science collaborations. One edition of the artwork will be archived at the DJCAD. This will allow for the impact of the project to be long-lasting, enabling access by artists, scientists, and the general public, as well as inspiring future new artists, scientists, and collaborations between them.COVID-19 note: Public venues are currently closed, but the initial part of our project (developing and building the artworks based on the collaboration between artists and scientists via meetings and discussion - which can be online) can start in lockdown. Public exhibitions will start in mid-to-late 2021. Web presence, social media and newsletter communications will run from the start of the project.