Photo Credit: © Yuanyuan [Kay] He

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StellarScape is an immersive multimedia performance synthesizing music, science, visual art, and technology. The performance includes live musicians, sensors, electronic music, and dance, all collaborating through interactive cinematography. The result combines kinesthetic and acoustic sensing with astrophysical simulations of star formation in real time. This convergence research collaboration is catalyzed by the union of concepts at the confluence of astronomy, humanity, artistic expression through music and dance, and sociotechnical experience. This article summarizes the authors’ motivation for undertaking the project, the interdisciplinary collaboration required to execute it, the authors’ goals for the audience experience, early results of the first performances, and ways the piece can be delivered in the future for entertainment, outreach, and education.
 

Photo Credit: © Estate of Shigeru Onishi, Courtesy of MEM, Tokyo

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Using French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s work on late Paul Cézanne as a springboard, Maja Bak Herrie broaches the concept of topological vision to examine Japanese mathematician and photographer Shigeru Onishi’s (1928–1994) photographic work.

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Photo Credit: © Christian Nold

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Artist, designer, and researcher Christian Nold uses science and technology studies to identify five emotion assemblages and the contexts in which they operate. Nold asserts that artists, designers, and researchers need to make deliberate choices when working with emotion.

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Photo Credit: © Han Sun and Zhijun Peng. Photo © Han Sun

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Zhijun Peng et al. share their three projects focused on the study, representation, and conservation of Tibetan Mani heaps. Piled with carving stones, a Mani heap is used as a religious altar for prayer in daily life in Tibet.

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