The 90’s. Unique matings of seemingly disparate disciplines thrust us into revelations and relationships once impossible to imagine. Holograms, 3-D imaging, and virtual reality inform a new generation of artists. Crossovers abound. The electron microscope and magnetic resonance imaging create windows on the limitless expanse of inner worlds—fertile ground for visionaries and dreamers.
Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc., of Ridgefield, Connecticut, has commissioned the New York City–based company Creative Media Concepts to create a series of images depicting the life cycle of the HIV virus and its reaction to BI-RG-587, a compound discovered by Dr. Vincent Merluzzi, Dr. Karl Hargrave, and a team of scientists from Boehringer Ingelheim. Working on a computer with writer and creative director Maureen Mangiardi of CMC, and with Dr. Johanna Griffin, director of Boehringer’s Molecular Biology Department, painter Regina Tierney has created the following interpretations of the HIV viral cycle, integrating theory and fact, art and science.
