Drawing for nr 1 science journal Nature cover. Art *helps scientists.
Had an honour to create a drawing for “Nature” journal cover: ‘A genetic improvisation on a world map’, to draw attention to the study lead by director of Estonian Biocentre Mait Metspalu and scientist of Cambridge University Toomas Kivisild. The study was selected by journal Science among 10 most influential scientific breakthroughs of 2016.
This is one very good example to illustrate the wide array of possible purposes and roles of art and artists in co-op with other fields, that goes far beyond expressing oneself, decorate some room, create good feeling, even make the viwer to think of problems of society, etc.
*In this case the role / aim of artwork was NOT to illustrate, but to get a visual and thus also textual reference on the cover of the journal, thus bringing much more attention to to the enormously extensive and important work of dozens of international scientists, that would have otherwise remained perhaps more hidden.
Had also an honor to paint variations of the same artwork as prizes for “Project of the year of Tartu” - Estonian National Museum (www.erm.ee), also called Estonias project of the century, by architects Dan Dorell, Lina Ghotmeh & Tsuyoshi Tane.
Photo: Major Urmas Klaas and editor in cheif of newpaper Postimees Lauri Hussar handing over the prizes to director of ERM Tõnis Lukas and Peeter Mauer from State Real Estate Ltd. Photo by Ove Maidla.
Impromaps
There are other maps in the series of "Impromaps". See more here: M.art.ee/maps
The maps from this series were also represented in the National Atlas of Estonia | University of Tartu
About the scientific work:
Three international collaborations reporting in this issue of Nature describe 787 high-quality genomes from individuals from geographically diverse populations. David Reich and colleagues analysed whole-genome sequences of 300 individuals from 142 populations. Read more about the report the drawing illustrates: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v538/n7624/
Read more here: The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations
My greatest thanks to the scientists for trust and opportunity:
Swapan Mallick, Heng Li, Mark Lipson, Iain Mathieson, Melissa Gymrek, Fernando Racimo,Mengyao Zhao, Niru Chennagiri, Susanne Nordenfelt, Arti Tandon, Pontus Skoglund, Iosif Lazaridis, Sriram Sankararaman, Qiaomei Fu, Nadin Rohland, Gabriel Renaud, Yaniv Erlich, Thomas Willems, Carla Gallo, Jeffrey P. Spence, Yun S. Song, Giovanni Poletti,Francois Balloux, George van Driem, Peter de Knijff, Irene Gallego Romero, Aashish R. Jha, Doron M. Behar, Claudio M. Bravi, Cristian Capelli, Tor Hervig, Andres Moreno-Estrada, Olga L. Posukh, Elena Balanovska, Oleg Balanovsky, Sena Karachanak-Yankova,Hovhannes Sahakyan, Draga Toncheva, Levon Yepiskoposyan, Chris Tyler-Smith, Yali Xue, M. Syafiq Abdullah, Andres Ruiz-Linares, Cynthia M. Beall, Anna Di Rienzo,Choongwon Jeong, Elena B. Starikovskaya, Ene Metspalu, Jüri Parik, Richard Villems,Brenna M. Henn, Ugur Hodoglugil, Robert Mahley, Antti Sajantila, George Stamatoyannopoulos, Joseph T. S. Wee, Rita Khusainova, Elza Khusnutdinova, Sergey Litvinov, George Ayodo, David Comas, Michael F. Hammer, Toomas Kivisild, William Klitz,Cheryl A. Winkler, Damian Labuda, Michael Bamshad, Lynn B. Jorde, Sarah A. Tishkoff, W. Scott Watkins, Mait Metspalu, Stanislav Dryomov, Rem Sukernik, Lalji Singh, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, Nick Patterson & David Reich
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