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Thursday, February 10, 2011

“UF art competition unites science and beauty - Independent Florida Alligator”

“UF art competition unites science and beauty - Independent Florida Alligator”


UF art competition unites science and beauty - Independent Florida Alligator

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Posted: Friday, February 11, 2011 12:02 am | Updated: 11:33 pm, Thu Feb 10, 2011.

The third annual "Elegance of Science" art contest, which showcases research being done at UF in an artistic format, is being held this month.

Students, faculty, staff and alumni are eligible to submit art. A panel of judges will award undetermined prizes for first, second and third place in addition to a $200 alumni prize courtesy of the UF Alumni Association.

A maximum of five submissions are allowed per contestant, and artwork is limited to two-dimensional images in JPEG format with a resolution of about 800 by 600 pixels. Artists must also send a paragraph narrative explaining the art.

The contest began as a fun way to bridge the gap between the UF science community and the libraries, said Joe Baca, library associate at the Marston Science Library and coordinator of the contest.

According to Baca, the judges are looking for images that are created in the pursuit of research at UF. Entries from any and all disciplines are accepted as long as they're science related.

Selection criteria include artistic or scientific merit, degree to which the entry puts a new perspective on either science or art, success in translating between artistic and scientific vocabularies and creativity of approach.

Some past entries have included cells under a microscope, close-ups of flowers, animals, wood and leaves, kaleidoscope-like images and water.

The contest is co-sponsored by the Health Science Center Library, the Architecture & Fine Arts Library and the UF Alumni Association.

Posted in Campus on Friday, February 11, 2011 12:02 am. Updated: 11:33 pm. Frontnews

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