July 29, 2005
Ecce Homology
Can artistic approaches and aesthetic experience nurture discovery in the sciences?
Ecce Homology is an interactive installation that bridges art and science through the use of dynamic media, computer vision and computer graphics. Named after Friedrich Nietzsche’s Ecce Homo, a meditation on how one becomes what one is, the project explores human evolution by examining similarities – known as “homology” – between genes from human beings and a target organism, in this case the rice plant.
Experience Ecce Homology during SIGGRAPH 2005, July 31 - August 4, 2005 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Five projectors present Ecce Homology’s calligraphic forms across a 40-foot wide wall. A novel computer-vision interface allows multiple participants, through their movement in the installation space, to draw their own calligraphic characters and select genes from the human genome for visualizing the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST), a primary data-mining tool used worldwide in comparative genomics. Results are presented as two superimposed pictograms. Ecce Homology asks: Can artistic approaches and aesthetic experience nurture discovery in the sciences? Read an article.
Posted by jo at July 29, 2005 09:53 AM
