Grupo de Investigação | Research Group:

This research area aims at an investigation about the way in which the function and status and representative capacity of scientific and artistic images are affected by the introduction of new technologies of image production (in particular photography, cinema and digital). This implies the understanding of how data-images work in actual scientific practice and how image counts as visual evidence in science. In this sense, this area has to distinct objectives: the first one consists on a specific research on the unique place of photography as art of science and science of art, which requires the discussion of the different systems used in photographic representation in comparison with the traditional methods of illustration (drawing, water color, engraving, lithography). The second one involves a specific research on images as devices for seeing the invisible which encompasses the study of the history of atom imagery in the context of the history of the devices of visibility of the invisible, as well as the profound transformations that, in the historical evolution of atomism, the imagery of the atom underwent throughout the history of the philosophy and science, with its culmination in Quantum Physics and at the scale of Nanosciences.