Prints to Pixels Vapor, 2012 Prints to Pixels balances on the fulcrum between art and science. Activity immersed in collaborations with scientists and computer visualization specialists, we have been on a quest to meld scientific factual understanding with artistic distillation and metaphor as a means of reaching a broader audience and providing a more accessible understanding of environmental issues. Scientists speak a language of mathematical equations, detailed data sets and factual dissection that is not accessible to those beyond their field. My role is to bring the metaphor and poetry of my imagery to broaden the audience and accelerate the understanding of the environmental changes and the social challenges ahead. My work examines the state of the equilibrium between society and the natural world ~ Francesca Samsel Turbulence and Topography In collaboration with Craig Tweedie, Ph.D., and the Ecology Systems Lab at the University of Texas at El Paso. Research focuses on the Chihuahuan Desert. Displayed and funded by Cyber-ShARE Center for Excellence University of Texas at El Paso SARC Science Artist Research CollaborativeISEA Albuquerque 2012 Built / Re-Built Work pertaining to the 2011 Fukushima Tsunami, Japan’s history of nuclear disasters and the danger of living on the Ring of Fire. Rain, Red Tide This is a clip from a larger work about the relationship between rain, fertilizer, watersheds and the hypoxic zones, also known as dead zones growing in the oceans. Created in the Aces Visualization Lab, Texas Advanced Computing Lab, UT Austin Built / Re-Built Rain, Red Tide
