This is really intriguing...it makes me think of the mapping and imaging of
the nanoscale. But I suppose that takes us away from the nuclear/atomic and
fission/fusion topic. As a historian, I am less familiar with this seemingly
avant-garde approaches to melding art and nuclear science. With regard to
ITER - I would imagine an important aspect of it would be the simple one of
aesthetics in terms of how one plunks down such a large facility in the
French countryside. What efforts will be made, architecturally, so that it
blends in? This makes me think of the aesthetics connected to the building
of Fermilab:
http://history.fnal.gov/aesthetic_science.html
L. M. Lederman, ŒŒWilson and Fermilab,¹¹ in Aesthetics and Science:
Proceedings in Honor of Robert R. Wilson (Batavia: Fermilab, 1979), pp.
123.
These are just a few points of reference; the new book on Fermilab by
Hoddeson, et al. discusses Robert Wilson's vision for a "lab on the prairie"
in more detail.
Patrick
On 6/9/09 11:52 PM, "roger malina" <rmalina@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> Patrick, Jean Pierre et yasminers
>
> an example of a 'telematic' connection to sub atomic particles
> is the cosmophone that was presented at the Mutamorphosis conference
>
> http://mutamorphosis.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/the-cosmophone-playing-with-part
> icles-the-cosmos-and-sounds-2/
>
> The instrument sonifies the crossing of sub atomic particles through
> the space that the
> person is standing in= its quite an eery feeling of connection between
> the human level and the
> sub atomic level
>
> roger
>
>
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