Other boxes seem to contain pulsating molecules or whole galaxies. Her internship is part of the U.K.'s Year of the Artist, which has settled 1,000 creators of all kinds in locations from factories to women's refuges. The show is at the lab until Mar. 25, and then goes on the road. Visitors who don the gloves and plunge into the interior will find the black box contains several pebble-like plastic objects. Thanks to an infrared sensor on one glove, their images lurch into view.
Coordination is tricky.
As a student at Bergen's Vestlandets Kunstakademi she worked with a professor from the Institute of Botany who gave her a lifetime's collection of pollen grain images. Everywhere you walk you have machines, people, monitors and wires. That's what visitors must do as they explore Watling's unlabeled devices. Color-coded versions are projected in yellow, aqua and violet. Her next project involves using an environmental scanning electron microscope, which can observe bubbles bursting and crystals growing, to make a 3-D film.