Michael Whittle | art and science

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Michael Whittle

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Blue flower of Novalis, Molecular structure

"The perfected form
of the sciences
must be poetic."

Novalis, 1798

Projects

High-resolution NASA Curiosity rover panorama and selfie on the Martian surface. Click to explore the Mars Impression project.

Mars Impressions

Large-scale foam-like Tree of Knowledge installation spanning five floors of HKBU Library staircase. Click to explore the Tree of Knowledge project.

Tree of Knowledge

Black-and-white engraving of an early eurpoean cabinet of curiosities with figures viewing an AR image of Saturn on iPads. Click to explore the Cabinet of Curiosities project.

Cabinet of Curiosities

AI-generated image of a skull constructed entirely from orchid flowers on a black background. Click to explore the Memento Mori Orchid Skulls project.

Memento Mori

Detailed pen-and-ink and watercolor drawing of a neural snowball data visualization. Click to explore the Neural Snowball project.

Neural Snowballs

AI-generated new orchid species with intricate diagrammatic floral structure. Click to explore the Metamorphosis of Plants project.

The Metamorphosis of Plants

Contemporary dancer performing on a colorful carpet patterned after grid-cell firing maps. Click to explore the Grid Cell Carpet Performance project.

Grid Cell Performance

Yellow, red and black data visualization forming a butterfly-shaped Maunder diagram of sunspot activity. Click to explore the Butterflies on the Sun project.

Butterflies on the Sun

Colorful topographic map of Mars overlaid with a black diagrammatic city plan based on ribosomal structure. Click to explore the Noctis Labyrinthus Mars Colony project.

Labyrinth of the night

Child’s feet in spotted socks and tights standing on a neurobiology-based grid-cell firing pattern carpet. Click to explore the Grid Cell Carpet project.

Perpetual Motion

Woman in black about to enter a minimalist white maze installation with diagrammatic wall graphics. Click to explore the Artists in Laboratories ACC Residency exhibition.

Still Life

Delicate pen-and-watercolor data visualization showing the complete family tree of orchid species. Click to explore the Orchids on a Volcano project.

The Roots of the Orchid

Delicate pen-and-watercolor drawing of a cornucopia like structure, a diagrammatic model of the origins of the universe. Click to explore the Portraits of thought Exhibition.

Portraits of Thought

Colorful pen-and-watercolor painting of a Planck telescope cosmic microwave background data visualization. Click to explore The Shape of Information exhibition.

The Shape of Information

Delicate pen-and-watercolor drawing of a mathematical minimal surface (Chen Gackstatter surface). Click to explore the Minimal Surface project.

Surface Series

Large black sculpture of a signal bonfire with black stones on a square of earth. Click to explore the Out of Africa project.

Out of Africa

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