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PlantSeedMan

Sketch for 'PlantSeedMan' by Eleanor Gates_Stuart

Sketch for ‘PlantSeedMan’ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

PlantSeedMan

Sketch and Unfinished / Rough Cut Sequence for ‘PlantSeedMan’ Installation
Video collage based on future food and wheat as part of the StellrScope Science Art Project.

Video composition using 3D kinect body scanning by Chuong Nguyen, Installation Prototype with Matt Adcock and Dulitha Ranatunga, Video and artwork by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Raw sound files from wheat footage filmed in location @ CSIRO - https://vimeo.com/64972299


Massive & MAGICal

Massive and MAGICal – ‘MAGICal Wheat’ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart in collaboration with Dr Sherry Mayo, CSIRO.

On-going StellrScope research on wheat structures and visualising the wheatear. Sherry produced a 3D micro-CT scan of a section of wheat and Drishti to render the data. MAGICal A is merged with the movie file – both image files are connected to 3D spatial data of wheat, its DNA and growth.

This movie file is a preview to the forthcoming, CSIRO informed science art works StellrScope at Questacon in August and at the CSIRO Discovery Centre.

 


Visualisation Wheat in 3D

Image: 'Wheat Section' by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Image: ‘Wheat Section’ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

This image, shown as a 2D image representation of a wheatear, is in fact, composed from a CT Scan and rendered through 3D software, Drishti and Maya.

The 3D images are to be used in artworks for the exhibition at Questacon – Maya version shown on eleanorgatestuart

Original CT Scan by Dr Sherry Mayo (CSIRO)


Cubist Dimension

Sketch: 'cube4' by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Sketch: ‘cube4′ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Thinking beyond the square… next series of sketches for proposed installation work, in collaboration with Chuong Nguyen, Matt Adcock and Dulitha Ranatunga.


IMPRINT: New Technologies & Alternative Media

IMPRINT Article, 'StellrScope' by Eleanor Gates-Stuart & Clive Barstow

IMPRINT Article, ‘StellrScope’ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart & Clive Barstow

Article: StellrScope, the Centenary of Canberra’s Science Art Commission by Eleanor Gates-Stuart and Clive Barstow

IMPRINT, The Journal of the Print Council of Australia

New Technologies and Alternative Media

Autumn 2013   Volume 48   No. 1 Pages 30/31

Journal available: http://www.printcouncil.org.au/imprint/imprint-autumn-2013 or via Contact

Cover: ‘MAGICal_B’ 2012 by Eleanor Gates-Stuart


Giant Wheat

3D Wheat Concept by Eleanor Gates-Stuart: Enlighten 2013 Architectural projection on Questacon

3D Wheat Concept by Eleanor Gates-Stuart: Enlighten 2013 Architectural Projection on Questacon

Giant Wheat on Questacon, ‘Oasis’ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart as part of the Enlighten 2013 Festival in Canberra. The architectural projections were screened by Electric Canvas and 5 artists were selected to produce artwork for different buildings across the Parliamentary Triangle.

Artwork by Eleanor Gates-Stuart on Questacon as Part of Enlighten 2013

Artwork by Eleanor Gates-Stuart on Questacon as Part of Enlighten 2013

Oasis’ is part of the New Crop series as seen in previous postings, Bio Wheat and First Crop.

Photograph: Questacon with ‘Oasis’ Artwork by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Links:

See More on StellrScope Enlighten 2013 Page

Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 


William Farrer Diaries

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‘Carbon Copy’, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart – Inspired by William Farrer Diaries

This is my first post of 2013 – the Centenary of Canberra Year. Having recently returned to view William Farrer Diaries at the National Library of Australia, I felt inspired to create this image dedicated to William Farrer.

Last year, I remember being in the manuscipts room at the NLA and feeling overwhelmed with all the artifacts at hand, yet very excitied and now back on track to see where this journey takes the research.

I found the carbon paper in his diary intriguing, a single piece of paper that holds so much information, a layering of sentence upon sentence .. words .. more words. It resonated with the way I produce much of my work, embedding layers and layers of information as a foundation and structure.

Unfortunately, this image does not give you the feeling of handling the book and the incredible sound of the crisp delicate paper.. something that has so much history and with context to Australia’s wheat legacy.

I hope to include more of William Farrer in my exhibition in August – the influence is already there.


Maximising Yield in a Changing Climate

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Image, ‘Hot Seeds’ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

Inspired by the research at CSIRO relating to plant genetics and molecular biology. In particular, Dr Megan Hemming in her focus on the development and yield in cereals.

Megan shared her microscope images of the main shoot wheat apex and I have combined these with photographs of grain.

Reference:

Hemming et al, Identification of High Temperature-Responsive Genes in Cereals. 2012


Wheat Scan

Wheat Photograph by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Wheat samples for CT scanning.

Image: ‘Wheat Scan I’ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

First CT scan test completed (low-res version). More testing to follow soon.

‘Wheat Scan I’ is a coloured version of the grey scale scan.

CT Scan kindly produced by Dr Fredrick Ford.

Images show StellrScope watermark – high-res images are availbale.

Animated CT sections:

This video relates to a CT scan of wheat and shows the sections scanned throughout the wheat.


Surreal Plant Structures

Image, ‘Wheatear3y’ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

WheatEar images created as part of on-going 3D scanning process to recreate Wheat Crop models.  ’Wheatear3y’ is a reconstructed composition of plant structures to provide a sense of internal / external structure and beauty of the wheat plant.

Here are a series of three structures illustrating the surreal plant structures as developed for StellrScope Collection.

Image, ‘Wheatear4′ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

Image, ‘Wheatear2′ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

Image, ‘Wheartear3′ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

The three ‘Wheatear’ images create a stunning large scale installation / projection piece as in the uncanny rescaling of nature

Image, ‘Wheatear3x3′ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

Reference: Original wheat scan by Dr Chuong Nguyen.

 

 

 

 


BioWheat

BioWheat, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

3D image, BioWheat, a bioinformatic variety.

Research data “Heatmap” from Dr David Lovell (CMIS, CSIRO).

David Lovell: The underlying texture is a drawn from a “heatmap” that depicts the similarity of gene expression profiles over a time course experiment

Data-Heatmap, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart in collaboration with David Lovell (CSIRO).


Wheat Ear

Chlorophyllx4, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

Wheat Ear captured with Chlorophyll Fluorescence Imaging at CSIRO the Australian Plant Phenomics Facility 

 

Technical support kindly by Scott Kwasny


Supreme

Supreme, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

‘Supreme’ – Celebrating scientific innovation and experimentalism

Image Reference: William Farrer’s Field Diary – National Library of Australia


DNA

DNA, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

DNA‘ modified and related to ‘Sequence1


WheatScape

WheatScape, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

The strange world of ‘WheatScape’……and the ‘Wild Ancestors’

Mock-up stage and concept development towards new 3D imageworks


First Crop

First Crop, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

‘First Crop’, this is a 2D representation of a 3D virtual crop. (Work in progress)

©Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 


Image Analysis – Sequence1

Sequence1, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

 

Image analysis study – ‘Sequence1′

New series of images relating to the mapping of research data and simple rules of colour matrix

 

Image References:

(Wheat chromosomes and bread wheat homoeologous G-Based chromosomes)

Appels, Morris, Gill & May, Chromosome Biology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998.

 


Farrer Insights

Visionary, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

‘Visionary’ dedicated to William Farrer

Image references William Farrer’s Field Notes (National Library of Australia)


Grains

Grains, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Grains … A closer view – resistant starch

Note: Embedded grain scan provided by Steve Jobling (CSIRO) 


Manufactured

Manufactured, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Manufactured, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

a measure of ingredients……

Originally published on Contacts Page


Wheat in Time (Rough Cut)

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Wheat in Time, Video by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Using StellrScope wheat images to research low tech’ motion and spatial concepts.


Compositional Blends

Compositional Extract I, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Compositional Extract – Blend I & II…….. a mixture of relative data and balanced ingredients

Compositional Extract – Blend II, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart


BreadScape

BreadScape, Image by Eleanor Gates-Stuart

Multigrain slice of bread

Measure and elasticity of dough


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Images completed in the MAGICal Series. Click on an image to see slideshow.

Results shown are low resolution images.


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