Inspired by the pixel structure of far away objects in astronomical images, artist Tim Otto Roth uses live scientific data to create visions of science in action. His artwork, entitled I see what I see not, relies on data from five laboratories in Europe and North America to illuminate a huge outdoor display of 76 individually controllable panels in Munich, Germany. In December, he transformed images from the German kascade cosmic ray experiment into squares of rapidly changing colors. Projected onto the 700-square-foot array, the artwork becomes “a super-eye, looking for the causes of space and matter.” Future imagery will rely on data from the particle collider experiments at Fermilab and SLAC, as well as from two astronomical observatories. Readers can view the images in motion at: www.kunstfassade.de/tor/current_e.html. Kurt Riesselmann |
