Color Plates

Color Plate A

The Story of C, Scene One: "Deliverance." (Photo © Sharad Bolar) Kiln: "It was roasted until it separated from the calcium, which remained so to speak with its feet on the ground. Still firmly clinging to two of its three former oxygen companions, it issued from the chimney and took the path of the air. Its story, which once was immobile, now turned tumultuous" (Primo Levi, The Periodic Table, p. 226). See article by Tonie L. Stolberg.

Color Plate B

Robert Pepperell, Fragrance, oil on canvas, 32 × 42 cm, 2005. (© Robert Pepperell) A painting suggesting, but at the same time lacking, specific figures and objects.

Color Plate C

Jacques Mandelbrojt, From one color to the next, 64 × 49 cm, watercolor, 1990. (© Jacques Mandelbrojt)

Color Plate D

Sherban Epuré, Personae (2706 series), inkjet, various sizes, 2006. (© Sherban Epuré) Artist's collection.

Color Plate E

Stelarc and Nina Sellars, Blender, top view, 2005. (© Stelarc and Nina Sellars. Photo: Stelarc) The artists had bodily tissues and wastes removed from their bodies and combined in a blender that periodically mixed the contents. There was a choreography of blending and bubbling sounds. See article by Julie Clarke.

Color Plate F

Wilhelm Ostwald, untitled, oil on cardboard, 1886. (Reproduced with the permission of the Ostwald-Gesellschaft) Painting of summer seaside, Ostsee region of Germany. See article by Robert Root-Bernstein.

Color Plate G

Heather Barnett and Robert Whittle, The Drosophila melanogaster Enthusiast's Manual, limited edition printed book, 2004. (© Heather Barnett and Robert Whittle) The book adopted the format of a familiar U.K. car maintenance manual, discussing the "design style" of the fruit fly genetic model system and reviewing its "shortcomings" for hobbyists. The text includes explanations of the science alongside the conceit of this pastiche, thus becoming a possible teaching vehicle through subterfuge.

Color Plate H

No. 1. Jo Joelson, EISCAT Svalbard Radar, Frontiers 8, Svalbard, 2004. (© London Fieldworks)

No. 2. Sol Sneltvedt, Mindscape, still image II, detail from audiovisual installation. (© Sol Sneltvedt) A digitized version of a highly magnified image of nerve cells in the brain, combined with sound to represent the dynamics of the brain in action. See article by Michael O'Shea and Sol Sneltvedt.