Abstract
Short Paper
Keywords: Data Visualization, Transdisciplinary, Interdisciplinary, Environment, Water Quality, Science and Art, Steam, Design, Research, Science Communication, Turbidity
The project “Turbidity Paintings,” proposes a new visualization methodology to record images and collect data on water quality. The core of this is to develop a system of image collection using do-it-yourself technology. Collected information is being used to construct a library of time explicit images encoded with data metrics from a variety of domestic and international locations. “Turbidity Paintings” explores and challenges the divide between the arts and the sciences and directly questions the role of the artist when dealing with science and scientific data. Art and science are not so vastly different in their approaches. The role of the artist and
the art in this project is to create an experimental model by which to develop new ways to create a dialogue around, in our example, water quality.
- Thomas Asmuth is an Associate Professor at the University of West Florida, USA, where he teaches courses in digital media. He received a bachelor’s of arts degree from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA in digital media at San Jose State University. An advocate of transdisciplinary collaboration, he often involves other artists, engineers, and scientists in his work. He is collaborating with artists and environmental scientists on “Turbidity Paintings,” a project funded by the Florida Research Fellowship. Asmuth and his team presented their work at the 2016 International Symposium on Electronic Art in Hong Kong.
- Sara Gevurtz is an Assistant Professor at Hastings College, Hastings, USA. Gevurtz received an MFA in Digital Media Art from San Jose State University. She received her bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of California, San Diego. Her artistic research focuses on ecological and environmental issues. Gevurtz has shown work and published nationally and internationally, including an article in the journal Plastik Art & Science by the Pantheon-Sorbonne University, “Paris 1” in 2013. Currently, she is working with both artists and scientists on a project using submersibles to collect images and data on water quality.
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