infocus #10 June 2008 A New Phytopia

Kesseler explains and demonstrates how art has become a universal language for understanding and sharing science, especially at a microscopic level.

DOI: 10.22443/rms.inf.1.32

For art to continue this traditional task of making nature aesthetically accessible to a wider public, at least three things are necessary: first, nature requires mediation to an audience because that audience cannot appreciate it unaided; secondly, the art which mediates nature must not be relentlessly formal and abstract in its intentions; thirdly, nature must be available to the artist as a subject to study.

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