NEWS
RELEASE
29 APRIL 2004
SCIENCE AND ART COLLIDE IN NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION
Photographs taken by GNS
scientists feature in a new exhibition which will tour New Zealand
for the next two years.
Called Unseen Worlds - New Dimensions, the collection of 40 large-format photographs explores the shared ground between art and science. It is designed to give New Zealanders an opportunity to see the amazing images that scientists capture during their everyday work.
As well as images from GNS, the exhibition also features images from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), and the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research.
Selected for their strong visual impact, the collection includes images from within the human body, deepsea species, 60 million year-old microfossils, and structural patterns in stressed ice in Antarctica.
Also featured are scientists from the three organisations, presented on touch-screen video monitors, talking about their work. The exhibition will be on the road for two years, starting with a three-month showing at Auckland War Memorial Museum from early July 2004.
It then travels to Wellington for an extended summer season (October 2004 to March 2005) at Museum of Wellington City and Sea. Other venues include Southland Museum of Art & History (Invercargill), the International Science Festival (Dunedin), and Te Manawa, Palmerston North.
The exhibition was developed by Jude Benson of Benson
& Associates, and Ian Kennedy of the National Science-Technology
Roadshow Trust.
View the GNS images in the exhibition here.
These images can be purchased from the GNS photo
library here.