Nature on Screen

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Laboratory Practice

Scientific work happens around the clock, at scales both large and small. What science “work” actually means, has many different answers. Laboratories decide to record their own activities to keep track of all different kinds of “work” completed so far. Film records assist in the creation and maintenance of archives, and additionally themselves constitute vital data. Film documentation from the laboratories of CSAIL at MIT, and B.F. Skinner at Harvard, provides material for discussion of the relationship between “image,” “object” and “work” in the laboratory.