ABSTRACT
Suggesting that communicating scientific data in artistic form helps to build a stronger connection between public and scientific values, this chapter outlines the processes and methodologies used to create a series of artistic research projects that use scientific images in the cross-disciplinary collaborative practices of art, science communication and community engagement.
In particular, the chapter discusses the artistic approaches to scientific images of micro-scale drops of water made by the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) that enable visual representations of water composition and sometimes, contamination. Images made by SEM are scientific visual data that the author uses in the artistic context to complement scientific research and to bring new perspectives on water significance through communicating water ecology.
