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Abstract/more information at: 

http://xlink.rsc.org/?DOI=D0FD00036A 

The supporting theoretical research aims to contextualize the advances of “smart” technology within the art historical and contemporary contexts of ‘naturalistic’ representation, mimesis and simulation, while also positioning this within the current emergence of similar biomimetic strategies within science.

exhibition and artworks portfolio

FARADAY DISCUSSIONS (2020)

F. Schenk and D.G. Stavenga, “The Lesser Purple Emperor butterfly: From Mimesis to Biomimetics”. Faraday Discuss., 223, 145-160, 2020


* Conference paper

* Refereed journal article

* Artwork on the cover

* Solo exhibition at Hive Gallery,Birmingham,UK

Solo-exhibition at THE HIVE, 2020

MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE (2019)

From Mimesis to Biomimetics: towards "smarter" art.

 

* Conference paper 

* Exhibition at the conference

* Group exhibition at Highbury Hall,Birmingham,UK



 

HIGHBURY HALL (2019)

exhibition



presentation

 

Taking inspiration from nature, and notably the chameleonesque, the aim of this cluster of inter-related practice-based research projects has been to introduce, via novel colour-shift, ‘the dynamic’ into painting – historically a decidedly static medium. In doing so, capturing on canvas the process of oscillation between the permanent and the ephemeral, the recognizable and the obscure, revelation and camouflage.

FRANZISKA SCHENK 

 

BIOMIMETICS, COLOUR AND

THE ARTS

 

5-minute synopsis of the published paper as presented and debated at Faraday Discussion (2020)

 

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Both for scientists and artists there remains much to be garnered from nature’s ingenuity. And with the promise of new horizons heralded by the arrival of “smart” technology (which in fact copies primaeval natural nano-structures), it may well turn out that there is still life in the “antiquated” medium of painting.

PROCESS 

from lab to canvas


Developing THE PURPLE EMPEROR painting (2017-2020)


small paintings examples (2015-2017)

A short video synopsis detailing the development and application of novel colour shift technology for painting.

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The International Society for Optics and Photonics [SPIE] San Diego (2015)

F. Schenk, “Biomimetics, Color and the Arts”, Proc. SPIE  9429, Bioinspiration, Biomimetics, and Bioreplication, 2015.


* Published conference paper

* Exhibition at the conference

* Featured work at Fribourg Museum

* selection of examples of artworks

 


Located at the interface of art and science, and deploying discursive, transdisciplinary methodologies, the research links fine art practice with evolutionary bioscience and optical physics - the trajectory being to catapult the ancient medium of painting into the nanoage. 

presentation 

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Abstract and more information at: 

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2084302

Fribourg Museum

(2018 - 2019)