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“Study the science of art and the art of science.” - Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci: "Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses and especially, learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else" and "only through experimentation can we know anything."
Science is the king of art subjects. It is the art of inventions, discoveries, innovations and gaining more knowledge.
"Science is the new art".
Science-art: selling art to scientists and science to artists.
Education is all about learning all those you want to learn and applying wherever possible.
Albert Einstein’s quote — “the greatest scientists are artists as well”.
Science has always relied on visual representation to convey key concepts.
‘If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.’ - Albert Einstein
Math is undeniably artistic
An interdisciplinary researcher must face the challenge of being proficient in two (or multiple) different research areas! Not only must s/he be familiar with key principles and methodology in each area, but also understand baseless "biases" and "dogmas" that are a result of inbreeding, and struggle to fight these, as new knowledge emerges from her/his research. An unenviable task indeed! The pointlessness of evaluating such researchers work with conventional metrics should be aptly emphasized.
“The best scientists, engineers and mathematicians are incredibly creative in their approaches to problem-solving and application development”.
"Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her." – Jacob Bronowski
In scientia veritas, in arte honestas — in science truth, in art honor
E.W. Sinnot, the American biologist and philosopher: "Stored images in the mind are the basis for new creative ideas."
Science based art and literature : communicating complexity through simplicity - Krishna
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
--Physicist and Violinist Albert Einstein
Music gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything by Anonymous
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art - Will Durant
Life itself is a beautiful interaction between art and science. You can't escape it! - Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
"The Science of Art is like putting a microphone to the whispers of creativity that echo through the halls of every research laboratory fused with the late night musings of the artists in their studios" - Sachi DeCou
“Every Science begins as Philosophy and ends as Art, it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement”- Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy
Scientists can be artists as well, while they submit their academic papers, and theses they often draw their own illustrations!
Is suffering really necessary? Yes and no. If you had not suffered as you have, there would be no depth to you, no humility, no compassion.
-Eckhart Tolle
Science has enabled the kind of art we’ve never before seen.
Without the arts, science is hobbled. Without science, art is static.
John Maeda wrote of Leonardo da Vinci’s observations that art is the queen of science.
“Science is as much cultural as art is cultural,”
Art is science made clear (what!).
"The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." - Aristotle.
Science is a search for answers, based on logic, rationality and verification. Its workplace is the laboratory.
In contrast, art is a search for questions, based on intuition, feeling and speculation. Its workplace is the studio.
DaVinci himself said, "Art is the queen of all sciences communicating knowledge to all the generations of the world. "
"Art is the heart's explosion on the world. Music. Dance. Poetry. Art on canvas, on walls, on our skins. There is probably no more powerful force for change in this uncertain and crisis-ridden world than young people and their art. It is the consciousness of the world breaking away from the strangle grip of an archaic social order." - Luis J. Rodriguez.
For Dawkins, understanding the science behind natural phenomena (and sometimes being reminded of how much more we have yet to learn or discover) can still make our encounters with them sublime. From this point of view, science is the champion of artistic creativity, not its enemy.
"Scientists and artists are both trying to get a better understanding of the world around us, but they are doing it through different lenses,"
It takes many skills to achieve truly remarkable things. A diverse view to solving problems is best.
You need a deep understanding of science to actually manipulate concepts in novel ways and get creative in science - Krishna
"If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint ... and that voice will be silenced, but only by working."
-- Vincent van Gogh, in a letter to his brother Theo, 28 October 1883.
"The line between art and science is a thin one, and it waves back and forth”
"One of the most common misconceptions about science is that it isn't creative — that it is inflexible, prescribed or boring. Actually, creativity is a crucial part of how we do science"!
"All knowledge has its origins in perception." Da Vinci.
“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful to do so. He studies it because he takes pleasure in it; and he takes pleasure in it because it is beautiful." Jules Henri Poincare
The beauty of art lies in the inimitable creativity of the artist and in the interpretation of the beholder.
"Artists see things one way and scientists another and the really interesting thing is in what's in between."
Einstein’s support of artistic endeavors is both well-known and well-documented.
“The greatest scientists are artists as well,” he once said.
Atul Dodiya (Indian Artist) : Life is beautiful as a painter. Changing colour, observing life and paying attention to every detail that we’re exposed to, and then giving our own vision to it… Nothing gives me more joy.
Art : You accomplish a task that is called art as there is no specific postulates or guidelines.
Science : You do the work with a set of guidelines.
"Change and risk-taking are normal aspects of the creative process. They are the lubricants that keep the wheels in motion. A creative act is not necessarily something that has never been done; it is something you have never done."
-- Nita Leland in The Creative Artis
Pablo Picasso once said, "Good artists copy, great artists steal." All creative artists build upon the work established by the masters before them. ( Not me!- Krishna)
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep – Scott Adams
‘Art makes science come alive for students’
Albert Einstein - “The greatest scientists are artists as well”.
“ Science art shows some of the incredible natural beauty that researchers in life sciences see every day in their work.”
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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on January 23, 2016 at 9:11am
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Scientists Take Art of Weaving to Atomic, Molecular Level
Lawrence Berkeley National LaboratoryCOF-505 is the first 3D covalent organic framework to be made by weaving together helical organic threads, a fabrication technique that yields significant advantages in structural flexibility, resiliency and reversibility over previous COFs.
COF-505 is the first 3D covalent organic framework to be made by weaving together helical organic threads, a fabrication technique that yields significant advantages in structural flexibility, resiliency and reversibility over previous COFs.
There are many different ways to make nanomaterials but weaving, the oldest and most enduring method of making fabrics, has not been one of them -- until now. An international collaboration led by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) Berkeley, has woven the first three-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs) from helical organic threads. The woven COFs display significant advantages in structural flexibility, resiliency and reversibility over previous COFs -- materials that are highly prized for their potential to capture and store carbon dioxide then convert it into valuable chemical products."We have taken the art of weaving into the atomic and molecular level, giving us a powerful new way of manipulating matter with incredible precision in order to achieve unique and valuable mechanical properties," says Omar Yaghi, a chemist who holds joint appointments with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Chemistry Department.
"Weaving in chemistry has been long sought after and is unknown in biology," says Yaghi. "However, we have found a way of weaving organic threads that enables us to design and make complex two- and three-dimensional organic extended structures."
Yaghi is the corresponding author of a paper in Science reporting this new technique. The paper is titled, "Weaving of organic threads into a crystalline covalent organic framework."
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2016/01/scientists-take-art...
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ECLIPSE Coming to the Williamson Gallery in June, 2017.
August 21, 2017, is the day of the The Great American Solar Eclipse, in which the moon's shadow will cast across the United States and nowhere else on the planet. Williamson Gallery curator Stephen Nowlin is collaborating with Williams College, Massachusetts astronomer Jay Pasachoff and New York Historical Society curator of drawings Roberta J.M. Olson to explore the art, science, and cultural impact of eclipse phenomena.
More Eclipse 2017 info, at NASA .
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Visit recent Williamson Gallery's exhibitions through video vignettes.
REALSPACE exhibit, 2014-15Dan Goods' & David Delgado's
"Refraction"
"The beauty of untamed waves of light intersecting with rowdy waves of water are allowed their expressive chaos and feral subtleties."
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Read Williamson Gallery director Stephen Nowlin's recent columns for KCET's ARTBOUND:
How Art and Science Interact in Southern California
A focus on the art-science-technology track of Southern California's present creative economy.
Read it now . . .
--UNCERTAINTY
Coming to the Williamson Gallery
in October, 2016The Williamson Gallery approached scientists at Caltech and CERN Switzerland's Large Hydron Collider to capture 3-D animated sequences of subatomic particle collisions for UNCERTAINTY, an exhibition embracing ambiguity in art and science. For millennia humans have sought to discover and cling to the comforts of certainty, sometimes inventing fictitious explanations to provide clarity for an indeterminate world. However in science, uncertainty is accepted and built into its methodology. All understanding is considered provisional and certainty is only to the best of our knowledge. UNCERTAINTY will ponder its own meaning, beauty, and lingering 21st-century cultural tensions, through works drawn from the domains of both science and art.
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ECLIPSE
Coming to the Williamson Gallery
in June, 2017.August 21, 2017, is the day of the The Great American Solar Eclipse, in which the moon's shadow will cast across the United States and nowhere else on the planet. Williamson Gallery curator Stephen Nowlin is collaborating with Williams College, Massachusetts astronomer Jay Pasachoff and New York Historical Society curator of drawings Roberta J.M. Olson to explore the art, science, and cultural impact of eclipse phenomena.
More Eclipse 2017 info, at NASA .
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Williamson Redux . . .Visit recent Williamson Gallery's exhibitions through video vignettes.
REALSPACE exhibit, 2014-15Dan Goods' & David Delgado's"Refraction""The beauty of untamed waves of light intersecting with rowdy waves of water are allowed their expressive chaos and feral subtleties."
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The basis of the "European Digital Art and Science Network" is a big manifold network consisting of two scientific mentoring institutions (CERN and ESO), representing Europe's peak in scientific research, the Ars Electronica Futurelab -- providing state-of-the-art technical production possibilities in a trans disciplinary discourse, and seven European cultural partners representing strong and various European cultural- and artistic positions.
Check it out, at http://www.aec.at/artandscience
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Collaboration between the arts and sciences has the potential to create new knowledge, ideas and processes beneficial to both fields. For the past decade,the Australian Network for Art & Technology (ANAT) has provided opportunities for artists and scientists to work together.Check it out, at http://www.synapse.net.au--Simmering ArtSci . . .
Williamson Gallery director Stephen Nowlin's essay, @ Caltech: Art, Science, and Technology, 1969 - 1971, will appear this year in LEONARDO Journal. More info at MIT Press Journals."In 1969, the vision of a handful of professors at California Institute of Technology resulted in an initiative to bring artists and scientists together to "see what happens." To one young student who found his way into it, the Caltech experience became a transforming moment."
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Art meets science: The Neuron Project
http://www.channel3000.com/entertainment/Art-meets-science-The-Neur...
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University Of Houston Brain Study Explores Intersection Of Art And Science
The theory that the brain has a positive response to art is not new to science. But a researcher at the University of Houston is using a different approach to test that belief.
if someone could look into my head at this moment and see what’s going on in my brain, would they be able to see that I like what I’m looking at?Dr. Jose Luis Contreras-Vidal, (better known as “Pepe”) is in the process of finding out. The University of Houston College of Engineering professor is collecting neural data from thousands of people while they engage in creative activities, whether it’s dancing, playing music, making art, or, in my case, viewing it.
“(The hypothesis is) that there will be brain patterns associated with aesthetic preference that are recruited when you perceive art and make a judgement about art” .
http://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2016/01/20/134348/u...
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The Woman Who Made Science Beautiful with art: Maria Sibylla Merian
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/01/the-woman-who-ma...
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The Crossroads of Art and Science Residency is back at Florida Gulf Coast University for a second time. This event will be hosted by the Art Galleries of the Bower School of Music & the Arts. After a successful event last year, this year they bring in artist Michael Massaro and his exhibition “Michael Missaro: The Vanishing.”
The exhibition will be open for display in the ArtLab Gallery, which is at the west side of the Library building at Florida Gulf Coast University, Feb. 11 to March 17.
This event brings in an artist to work alongside FGCU’s science faculty which takes place at FGCU’s Vester Marine and Environmental Science Research Station. Assistant Professor James Douglas, of Marine Science, is collaborating with Michael Missaro.
http://naplesherald.com/2016/01/18/fgcu-brings-back-celebrated-art-...
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“Circus Science” performance mixes science lessons with aerial and acrobatic feats
Not every circus performance combines the art of acrobats, aerial silks, stilts and belly dancing with a litany of science factoids, but that atmosphere was prevalent Sunday afternoon, as girls and women between the ages of 6 and 66 completed feats of strength and flexibility, all while demonstrating the mysteries of how the world works.The last of two January performances of the Girl Circus’ “Circus Science” was held Sunday afternoon at the Wildish Community Theater in downtown Springfield. The performance was beyond sold out, as all 283 seats were taken and a half-dozen audience members were resigned to standing room only.
The performance pondered the very meaning of space, time, elements and matter, all to a circus-jazz-pop original composition score, the beating drum of vocalists and singers, and performances from 20 youths and seven adults.
http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/33951010-75/girls-circus-sci...
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Canberra-based visual artist Erica Seccombe has captured 'X-ray vision' of mung beans as they sprout, and the results have scientists intrigued.
As part of her project called Grow, Erica Seccombe has captured the transformation of seeds as they germinate, from embryo to first leaf stage. But unlike conventional time-lapse photography, you can actually see what's happening inside the beans as well as outside.
Ms Seccombe created these 'virtual sprouts' using state-of-the-art micro-CT scanning and data visualisation technology at the Australian National University. "I have captured the most precise possible virtual model of the seeds in the process of germination," said Ms Seccombe, who is doing the work as part of her PhD in photography and media arts."They are the truest representation of the original as possible.
"Both the interior and exterior of the virtual germinating seed can be observed simultaneously and from any angle, inside and out."As the seeds grow, their density changes and this in turn is reflected in the micro-CT scan. While her interest is in making art, the bubbles revealed inside the seeds have caught the attention of scientists.
The bubbles seen forming in the first two videos have caused quite a bit of discussion among researchers at the Australian National University's Research School of Biology."There's a couple of interesting ideas that we've had about what they could be," Professor Adrienne Nicotra said.
"It might shed light on some processes that are going on inside the seeds before the seed coat bursts." Her guess is that they are bubbles of carbon dioxide (CO2) from respiration, trapped inside the seed.
When a seed germinates it soaks up water and its metabolism kicks in, and if the seed coat is good at letting things in but not out, then the CO2 could build up inside the seed, Professor Nicotra adds. One idea is that such pressure could even help split open the seed.Another idea, put forward by biophysicist and PhD candidate, Mr Amit Singh, is the bubbles are formed by liquid converting to gas as a result of pressure building up in the seed as the embryo grows. "This phenomenon has been reported elsewhere but this would be the first instance of it being seen in seeds," Mr Singh said.
Although, he adds, the bubbles might simply be an artefact of the experiment: X-rays from the micro-CT scanning may be heating the water inside the seed, causing it to vaporise.
All agree more experiments need to be carried out to say what's happening.
"I think what's really fascinating about the images is that they're primarily art but they illustrate what might be some really interesting biological processes," Professor Nicotra said.
'This method of visualisation gives the big picture'
To produce her videos, Ms Seccombe first rotates the seeds in a 3D microcomputed X-ray tomography machine to capture various 'slices' of the seeds that are then put together to give a 3D image with 1-2 micron resolution.
Ms Seccombe said it took 45 minutes to do one 360-degree scan, which is worth $10,000 of equipment and staff time.This raw 'volumetric' data is then visualised using the open source Drishti technology, developed by Dr Ajay Limaye at Vizlab.
Although she hasn't set out to help scientists, her Drishti-generated images of sprouting seeds, and also of insects, shells and other items has led to a lot of interest from experts, including seed scientists, entomologists, biologists and mathematicians.
Ms Seccombe communicates a sense of wonder to scientists and public alike.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-01-18/x-ray-vision-shows-seeds-spro...
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