Magnetic Movie

In Ruth Harman and Joe Gerhardt's 2007 movie "Magnetic Movie," they partner with UC Berkeley's NASA's Space Sciences Laboratories to explore the invisible world of magnetic forces. Using bright colors and scientific research, Harman and Gerhardt create a world unseen by any human eye. Because magnetic fields are hard to physically see, there are discussions about whether or not thats truly what they look like, but the artists bring to life this mysterious world. Using sound effects from actual documented science experiments, the artists act like scientists as they discover a whole new world.

This article and movie was fascinating because one never realizes how the magnetic field of the earth is all around them. Different shapes of particles and the force of the field create images, as depicted by the artists, that no one has ever seen. Like I have always believed, science and art and closely related and in this you can see the marriage perfectly. Maybe we can use art to discover even more about science that we didn't know.