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With the opening of a science gallery in Dublin in January, Irish artists are well placed to contribute works that cross the divide between science and art, writes Cathy Dillon.

There are plenty of slim, silver laptops placed on the elegant tables in a well-decorated room upstairs in the Odessa club in Dublin. Artists who are working on the borders between art and science are gathered for a "show and tell", to introduce us to their work and pitch ideas for projects for Dublin's first Festival of Light, which will open the new Science Gallery at Trinity College in January 2008.