I submitted “Video Postcard: Aesthetics & Astronomy in 15-seconds” to the Ignite Smithsonian event for Monday, April 11, 2011, at the National Museum of the American Indian.
Project UpdatesThe Aesthetics & Astronomy (A&A) project studies expert and non-expert perceptions of astronomy images across multiple platforms, and the possible effects of scientific and artistic choices in processing astronomical data. Keep tabs on the latest studies, publications, multimedia and other products and information with the A&A blog. |  |
Current list of papers and talks
Arcand, K.K., Watzke, M., Smith, L, Smith, J.K “Surveying Aesthetics & Astronomy: A project exploring the public’s perception of astronomy images and the science within” Communicating Astronomy with the Public. Issue 10 December 2010. http://www.capjournal.org/issues/10/10_13.php
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Video Podcast on Aesthetics and Astronomy
Every year, hundreds of astronomical images are released to the public by the many telescopes on the ground and in space – including the Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes — that observe the Universe. These images span the entire electromagnetic spectrum, mostly representing light and phenomena that cannot be detected by the human eye.
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New Study launched
The first paper on the preliminary results of the study has been accepted by Science Communication. View it online at http://scx.sagepub.com (pre-print available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/1009.0772 ). Our latest research grant from the Smithsonian is enabling us to study the perception of astronomy images across multiple platforms (web,mobile, print,large scale) at participating science centers in the summer and fall of 2010.
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Podcast on NASA’s Blueshift
NASA’s Blueshift podcast interviewed Dr. Randall Smith of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, a collaborator on the Aesthetics & Astronomy project that is looking into how the public perceives multi-wavelength astronomical imagery. Randall shares some surprising early results from the project that may change the way we communicate with images.
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