DC Science Café: Picturing Science — the joys and concerns of scientific image-making

Science is about revealing what has never been seen and discerned before. Visual depictions of nature date back tens of thousands of years in cave paintings. But the tools and techniques that today’s researchers, designers, and artists now can wield to compose visual representations of scientific discoveries has led to a veritable and always expanding Louvre of gorgeous and telling scientific imagery. This same facility in image-making also has opened up conundrums regarding the boundaries of science, art, and sound representation. Join a discussion with three professionals who have been wrestling with those boundaries even as they have been expanding them.