ICCS06/Felice Frankel
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[edit] Felice Frankel
Science Photographer
MIT
ICCS Presentation Title: The Visual Expression of Complex Systems: An Approach to Understanding What Questions We Should Ask.
This talk will discuss some preliminary thoughts from a science photographer about thinking about how to visually express complex systems. I will argue that finding new approaches to the visual communication of concepts should be a fundamental component of our thinking in order to advance understanding. My short talk will not be presented as a manifesto but simply as a presentation of some initial ideas.
About Felice:
Science photographer Felice Frankel (web.mit.edu/felicef) is presently a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose work is supported by the School of Science, the School of Engineering and the Office of Research. Working in collaboration with scientists and engineers, Frankel creates images and other forms of scientific visual expressions for journal submissions, presentations and publications for general audiences.
July 1, 2006, she will become Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University’s Institute in Innovative Computing (IIC), and will maintain a part-time office at MIT’s Center for Materials Science and Engineering as a research scientist.
She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Graham Foundation for the Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation. She was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design for her previous work photographing the built landscape and architecture.
Her latest book Envisioning Science, The Design and Craft of the Science Image is now out in paperback. (The MIT Press). She is coauthor with Harvard chemist George M. Whitesides of On the Surface of Things, Images of the Extraordinary in Science (Chronicle Books). Her regularly appearing column, Sightings, in American Scientist Magazine addresses the importance of visual thinking in science and engineering. She is presently organizing the second Image and Meaning conference at the Getty Center in LA, with researchers, science image-makers, computer scientists and writers. The purpose is develope new approaches to promote the public understanding of science through visual expression (web.mit.edu/i-m).
Frankel’s work has been profiled in the New York Times, LIFE Magazine, the Boston Globe, the Washington Post, the Chronicle of Higher Education, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, Science Friday, and the Christian Science Monitor among others. Her images and graphical representations have appeared on the covers and inside pages of Nature, Science, Angewandte Chemie, Advanced Materials, Materials Today, PNAS, Wired, Newsweek, Scientific American, Discover Magazine, New Scientist and others. Her most recent exhibition was traveling in Europe and is now in the United States.
