A flyer on a college campus known for both its hard sciences and its fine arts programs is headlined, “Science as Art Contest”.
Please, explain in a few short sentences what sort of event or opportunity you think that statement is advertising. Right off the top of your head. No peeking at other peoples’ answers!
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A giant choreographed Mentos and Diet Coke explosion? (this of course being the most spectacular one to date)
A completely lifelike female pleasure-bot?
An Apple expo? 
“Science as art” makes me think of some of the things I’ve seen at the MIT Museum. There are the strobe photographs invented by Harold Edgerton, lots of people have seen those. They also have some sculptures by Arthur Ganson. I think my favorite is Machine with Concrete; an electric motor turns a 50-to-1 reduction gear. The output of that turns another. Twelve in all, and the final shaft is embedded in a block on concrete. Might as well, it will take two trillion years to turn just once.
Here’s a collection of images from the Materials Research Society’s Science as Art contest.
The first things that come to mind would be photography through a microscope and photography through a telescope. Then if you were going for something that wasn’t as expected, some sort of visual, yet understandable interpretation of science. Maybe a painting of the fibonacci sequence or some molecules or something.
Pictures taken by scientific equipment.
Posting without having read anyone’s answers:
I would think the advertisement was for a photography exhibit where I might view pictures of microscopic crystalline structures magnified and color-enhanced, fractals, etc.
That’s got to be wrong because it’s too obvious and wouldn’t have generated a thread.
ETA: When do we get to know what was being advertised?
Cool microphotographs on neat stuff, like the Nikon Small World competition?
ETA: Having read the thread, everyone seems to have thought of this…
I thought of things like this. Sorry if it’s a repeat but I followed the directions and didn’t read the thread.
My first thought is photomicroscopy. Fluorescence microscopy photoscan be quite nice.
I think of a contest I once saw with stunning beautiful microscopy photos of “scientific” type things (microchips, nanoparticles, crystals, etc).
On edit: the exact one that Typo Knig mentioned in post #5.
Didn’t peak.
An art show using scientific imagery- electron micrographs put together as a collage, repeating images of something artistically arranged, etc.
My guess.
Science ideas, displayed in an artistic way, at some sort of public space.
For prizes.
A contest involving art based on science? Like, say, an artist’s rendition of the surface of Pluto based on spacecraft photos?
I’d guess it’s a contest of things produced in the course of scientific resarch, but judged purely for their aesthetic value. Images taken by scientific instruments, various ways to visualize observational data, various pictures that show results of numerical calculations, etc. Hubble images and fractals are obvious examples.
Not reading the thread:
I immediately think microscopy and tattoos. Microscopy because there are some amazingly beautiful things we can’t see with the naked eye, and tattoos because the chemistry of modern tattoo inks has made possible probably the most revolutionary art form of the last 30 years. Some of the stunning work today just would not have been possible 30 years ago, no matter the talent of the artist.
Upon reading the thread:
OK, so the microscopy idea has a lot of followers!
An art show whos theam is the artistic impact of science.
My first impulse is to say it’s probably a contest for really great microscopy or other scientific imaging.
That or green fluorescent bunnies as conceptual art.
I love this sort of stuff.
I’m a big fan of Nanoputians, for example.
ETA: here are some more. There are more exstensive lists, but this one shows a lot.