Color Plates

Color Plate A

Lanfranco Aceti, Tower of Time, mixed media and human blood, digital print, 40 cm × 53 cm, 2003. (© Lanfranco Aceti) The pre-war bell tower of Cassino, inserted within a contemporary digital space, bridges the landscape of the destroyed and the destroyer.

Color Plate B

Phillip Warnell, film stills from The Girl with X-Ray Eyes, 35mm, 23:00 min, 2008. (© Phillip Warnell)

Color Plate C

Jon McCormack, Future Garden, unrealized project for Federation Square, Melbourne, 1998–2001. (© Jon McCormack) More information on this and other projects by McCormack can be found at <www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/art.html>. (See article by Jules Moloney in this issue.)

Color Plate D

David S. Goodsell, a speculative design for a swimming nanobot. (© David S. Goodsell) This nanobot is constructed from existing protein nano-machines found in bacteria and human cells. It is designed to push a payload powered by light. The large flagellar motor at the left, taken from bacteria, powers the swimming by turning the long corkscrew-shaped flagellum. The Y-shaped antibodies on the right, taken from human cells, attach the nanobot to the payload. The inner membrane is studded with bacteriorhodopsin, taken from purple sulfur bacteria, which absorb light and create a gradient of protons that power the motor. The fibrous network of peptidoglycan between the two membranes, taken from bacterial cells, forms an infrastructure that supports the nanobot.

Color Plate E

Louise Fowler-Smith, sacred tree honoring the Traffic Goddess, Bata Bhuasuanhi, Orissa. (Photo © Louise Fowler-Smith)