"Īccording to Bryan Rogers, dean of U-M's School of Art & Design, Andersen's work "indisputably reveals the emerging new connections between art and science, between visual image and mathematical construct. It is very exciting to see these events turned into art. "One of these is the top quark production event that is featured in the exhibit. "I discussed with him what the event represents," Gerdes said. Gerdes provided Andersen with examples of real particle interactions from the Collider Detector Facility (CDF) experiment at Fermilab where he does his research. Andersen generated the images while the rest of us helped keep them focused and scientifically valid." "We succeeded in generating a set of images that are both meaningful and beautiful. "We worked together for many months, somehow overcoming our different ways of understanding and describing the world," Kane said. "One could argue that they could look like anything, if they have looks at all."Īndersen worked with U-M physicists Gordon Kane and David Gerdes to blend art and science. "No one has ever seen, nor will anyone ever see anything as small or fast as a quark or a neutrino," Andersen said. Here, the properties of velocity, color, mass and spin are represented as visual elements. Andersen has bridged the optically impossible task of visually observing these particles by translating their properties and classification, known as the Standard Model of Subatomic Physics, into a coherent visual language. The exhibition is a display of 25 large-scale vibrantly colored computer-generated images inked on canvas and paper, as well as sculpture, that give visual qualities to subatomic particles.
Image: Top/Muon event from the Fermilab Tevatron © U-M Professor Jan-Henrick Andersen, School of Art & DesignĪndersen, an assistant professor in the University of Michigan's School of Art & Design, is exhibiting "Sized Matter-Perception of the Extreme Unseen" through August at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill.
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