I blogged a few months ago about an art exhibit, which I saw here in Bristol, about the Sun and magnetic fields. You can see what I thought of them here. Well (via Phil Plait) it seems they have now uploaded those films onto the web. The two films are both innovative, interesting and most of all educating. They’re called Brilliant Noise and Magnetic Movie and they are really worth watching.
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Brilliant Noise and Magnetic Movie
Published Sunday, 13 July, 2008 art , astronomy , astronomy outreach , the Sun Leave a CommentBrilliant Noise @ Bristol’s Arnolfini gallery
Published Wednesday, 9 April, 2008 art , astronomy outreach , the Sun 1 CommentYesterday a few of us from the magazine went to see the Brilliant Noise exhibit at the Arnolfini gallery here in Bristol. The exhibit is based around a 5 month placement of two artists at NASA’s Space Sciences Laboratory at the UC Berkeley.
I won’t give away all the detail but the exhibit uses raw videos of the Sun (from various solar spacecraft) followed by some interviews on the big scientific quandaries with scientists from NASA.
I haven’t seen science portrayed so well, in art, for a long time – the exhibit is well worth a visit. The power of the Sun, its magnetic field and the turbulent nature of its surface and atmosphere was conveyed with incredible power and real feeling. If you are Bristol way then I definitely recommend you pop in.
