Color Plates

Color Plate A

Flow Motion/Adrian Ward, Astro Black Morphologies, detail of installation at the John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, U.K., 5 April-14 May 2005. Generative design-based visualizations of X-ray data from Cygnus X1.

© Flow Motion/Signwave, 2005. Photo: Steve Shrimpton, courtesy of John Hansard Gallery

Color Plate B

Haus-Rucker-Co, Connexion Skin, 1967-1968. An example of 1960s neo-avant garde architecture that surpassed the limits of physical construction and became a medium for conceptions of the exploration of space. (See article by Michael Punt, Martha Blassnigg and David Surman.)

© Haus-Rucker-Co

Color Plate C

No. 1. Claudia Reiche and Helene von Oldenburg, The High Reality Machine or HRM_1.0n, appearance: camouflage. HRM_1.0n installs sculptures, Internet relay chats, kinetic objects, art-and-media theories, science-fiction literature, telepresence systems, videos, sound installations, manifestos, web art, etc. on the Mars Exhibition Site via teleportation.

© Claudia Reiche and Helene von Oldenburg

No. 2. Fatima Lasay, Mga Awit mula sa Gimokud/Chansons de mes deux âmes, 2004. One of two structures made of grape branches, representing the left-hand gimokud or soul, emitting synthesized sound.

© Fatima Lasay

Color Plate D

No. 1. Kathleen Quillian and Gilbert Guerrero, The International Transentient Cartographicacy Project (on-line map detail), 2003-2004. While in Mexico City, the artists used information from an interactive, on-line map, which consisted of the experiences of friends, family and acquaintances who had previously traveled or lived in Mexico City, as a point of reference to help guide them through the city.

© Gilbert Guerrero and Kathleen Quillian

No. 2. Tim Otto Roth, I See What I See Not, cosmic particle shower live at the art façade in Munich, 76 RGB neon light elements controllable via Internet, 9 x 6 m, 700 square feet, 23 February 2005. The KASCADE experiment, with its cosmic particle events from the hadron-kalorimetre detector at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany, was one of the cooperating projects from astro- and particle physics providing near real-time images for I See What I See Not during winter 2004-2005.

© Tim Otto Roth

Color Plate E

Philip Van Loocke, top contour of initial tree, bent tree with enveloping flower and bent tree with flower canopy. The latter were generated in accordance with the bit-pattern at the bottom.

© Philip Van Loocke

Color Plate F

Reynald Drouhin, Spiderman/Red, 2005. Mosaic-image generated by Des_Frags, an on-line artwork. Des_Frags was created by the artist in collaboration with a computer programmer. (See article by Jean-Paul Fourmentraux.)

© Reynald Drouhin

Color Plate G

No. 1. Tamás F. Farkas, bound quarks. Upper row: The 3 possible pairs of clips attached to the LRL quarks. Lower row: The 3 possible pairs of clips attached to the RLR quarks. (See Table 1, in György Darvas and Tamás F. Farkas, "An Artist's Works through the Eyes of a Physicist," pp. 51-57.)

© Tamás F. Farkas

No. 2. Tamás F. Farkas, the transformation of a proton into a neutron. A u quark is detached from the proton (a-b) and there appears a d quark-antiquark pair. The u quark-d antiquark pair forms a π⁺ meson, while the d quark together with the rest of the former proton forms a neutron (c).

© Tamás F. Farkas

No. 3. Tamás F. Farkas, rishons. Upper left: The L (masculine) rishons in all 3 colors. Upper right: The L (masculine) anti-rishons in all 3 colors. Lower left: The R (feminine) rishons in all 3 colors. Lower right: The R (feminine) anti-rishons in all 3 colors.

© Tamás...