Stanford Materials Research Society

Art of Science 2024

Congratulations to Art of Science 2024 Winners! Sean Littleton’s “Woodworking with the Controlled Chaos of High Voltage Discharges” won this year competition first place. The beautiful charred patterns on the bench were created by a high voltage applied to the wood surface coated with conductive solution. Emily Ellefson took the second place with their “Stereisporites antiquaporites study”. The microscopic image illustrates the cross section of a rock bearing the Stereisporites antiquaporites fossil with an interesting three-fold symmetry. Third place belongs to Camila Bolle’s “Nail deGrasse Tyson” which showcases different science fields painted skillfully on ten nail tips. Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath won over People’s Choice with their “Conway’s Trees of Life – A Garden of Computational Irreducibility”. The colorful sculptures were 3D printed based on the Game of Life mathematical model of predicting the evolution of cells. 

This year, we celebrated the 13th annual Art of Science Exhibition with close to 100 submissions by artists from 30 unique departments. The exhibition also welcomed around 200 guests coming to support the artists’ work. Thank you to all the wonderful artists, judges, organizers, sponsors, and audiences who made this event possible!

Image Gallery

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Sean Littleton, our first prize winner, and their artwork, “Woodworking with the Controlled Chaos of High Voltage Discharges”.
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Emily Ellefson with their “Stereisporites antiquaporites study” microscopic image winning the second place this year.
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The “Nail deGrasse Tyson” won the third place by representing ten scientific fields painted on nails by Camila Bolle.
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Hadil Habashneh and their bioplastic pieces made of finely-grinded coffee beans, “ABAQ (Arabic for Aroma)”.
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“All those silver linings” taken as photographs by Eliana Krakovsky.
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Koh Terai showcased their beautiful sculpture, “Caustics”, which consists of a yellow light shone underneath three separatory funnel dropping water at three different frequencies, projecting never-repeating ripple patterns onto the ceiling.
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The “Conway's Trees of Life -- A Garden of Computational Irreducibility” by Rajat Vadiraj Dwaraknath won the People’s Choice.
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“The Nucleotide Song” is beautifully composed and showcased digitally by Ceyda Tekin.
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Shintaro Fushida-Hardy 3D printed the “Frogbit Network” to study large scale symmetries phenomenon.
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"Lone Koi (孤鯉) in a Spherulitic Sea" by Kelly Xiao and Tri Nguyen, a colored scanning electron image juxtaposing antimony-selenide in its crystalline phase (koi fish) and spherulitic domains (water).
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“Under the Skin - Lady with an Ermine” by Hansen Tao is a charcoal painting with an incredible anatomical analysis inspired by the original piece, “Lady with an Ermine” by Leonardo Da Vinci
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“Amateur Ampoule Pull” by Sophia Bailey, an aesthetic way to seal chemicals.
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Helena Guan’s “Uniform” includes two transfer prints of the cleanroom hairnets using acrylic paint on papers.
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This piece describes how Daisy O’Mahoney “measuring spin waves” in their lab: clustering, chaos, but precise and impactful.
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Artist Vince Pane carved “Eternity in an hour” from a single block of wood to unveil the 3D realities of the original 2D artworks by M.C. Escher.