ART-SCIENCE-VIS INTERSECTIONS

The Art-Sci-Vis Lab (ASV) is a joint lab between the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) and the University of Texas, Austin, and a sub-group of TACC’s larger visualization team. The lab’s ethos are rooted in the philosophy that the arts and the sciences are equally deep, rich, and significant disciplines that shape and influence modern society’s endeavors.

While many projects focused on this intersection tend to weigh one discipline over the other (art installations inspired by issues in science, or scientific figures / visualizations that treat artistic practice as purely aesthetic, end-stage design work), the ASV lab is focused on the mutual, free-flowing, simultaneous benefit of both.

Our research therefore considers how, for example, expertise from the arts improves the analytical practice and communicative capability of multivariate, volumetric visualizations of environmental systems, or how insight into biogeochemical processes might improve environmentally-focused public art.

Toward these aims, the lab employs and collaborates across disciplines, drawing members from the arts, humanities, social sciences, computer sciences, and natural sciences. For a current list of lab contributors and collaborators, see here. The ASV Lab supports full-time researchers through the Texas Advanced Computing Center as well as students at multiple levels, including undergraduate, graduate, and postdoc. 

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NAVIGATION GUIDE FOR THIS SITE

This site is broken down into three primary research thrusts: Art-Sci-Vis, Environmental Vis, and Interaction-Based Vis. Within each thrust are multiple different, concomitant projects, each contributing to the main thrust’s overarching goals. To see an overview of each thrust, navigate to its main page. The right column below contains supporting information about the lab, including tools, software links, a gallery of images covering multiple projects and thrusts, other documentation (including a publication list from all projects), and a collection of pages showing lab members, collaborators, and other associated groups.

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The work presented here is partially supported by the National Science Foundation under awards IIS 1704604 and IIS 1704904.