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Live From the Big Bang: 
Digital Pictures Made Directly From 
the Big Bang Radio Signal 
by Rick Doble 
Copyright © Rick Doble 2003. All rights reserved. 
If you would like to use any of these images or text, you must contact me. 
There is no charge for teachers, students, or non-profit organizations. 
(rick_doble@yahoo.com) 
All photos of artwork are from commons.wikimedia.org.
TABLE OF CONTENTS 
Forward 
Introduction 
Examples Of Biomorphic (ART) 
About These Images (SCIENCE) 
Art & Science 
Why Patterns? 
Harmony Of The Spheres 
Start of Big Bang Picture Gallery 
College Student Paper 
Doble's Background
Foreword 
LIVE FROM THE BIG BANG 
These are real photographs that have been enhanced 
This work seeks to help bridge the gap between art and science 
as these pictures are a combination of both. These images 
were made directly from the radio waves created in the Big 
Bang. The Big Bang signals are the echo or afterglow of the 
single event that created the universe, our galaxy, our solar 
system, the planet Earth and ourselves. And while the Big Bang 
happened almost 14 billion years ago, these radio waves are 
happening now, this moment, everyday, and everywhere. They 
are ever present -- a signal from creation.
Introduction 
What could be more primal than the Big Bang that created the Universe? And what could 
be more elementary than simple hydrogen atoms -- one positive particle and one negative 
particle -- which were originally created in this explosion and which lead to the Universe 
today along with our solar system, our Earth and ourselves? 
This huge explosion is still with us today in the form of an echo -- the Cosmic Microwave 
Background Radiation or CMBR or CMB. Everyday everywhere on the Earth this harmless 
radiation is with us. But more than that this 'radio signal' from our origins, our birth, can be 
received by man-made equipment and made visible using digital techniques. 
I feel that at this fundamental point in our creation, art and science meet. Science found and 
revealed the CMBR which confirmed the Big Bang theory and whose discovery led to a 
Nobel Prize. Art has the ability to make the CMBR visible and accessible. By doing so, 
these images can provide a way of connecting people to their origins and also creating 
pictures that evoke a reverence for the miracle of life. 
The resulting images, photographs of static on a monitor, are organic. Rather than 
repeating and uniform like most static, the shapes are, instead, quite lifelike. And this is 
where science and art meet. 
Early in the 20th century several artists came up with the idea of biomorphism -- creating 
artistic shapes that were based on natural structures and natural processes. The imagery 
from the CMBR does just that. The shapes are not mathematical but a kind of 'primal soup', 
a squirming interconnected maze of in/out lines and forms that defy the imagination. They 
are fascinating at any enlargement.
Examples Of Biomorphic (ART) 
Biomorphism is an art movement that began in the 20th century. It 
models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or 
shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms. 
The Tate Gallery's online glossary article on biomorphic form 
specifies that while these forms are abstract, they "refer to, or 
evoke, living forms...". 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomorphism 
In fine art, the term "Biomorphic Abstraction" describes the use of rounded abstract forms 
based on those found in nature. Also referred to as Organic Abstraction, this type 
of abstract art was not a school or movement, but a striking feature of the work of many 
different artists. 
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/biomorphic-abstraction.htm 
Artists who created in this manner include: Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi who were 
both sculptors and the architect Antoni Gaudí. Here are some examples: 
Jean Arp
Constantin Brancusi
Antoni Gaudí (from his cathedral in Barcelona)
Enhanced Pictures From The 
CMBR Static Caused By The Big Bang
About These Images (SCIENCE) 
As I have said, the radio signals received today that were produced by the Big Bang are 
technically defined as "cosmic microwave background radiation" or CMB or CMBR which is 
an "isotropic radiation bath that permeates the entire Universe" meaning that it is found 
everywhere in the Universe. 
While NASA uses satellites for its CMBR imagery, it is well established that ground based 
equipment can receive these signals. The problem then becomes how to separate the 
CMBR from man-made interference. With homemade optimized equipment it is reasonable 
to estimate that my raw images contain as much as 30% CMBR. 
I created these images with a homemade receiver and a specially modified monitor that 
was designed to maximize the received radiation from the Big Bang and reduce man-made 
and Earth based interference. I plan to keep tweaking my equipment to improve the 
reception and to reduce the amount of Earth created noise. I am hoping that future work will 
feel even more organic. Stay tuned! 
I tweaked my original photographs by enhancing the color already embedded in the pixels. I 
occasionally further enhanced these images by adding "false colors" (a technique that 
NASA uses) with computer software and using other computer processes to bring out their 
beautiful and random structure. I did not, however, change anything in their structure.
Art & Science 
While science and art are often quite different, they just as often intersect. The CMBR radio 
waves are an example. The CMBR radio waves can be received as imagery or sound. Even 
scientists wax poetic when presented with the stunning reality of the CMBR -- it is as though 
the Universe itself were singing or talking. This is not a new idea but one that goes back 
hundreds of years and led to the the discovery of the how the planets moved -- by Kepler 
(see more below). So art, in the sense of aesthetics, i.e. song, harmony, is not a new idea 
or one that is far removed from science. In fact it may be central in some 
situations. 
Here are some comments about the sound aspect and a "harmony of the spheres." 
When The Universe Sang 
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 
The peaks [ED: in the CMBR] indicate harmonics in the sound waves that filled the early, 
dense universe. Until some 300,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe was so hot that 
matter and radiation were entangled in a kind of soup in which sound waves (pressure 
waves) could vibrate. The CMB is a relic of the moment when the universe had cooled 
enough so that photons could "decouple" from electrons, protons, and neutrons; then atoms 
formed and light went on its way. 
http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/cmb-harmonics.html 
BBC NEWS 
By mapping tiniest temperature fluctuations in CMB, astronomers can "see" distribution of 
matter in early Universe. 
Using a music analogy, last year we could tell what note we were seeing - if it was C sharp 
or F flat." 
"Now, we see not just one, but three of these peaks and can tell not only which note is 
being played, but also what instrument is playing it - we can begin to hear in detail the 
music of creation." 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1304666.stm
Primal Soup 
"Primordial soup" is a term introduced by the Soviet biologist Alexander Oparin. In 
1924, he proposed a theory of the origin of life on Earth through the transformation, 
during the gradual chemical evolution of molecules that contain carbon in the 
primordial soup. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_soup 
Primal soup is a scientific term, reflecting one theory about how life evolved. While this 
theory is about the origins of life on Earth, it can just as easily be applied to an even more 
primal soup, the basic matter that led to the creation of the stars and the galaxies. 
One could look at these pictures as a kind of primordial soup, the basic soup from which we 
came from. These are more than just fascinating patterns, but designs that contain the 
origins of life at the most fundamental level. 
Color enhanced dense static containing radio signals from the Big Bang.
WHY PATTERNS? 
Life is made up of patterns from the blood cells in our veins, to traffic flow in a city, to cloud 
formations. All material is made up of microscopic patterns that show how that material is 
constructed and held together. And our lives over time are filled with patterns; from morning 
to evening we repeat and repeat day after day. Without these patterns life would not be 
possible. 
Artists tend to avoid patterns except as a background. Patterns are often seen as being 
merely decorative and not to be taken seriously. Part of the reason is that man-made 
patterns are not as interesting as natural patterns since they repeat in a more predictable 
manner. Artistically we do not often look directly at patterns in and of themselves. In this 
exhibit I am asking viewers to do just that. 
Mark Tobey 
Tobey is most notable for his creation of so-called "white writing" - an overlay of 
white or light-colored calligraphic symbols on an abstract field which is often itself 
composed of thousands of small and interwoven brush strokes. This method, in turn, 
gave rise to the type of "all-over" painting style made most famous by Jackson 
Pollock, another American painter to whom Tobey is often compared. Tobey’s work is 
also defined as creating a vibratory space with the multiple degrees of mobility 
obtained by the Brownian movement of a light brush on a bottom with the dense 
tonalities. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Tobey
Digital Pictures Made Directly From the Big Bang Radio Signal by Rick Doble
Harmony Of The Spheres 
A belief in a 'harmony of the spheres' was one that was quite old going back to ancient 
times and guided Kepler in his precise observations of planetary motion. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis 
In this page from Kepler's book, he notates the music of each planet that he perceives. 
While medieval philosophers spoke metaphorically of the "music of the spheres", Kepler discovered 
physical harmonies in planetary motion. He found that the difference between the maximum and minimum 
angular speeds of a planet in its orbit approximates a harmonic proportion. For instance, the maximum 
angular speed of the Earth as measured from the Sun varies by a semitone (a ratio of 16:15), from mi to fa, 
betweenaphelion and perihelion. Venus only varies by a tiny 25:24 interval (called a diesis in musical 
terms). 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonices_Mundi 
I grant you that no sounds are given forth, but I affirm . . . 
that the movements of the planets are modulated 
according to harmonic proportions. 
-- Johannes Kepler, 1619 
Kepler's insight led to a mathematical understanding of the planets' movements which in 
turn led to the insights of Isaac Newton whose insights in turn led to the creation of the 
modern world. When looked at closely, it is often hard to distinguish where art ends and 
science begins or vice-versa.
For nature is not merely present, 
but is implanted within things, 
distant from none; 
naught is distant from her... 
The power of each soul is itself 
somehow present afar in the universe... 
Giordano Bruno, Italian Philosopher, d. 1600 (burned at the stake for his ideas) 
First modern thinker to conceive of an infinite and relative Universe 
filled with many worlds.
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Digital Arts Processes 
Madeleine Reade-Lyons 
Module name: Digital Arts Processes 
ThamesValley University, London, U.K. 
I will be presenting and researching a digital artist called Rick Doble. He was born in Sharon, 
Connecticut on July 24th 1944, four days after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. He has been 
a digital artist for 15 years and a photographer for over 30. 
He became enthralled with the stars in 1955, aged 11, and he bought an inexpensive telescope. His 
love of the stars became a lifelong passion and he is still learning about constellations and space 
today. At around the same time, his Mother bought him a microscope, thus introducing him to optics 
and lenses, which made photography easier to understand when he began to specialize in it at a later 
date. 
In 1957, at the age of 13, he studied Einstein as explained by George Gamow in his book, One, Two, 
Three…Infinity. He was greatly interested in Einstein’s explanation of ‘the fourth dimension’ and he 
has used this theory in some of his photographic animations (see www.rickdoble.net, the ‘States of 
Being’ personal GIF animations for further) 
Specifically, I will be concentrating on Rick Doble’s ‘Live from the Big Bang’ series, which is a 
series of over 100 images created directly from the radio waves or, Cosmic Microwave Background 
Radiation, of the Big Bang. 
I wrote to Rick about his images asking him various, probably mind numbingly basic, questions 
about his work. These included what his inspiration was, how he captured the data, how he 
colourised it, did he prefer the colourised or embossed versions and so on…I use many of his 
responses in my essay and my presentation. 
One of the important points he makes it that he finds the organic nature of his images the most 
fascinating aspect.
Below is an example of one such image with colour: 
(www.rickdoble.net) 
Rick Doble says ‘These Big Bang signals are the echo, or afterglow, of the single event that created 
the universe, our galaxy, our solar system, the planet Earth and ourselves. This online exhibit seeks 
to help bridge the gap between art and science.’ 
‘Enlarging them was the most exciting discovery. I was able to blow up small portions and maintain 
a considerable level of fine detail. Just like the Universe itself these pictures contain worlds within 
worlds, each fascinating in itself.’ 
George Gamow first predicted the existence of CMB radiation in 1948. He said that the Universe had 
been contracting for long ages and that, when it reached its limiting contraction of 10 to the 14th g/cc, 
or one hundred trillion times the density of water, it exploded. This is what we now know to be ‘The 
Big Bang’ 
NASA says ‘The Big Bang theory predicts that the early universe was a very hot place and that as it 
expands, the gas within it cools. Thus the universe should be filled with radiation that is literally the 
remnant heat left over from the Big Bang, called the “cosmic microwave background radiation”, or 
CMB.’ (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov) 
‘For nature is not merely present, but is implanted within things, distant from none; naught is distant 
from her... 
The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the universe...’ 
(Giordano Bruno, Italian Philosopher, d. 1600)
NASA’s image explaining the CMB from the dawn of time 
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest3.html 
I would like to pick up on what Rick said about bridging the gap between science and art. 
What he is saying there is important. To many people, myself included, art and science are two 
completely separate things and one does not become the other. 
So I am left with a question: 
Is something only ‘art’ when it is produced purely for the artistic and aesthetic properties of 
the piece? 
It is widely accepted that, in order to interpret and understand a piece of art, some context is 
necessary. Context can include background information about the artist, historical reference, the 
environment of the artist and also their perspective on the artwork.
But, is one more important than the other in deciding if something is art? Is it the intention of the 
artist that makes it art or the perception of the viewer? I think that the perception of the viewer is 
more important in defining a piece as a ‘work of art’ 
To me, when I look at somebody’s work, I either have an emotional response to it or I don’t. If I 
don’t respond to a piece then, as far as I am concerned, it is not art. 
When I look at Leonardo Da Vinci’s technical drawings of his flying machine or his war machine, or 
any other architectural plans for that matter, I appreciate their aesthetic properties far more than I do 
their conventional properties. 
Leonardo Da Vinci’s War Machine (www.sciart.com)
Indeed, all of Da Vinci’s technical drawings can now be bought in various forms purely for their 
artistic merit. I personally own a calendar, sadly it’s from 2003 so is now obsolete but I keep 
meaning to cut the images out and frame them! 
This image of the architectural plans for the new St Paul's Cathedral is quite clearly a technical 
drawing. However, its linearity and simplicity attract me to the image. This may just be because I am 
absolutely fascinated by St Paul's, its rich history, dominant architecture and pure beauty. It is 
actually my favourite London building; it even beats Craven Cottage home to my beloved Fulham! 
That is art. 
I truly believe that beauty, elegance and, in this case, artistic merit is in the eye of the beholder. You 
may not appreciate the plans of St Paul's in the way that I do and see them purely as the ‘artist’ 
intended them to be seen. That is science. 
Architectural plans of St Paul’s Cathedral
www.corpoflondon.gov.uk/collage 
The Art Institute of Chicago began a year long course, Science, Art and Technology for the benefit of 
Public School teachers that wanted to look at the relationship between science and art. 
‘Science and art naturally overlap. Both are a means of investigation. Both involve ideas, theories 
and hypotheses that are tested in places where mind and hand come together—the laboratory and 
studio. In ancient Greece, the word for art was techne, from which technique and technology are 
derived—terms that are aptly applied to both scientific and artistic practices.’ 
(Adapted from a lecture by Robert Eskridge entitled “Exploration and the Cosmos: The Consilience 
of Science and Art.” www.artic.edu) 
Robert Eskridge is another exponent of the ‘science is art’ brigade. 
So, because certain practices use the same technique, according to Robert Eskridge, that means they 
can be considered complementary to each other? Well, both a coroner and a surgeon have the same 
basic medical training but I know which one I would prefer to do my appendix operation! 
Looking further into the subject I discovered that two UCLA professors, media and net artist Victoria 
Vesna and nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski, have created a huge project, Nano, to again try 
and fuse art and science, or if not fuse it, at least change people's thinking a little. Their project, 
which is at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, shows the world of nanoscience through a 
participatory experience. 
‘The exhibition seeks to provide a greater understanding of how art, science, culture and technology 
influence each other. Modular, experiential spaces using embedded computing technologies engage 
all of the senses to provoke a broader understanding of nanoscience and its cultural ramifications. 
The various components of "nano" are designed to immerse the visitor in the radical shifts of scale 
and sensory modes that characterize nanoscience, which works on the scale of a billionth of a meter. 
Participants can feel what it is like to manipulate atoms one by one and experience nano-scale
structures by engaging in art-making activities.’ (http://nano.arts.ucla.edu/) 
Layout of NANO exhibition 
(http://nano.arts.ucla.edu/) 
In this installation, people walk through the various exhibits, which allows them to see and 
experience nanoscience. It is not just seeing as in an art gallery though; it is feeling the exhibit, the 
senses stimulated by the whole space, being part of the atoms and then being able to participate in 
manipulating the exhibit. So, in this way, art and science are in collaboration and one does become 
the other. 
On the issue of art and science Rick Doble says, ‘One of my goals as a contemporary artist has been 
to create connections with modern science.’ 
He also explains his thoughts behind the theme of patterns, that is a feature of much of his work (see 
www.rickdoble.net for the exhibits Snowflakes and Totem Poles) ‘As an artist I have always been 
fascinated by complex patterns and have studied the paintings and drawings of Jackson Pollock and 
WOLS quite carefully. In 1970 I spent four days absorbing the wonderful and visionary designs that 
cover the walls of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. In addition I looked at Bentley's 
snowflakes for many years before I decided to add color to them. I also studied the intricate paintings 
of Paul Klee, the deluge and cloudburst drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, the woodcuts of Albrecht 
Durer and spent quite a few hours experimenting with moiré patterns’ 
Rick goes on to say that many artists tend to avoid patterns except for use as a background. A 
movement that made more use of patterns purely for their decorative nature was the Art Nouveau 
movement from the late 19th, early 20th centuries. This is also another example of art and science (in 
this case the science of nature) being melded together in a complementary way. 
‘Life is made up of patterns, from the blood cells in our veins, to traffic flow in a city, to cloud 
formations. All material is made up of microscopic patterns that show how that material is 
constructed and held together. And our lives over time are filled with patterns; from morning to
evening we repeat and repeat day after day. Without these patterns life would not be possible.’ 
I believe there are a number of reasons that Rick has produced his images. Firstly, purely for their 
artistic merit. They can stand alone as vibrant absorbing images without one having any idea of their 
context and how they came into being. Rick also enjoys exploring, pushing the boundaries of art, 
photography and even science. He believes that photographers should actually take ‘bad’ images, just 
to see what turns out. He says we should purposely blur images, under and overexpose them and do 
things that, as a photography student, you spend years learning not to do. Furthermore, I believe, he 
wants to make people think about the link between science and art and how there can be some areas 
that are definable as either/or. 
All things, by immortal power, 
Near or far, 
Hiddenly 
To each other linked are, 
That thou canst not stir a flower 
Without troubling a star. 
(Francis Thompson (d. 1907), Oriental Ode) 
It doesn’t end here either! Rick sent me details of a proposal that he is trying to get funding for and it 
is a very exciting installation using his Big Bang data. 
This is one of his ideas: 
A Big Bang Maze 
After entering the maze a participant would see very fine images of the Big Bang on the walls of the 
maze. He or she then walks on further into the maze and the images are enlarged so you can see the 
amazing organic detail of them. Rick has enlarged his images up to 100 times and they often produce 
patterns that repeat yet are not repetitions. At the centre of the maze would be a room containing a 
live display of lights and sounds from the Big Bang signals at that particular moment in time. 
The aim of this exhibit is to unite art and science and to allow the participant to experience the Big 
Bang as something living and ongoing. It is not merely an event that happened millions of years ago. 
Its waves and ripples can be heard and felt still. 
This essay and the required research has forced me to look at the issues of science and art and I can 
see now that certain parts of the two practices do overlap and complement each other. For instance, I 
have previously mentioned that I think Rick’s images can stand on their own as art. However, 
through researching the production of the images, I have discovered that they have come into being 
by scientific means. Not only are they based in astronomy but also satellite technology is used to 
capture the raw CMB. Computer technology is used to ‘stain’ them and produce the images you see 
today. Lastly, computer technology in the form of the World Wide Web is used to show us these 
images. 
In conclusion, I am pleased to report that I have changed my mind somewhat about the science and 
art issue. While there are still things, especially in ‘modern art’ that are quite clearly technology and 
not at all aesthetic, that does not mean that they would not be considered art by some people. After
all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Furthermore, Rick’s images distinctly and elegantly combine 
art, science and technology in a fusion that is energetic, and exciting but so detailed and intricate. It 
is a combination that really works. 
Bibliography 
Christiane Paul – Digital Art (2003) 
Many quotes in my essay are direct responses to myself from Rick after I emailed him 
Webography 
George Gamow's Big Bang theory taken from http://evolution-facts.org/a03a.htm 
www.rickdoble.net 
http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest3.html 
www.sciart.com 
www.artic.edu 
www.corpoflondon.gov.uk 
http://nano.arts.ucla.edu/ 
NB: My research is not limited to the above mentioned. I researched various books and over 30 sites but only chose to use 
information from, or quote from the above as it was most relevant.
Rick Doble's Background 
After getting my Master's Degree in Media, in the mid-seventies, I worked with a brilliant 
research doctor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who, among other things, 
discovered a new blood cell. He taught me to "stain" images to bring out their structure. 
"Stain is the name of the game," he told me. 
This work here, from the Big Bang, came about, in part, because I had spent several years 
colorizing the microscopic black and white photographs of W.A. Bentley to bring out their 
structure. This work lead directly to these images where I took the idea of 'staining' to show 
structure, one step further. 
My snowflake pictures in turn were based on the work I had done in the late 1980s with the 
black and white images of human beings in motion by Eadweard Muybridge. His 
comprehensive landmark scientific study of Human and Animal Locomotion was made in 
the late 1800s. These images are now in the public domain. I selected, cropped, enlarged 
and then added color with a computer to a number of his photographs. This work has been 
exhibited at several museums and published as well. For this project I invented my own 
imaging system using the Radio Shack Color Computer. 
Personal Note: 
At the age of eleven I bought a telescope, made a model of the solar system for a school 
project and began to learn the constellations. When I was thirteen I read George Gamow's 
book One, Two, Three... Infinity and, as much as I could understand, read about Einstein's 
Theory of Relativity. In college I took a course in 20th century physics. I have done my best 
as a layman to keep up with the developments in astronomy since then.

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Digital Pictures Made Directly From the Big Bang Radio Signal by Rick Doble

  • 1. Live From the Big Bang: Digital Pictures Made Directly From the Big Bang Radio Signal by Rick Doble Copyright © Rick Doble 2003. All rights reserved. If you would like to use any of these images or text, you must contact me. There is no charge for teachers, students, or non-profit organizations. (rick_doble@yahoo.com) All photos of artwork are from commons.wikimedia.org.
  • 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS Forward Introduction Examples Of Biomorphic (ART) About These Images (SCIENCE) Art & Science Why Patterns? Harmony Of The Spheres Start of Big Bang Picture Gallery College Student Paper Doble's Background
  • 3. Foreword LIVE FROM THE BIG BANG These are real photographs that have been enhanced This work seeks to help bridge the gap between art and science as these pictures are a combination of both. These images were made directly from the radio waves created in the Big Bang. The Big Bang signals are the echo or afterglow of the single event that created the universe, our galaxy, our solar system, the planet Earth and ourselves. And while the Big Bang happened almost 14 billion years ago, these radio waves are happening now, this moment, everyday, and everywhere. They are ever present -- a signal from creation.
  • 4. Introduction What could be more primal than the Big Bang that created the Universe? And what could be more elementary than simple hydrogen atoms -- one positive particle and one negative particle -- which were originally created in this explosion and which lead to the Universe today along with our solar system, our Earth and ourselves? This huge explosion is still with us today in the form of an echo -- the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation or CMBR or CMB. Everyday everywhere on the Earth this harmless radiation is with us. But more than that this 'radio signal' from our origins, our birth, can be received by man-made equipment and made visible using digital techniques. I feel that at this fundamental point in our creation, art and science meet. Science found and revealed the CMBR which confirmed the Big Bang theory and whose discovery led to a Nobel Prize. Art has the ability to make the CMBR visible and accessible. By doing so, these images can provide a way of connecting people to their origins and also creating pictures that evoke a reverence for the miracle of life. The resulting images, photographs of static on a monitor, are organic. Rather than repeating and uniform like most static, the shapes are, instead, quite lifelike. And this is where science and art meet. Early in the 20th century several artists came up with the idea of biomorphism -- creating artistic shapes that were based on natural structures and natural processes. The imagery from the CMBR does just that. The shapes are not mathematical but a kind of 'primal soup', a squirming interconnected maze of in/out lines and forms that defy the imagination. They are fascinating at any enlargement.
  • 5. Examples Of Biomorphic (ART) Biomorphism is an art movement that began in the 20th century. It models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms. The Tate Gallery's online glossary article on biomorphic form specifies that while these forms are abstract, they "refer to, or evoke, living forms...". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomorphism In fine art, the term "Biomorphic Abstraction" describes the use of rounded abstract forms based on those found in nature. Also referred to as Organic Abstraction, this type of abstract art was not a school or movement, but a striking feature of the work of many different artists. http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/biomorphic-abstraction.htm Artists who created in this manner include: Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi who were both sculptors and the architect Antoni Gaudí. Here are some examples: Jean Arp
  • 7. Antoni Gaudí (from his cathedral in Barcelona)
  • 8. Enhanced Pictures From The CMBR Static Caused By The Big Bang
  • 9. About These Images (SCIENCE) As I have said, the radio signals received today that were produced by the Big Bang are technically defined as "cosmic microwave background radiation" or CMB or CMBR which is an "isotropic radiation bath that permeates the entire Universe" meaning that it is found everywhere in the Universe. While NASA uses satellites for its CMBR imagery, it is well established that ground based equipment can receive these signals. The problem then becomes how to separate the CMBR from man-made interference. With homemade optimized equipment it is reasonable to estimate that my raw images contain as much as 30% CMBR. I created these images with a homemade receiver and a specially modified monitor that was designed to maximize the received radiation from the Big Bang and reduce man-made and Earth based interference. I plan to keep tweaking my equipment to improve the reception and to reduce the amount of Earth created noise. I am hoping that future work will feel even more organic. Stay tuned! I tweaked my original photographs by enhancing the color already embedded in the pixels. I occasionally further enhanced these images by adding "false colors" (a technique that NASA uses) with computer software and using other computer processes to bring out their beautiful and random structure. I did not, however, change anything in their structure.
  • 10. Art & Science While science and art are often quite different, they just as often intersect. The CMBR radio waves are an example. The CMBR radio waves can be received as imagery or sound. Even scientists wax poetic when presented with the stunning reality of the CMBR -- it is as though the Universe itself were singing or talking. This is not a new idea but one that goes back hundreds of years and led to the the discovery of the how the planets moved -- by Kepler (see more below). So art, in the sense of aesthetics, i.e. song, harmony, is not a new idea or one that is far removed from science. In fact it may be central in some situations. Here are some comments about the sound aspect and a "harmony of the spheres." When The Universe Sang Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory The peaks [ED: in the CMBR] indicate harmonics in the sound waves that filled the early, dense universe. Until some 300,000 years after the Big Bang, the universe was so hot that matter and radiation were entangled in a kind of soup in which sound waves (pressure waves) could vibrate. The CMB is a relic of the moment when the universe had cooled enough so that photons could "decouple" from electrons, protons, and neutrons; then atoms formed and light went on its way. http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/cmb-harmonics.html BBC NEWS By mapping tiniest temperature fluctuations in CMB, astronomers can "see" distribution of matter in early Universe. Using a music analogy, last year we could tell what note we were seeing - if it was C sharp or F flat." "Now, we see not just one, but three of these peaks and can tell not only which note is being played, but also what instrument is playing it - we can begin to hear in detail the music of creation." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1304666.stm
  • 11. Primal Soup "Primordial soup" is a term introduced by the Soviet biologist Alexander Oparin. In 1924, he proposed a theory of the origin of life on Earth through the transformation, during the gradual chemical evolution of molecules that contain carbon in the primordial soup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial_soup Primal soup is a scientific term, reflecting one theory about how life evolved. While this theory is about the origins of life on Earth, it can just as easily be applied to an even more primal soup, the basic matter that led to the creation of the stars and the galaxies. One could look at these pictures as a kind of primordial soup, the basic soup from which we came from. These are more than just fascinating patterns, but designs that contain the origins of life at the most fundamental level. Color enhanced dense static containing radio signals from the Big Bang.
  • 12. WHY PATTERNS? Life is made up of patterns from the blood cells in our veins, to traffic flow in a city, to cloud formations. All material is made up of microscopic patterns that show how that material is constructed and held together. And our lives over time are filled with patterns; from morning to evening we repeat and repeat day after day. Without these patterns life would not be possible. Artists tend to avoid patterns except as a background. Patterns are often seen as being merely decorative and not to be taken seriously. Part of the reason is that man-made patterns are not as interesting as natural patterns since they repeat in a more predictable manner. Artistically we do not often look directly at patterns in and of themselves. In this exhibit I am asking viewers to do just that. Mark Tobey Tobey is most notable for his creation of so-called "white writing" - an overlay of white or light-colored calligraphic symbols on an abstract field which is often itself composed of thousands of small and interwoven brush strokes. This method, in turn, gave rise to the type of "all-over" painting style made most famous by Jackson Pollock, another American painter to whom Tobey is often compared. Tobey’s work is also defined as creating a vibratory space with the multiple degrees of mobility obtained by the Brownian movement of a light brush on a bottom with the dense tonalities. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Tobey
  • 14. Harmony Of The Spheres A belief in a 'harmony of the spheres' was one that was quite old going back to ancient times and guided Kepler in his precise observations of planetary motion. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis In this page from Kepler's book, he notates the music of each planet that he perceives. While medieval philosophers spoke metaphorically of the "music of the spheres", Kepler discovered physical harmonies in planetary motion. He found that the difference between the maximum and minimum angular speeds of a planet in its orbit approximates a harmonic proportion. For instance, the maximum angular speed of the Earth as measured from the Sun varies by a semitone (a ratio of 16:15), from mi to fa, betweenaphelion and perihelion. Venus only varies by a tiny 25:24 interval (called a diesis in musical terms). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonices_Mundi I grant you that no sounds are given forth, but I affirm . . . that the movements of the planets are modulated according to harmonic proportions. -- Johannes Kepler, 1619 Kepler's insight led to a mathematical understanding of the planets' movements which in turn led to the insights of Isaac Newton whose insights in turn led to the creation of the modern world. When looked at closely, it is often hard to distinguish where art ends and science begins or vice-versa.
  • 15. For nature is not merely present, but is implanted within things, distant from none; naught is distant from her... The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the universe... Giordano Bruno, Italian Philosopher, d. 1600 (burned at the stake for his ideas) First modern thinker to conceive of an infinite and relative Universe filled with many worlds.
  • 37. Digital Arts Processes Madeleine Reade-Lyons Module name: Digital Arts Processes ThamesValley University, London, U.K. I will be presenting and researching a digital artist called Rick Doble. He was born in Sharon, Connecticut on July 24th 1944, four days after the assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler. He has been a digital artist for 15 years and a photographer for over 30. He became enthralled with the stars in 1955, aged 11, and he bought an inexpensive telescope. His love of the stars became a lifelong passion and he is still learning about constellations and space today. At around the same time, his Mother bought him a microscope, thus introducing him to optics and lenses, which made photography easier to understand when he began to specialize in it at a later date. In 1957, at the age of 13, he studied Einstein as explained by George Gamow in his book, One, Two, Three…Infinity. He was greatly interested in Einstein’s explanation of ‘the fourth dimension’ and he has used this theory in some of his photographic animations (see www.rickdoble.net, the ‘States of Being’ personal GIF animations for further) Specifically, I will be concentrating on Rick Doble’s ‘Live from the Big Bang’ series, which is a series of over 100 images created directly from the radio waves or, Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation, of the Big Bang. I wrote to Rick about his images asking him various, probably mind numbingly basic, questions about his work. These included what his inspiration was, how he captured the data, how he colourised it, did he prefer the colourised or embossed versions and so on…I use many of his responses in my essay and my presentation. One of the important points he makes it that he finds the organic nature of his images the most fascinating aspect.
  • 38. Below is an example of one such image with colour: (www.rickdoble.net) Rick Doble says ‘These Big Bang signals are the echo, or afterglow, of the single event that created the universe, our galaxy, our solar system, the planet Earth and ourselves. This online exhibit seeks to help bridge the gap between art and science.’ ‘Enlarging them was the most exciting discovery. I was able to blow up small portions and maintain a considerable level of fine detail. Just like the Universe itself these pictures contain worlds within worlds, each fascinating in itself.’ George Gamow first predicted the existence of CMB radiation in 1948. He said that the Universe had been contracting for long ages and that, when it reached its limiting contraction of 10 to the 14th g/cc, or one hundred trillion times the density of water, it exploded. This is what we now know to be ‘The Big Bang’ NASA says ‘The Big Bang theory predicts that the early universe was a very hot place and that as it expands, the gas within it cools. Thus the universe should be filled with radiation that is literally the remnant heat left over from the Big Bang, called the “cosmic microwave background radiation”, or CMB.’ (http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov) ‘For nature is not merely present, but is implanted within things, distant from none; naught is distant from her... The power of each soul is itself somehow present afar in the universe...’ (Giordano Bruno, Italian Philosopher, d. 1600)
  • 39. NASA’s image explaining the CMB from the dawn of time http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest3.html I would like to pick up on what Rick said about bridging the gap between science and art. What he is saying there is important. To many people, myself included, art and science are two completely separate things and one does not become the other. So I am left with a question: Is something only ‘art’ when it is produced purely for the artistic and aesthetic properties of the piece? It is widely accepted that, in order to interpret and understand a piece of art, some context is necessary. Context can include background information about the artist, historical reference, the environment of the artist and also their perspective on the artwork.
  • 40. But, is one more important than the other in deciding if something is art? Is it the intention of the artist that makes it art or the perception of the viewer? I think that the perception of the viewer is more important in defining a piece as a ‘work of art’ To me, when I look at somebody’s work, I either have an emotional response to it or I don’t. If I don’t respond to a piece then, as far as I am concerned, it is not art. When I look at Leonardo Da Vinci’s technical drawings of his flying machine or his war machine, or any other architectural plans for that matter, I appreciate their aesthetic properties far more than I do their conventional properties. Leonardo Da Vinci’s War Machine (www.sciart.com)
  • 41. Indeed, all of Da Vinci’s technical drawings can now be bought in various forms purely for their artistic merit. I personally own a calendar, sadly it’s from 2003 so is now obsolete but I keep meaning to cut the images out and frame them! This image of the architectural plans for the new St Paul's Cathedral is quite clearly a technical drawing. However, its linearity and simplicity attract me to the image. This may just be because I am absolutely fascinated by St Paul's, its rich history, dominant architecture and pure beauty. It is actually my favourite London building; it even beats Craven Cottage home to my beloved Fulham! That is art. I truly believe that beauty, elegance and, in this case, artistic merit is in the eye of the beholder. You may not appreciate the plans of St Paul's in the way that I do and see them purely as the ‘artist’ intended them to be seen. That is science. Architectural plans of St Paul’s Cathedral
  • 42. www.corpoflondon.gov.uk/collage The Art Institute of Chicago began a year long course, Science, Art and Technology for the benefit of Public School teachers that wanted to look at the relationship between science and art. ‘Science and art naturally overlap. Both are a means of investigation. Both involve ideas, theories and hypotheses that are tested in places where mind and hand come together—the laboratory and studio. In ancient Greece, the word for art was techne, from which technique and technology are derived—terms that are aptly applied to both scientific and artistic practices.’ (Adapted from a lecture by Robert Eskridge entitled “Exploration and the Cosmos: The Consilience of Science and Art.” www.artic.edu) Robert Eskridge is another exponent of the ‘science is art’ brigade. So, because certain practices use the same technique, according to Robert Eskridge, that means they can be considered complementary to each other? Well, both a coroner and a surgeon have the same basic medical training but I know which one I would prefer to do my appendix operation! Looking further into the subject I discovered that two UCLA professors, media and net artist Victoria Vesna and nanoscience pioneer James Gimzewski, have created a huge project, Nano, to again try and fuse art and science, or if not fuse it, at least change people's thinking a little. Their project, which is at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, shows the world of nanoscience through a participatory experience. ‘The exhibition seeks to provide a greater understanding of how art, science, culture and technology influence each other. Modular, experiential spaces using embedded computing technologies engage all of the senses to provoke a broader understanding of nanoscience and its cultural ramifications. The various components of "nano" are designed to immerse the visitor in the radical shifts of scale and sensory modes that characterize nanoscience, which works on the scale of a billionth of a meter. Participants can feel what it is like to manipulate atoms one by one and experience nano-scale
  • 43. structures by engaging in art-making activities.’ (http://nano.arts.ucla.edu/) Layout of NANO exhibition (http://nano.arts.ucla.edu/) In this installation, people walk through the various exhibits, which allows them to see and experience nanoscience. It is not just seeing as in an art gallery though; it is feeling the exhibit, the senses stimulated by the whole space, being part of the atoms and then being able to participate in manipulating the exhibit. So, in this way, art and science are in collaboration and one does become the other. On the issue of art and science Rick Doble says, ‘One of my goals as a contemporary artist has been to create connections with modern science.’ He also explains his thoughts behind the theme of patterns, that is a feature of much of his work (see www.rickdoble.net for the exhibits Snowflakes and Totem Poles) ‘As an artist I have always been fascinated by complex patterns and have studied the paintings and drawings of Jackson Pollock and WOLS quite carefully. In 1970 I spent four days absorbing the wonderful and visionary designs that cover the walls of the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain. In addition I looked at Bentley's snowflakes for many years before I decided to add color to them. I also studied the intricate paintings of Paul Klee, the deluge and cloudburst drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, the woodcuts of Albrecht Durer and spent quite a few hours experimenting with moiré patterns’ Rick goes on to say that many artists tend to avoid patterns except for use as a background. A movement that made more use of patterns purely for their decorative nature was the Art Nouveau movement from the late 19th, early 20th centuries. This is also another example of art and science (in this case the science of nature) being melded together in a complementary way. ‘Life is made up of patterns, from the blood cells in our veins, to traffic flow in a city, to cloud formations. All material is made up of microscopic patterns that show how that material is constructed and held together. And our lives over time are filled with patterns; from morning to
  • 44. evening we repeat and repeat day after day. Without these patterns life would not be possible.’ I believe there are a number of reasons that Rick has produced his images. Firstly, purely for their artistic merit. They can stand alone as vibrant absorbing images without one having any idea of their context and how they came into being. Rick also enjoys exploring, pushing the boundaries of art, photography and even science. He believes that photographers should actually take ‘bad’ images, just to see what turns out. He says we should purposely blur images, under and overexpose them and do things that, as a photography student, you spend years learning not to do. Furthermore, I believe, he wants to make people think about the link between science and art and how there can be some areas that are definable as either/or. All things, by immortal power, Near or far, Hiddenly To each other linked are, That thou canst not stir a flower Without troubling a star. (Francis Thompson (d. 1907), Oriental Ode) It doesn’t end here either! Rick sent me details of a proposal that he is trying to get funding for and it is a very exciting installation using his Big Bang data. This is one of his ideas: A Big Bang Maze After entering the maze a participant would see very fine images of the Big Bang on the walls of the maze. He or she then walks on further into the maze and the images are enlarged so you can see the amazing organic detail of them. Rick has enlarged his images up to 100 times and they often produce patterns that repeat yet are not repetitions. At the centre of the maze would be a room containing a live display of lights and sounds from the Big Bang signals at that particular moment in time. The aim of this exhibit is to unite art and science and to allow the participant to experience the Big Bang as something living and ongoing. It is not merely an event that happened millions of years ago. Its waves and ripples can be heard and felt still. This essay and the required research has forced me to look at the issues of science and art and I can see now that certain parts of the two practices do overlap and complement each other. For instance, I have previously mentioned that I think Rick’s images can stand on their own as art. However, through researching the production of the images, I have discovered that they have come into being by scientific means. Not only are they based in astronomy but also satellite technology is used to capture the raw CMB. Computer technology is used to ‘stain’ them and produce the images you see today. Lastly, computer technology in the form of the World Wide Web is used to show us these images. In conclusion, I am pleased to report that I have changed my mind somewhat about the science and art issue. While there are still things, especially in ‘modern art’ that are quite clearly technology and not at all aesthetic, that does not mean that they would not be considered art by some people. After
  • 45. all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Furthermore, Rick’s images distinctly and elegantly combine art, science and technology in a fusion that is energetic, and exciting but so detailed and intricate. It is a combination that really works. Bibliography Christiane Paul – Digital Art (2003) Many quotes in my essay are direct responses to myself from Rick after I emailed him Webography George Gamow's Big Bang theory taken from http://evolution-facts.org/a03a.htm www.rickdoble.net http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101bbtest3.html www.sciart.com www.artic.edu www.corpoflondon.gov.uk http://nano.arts.ucla.edu/ NB: My research is not limited to the above mentioned. I researched various books and over 30 sites but only chose to use information from, or quote from the above as it was most relevant.
  • 46. Rick Doble's Background After getting my Master's Degree in Media, in the mid-seventies, I worked with a brilliant research doctor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill who, among other things, discovered a new blood cell. He taught me to "stain" images to bring out their structure. "Stain is the name of the game," he told me. This work here, from the Big Bang, came about, in part, because I had spent several years colorizing the microscopic black and white photographs of W.A. Bentley to bring out their structure. This work lead directly to these images where I took the idea of 'staining' to show structure, one step further. My snowflake pictures in turn were based on the work I had done in the late 1980s with the black and white images of human beings in motion by Eadweard Muybridge. His comprehensive landmark scientific study of Human and Animal Locomotion was made in the late 1800s. These images are now in the public domain. I selected, cropped, enlarged and then added color with a computer to a number of his photographs. This work has been exhibited at several museums and published as well. For this project I invented my own imaging system using the Radio Shack Color Computer. Personal Note: At the age of eleven I bought a telescope, made a model of the solar system for a school project and began to learn the constellations. When I was thirteen I read George Gamow's book One, Two, Three... Infinity and, as much as I could understand, read about Einstein's Theory of Relativity. In college I took a course in 20th century physics. I have done my best as a layman to keep up with the developments in astronomy since then.