Crossing boundaries: imaging innovations in art and science

The perceptual analysis an artist brings to creating an object is explored in relation to how a viewer perceives a completed art object. Multiple styles, media, and historical images are surveyed to (1) explain the artist/object relationship is interactive, (2) contrast narrative and visual compositional goals and (3) explore underlying solutions that bring superficially dissimilar images together. Within this matrix, the discussion demonstrates how innovative artistic and scientific imaging technologies interface as they revise understandings of how we see surfaces, transparency, light, and even seeing itself.