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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 December 3, 2013 at 6:51am: MODEL & METAPHOR: NEWCASTLE, AUSTRALIA
2012 Synapse Residency recipient Nola Farman has organized Model & Metaphor, two events over two days comprised of a lecture and a symposium exploring the question: Has, does and can science emerge from art? The lecture, entitled ?Public ?Disruptive?? will take place Monday, 9 December and will feature Jill Scott, addressing the audience on re-composing art and science, and Margaret Wertheim, discussing how artists paved the way for physicists at the dawn of the scientific revolution. The symposium will serve to challenge the general paradigm that assumes a clear distinction between art and science and between artists and scientists. Presenters will include Jill Scott, Margaret Wertheim, Richard Vella, Doug Kahn, Natalie O?Connor, Ren?e Beale, Oron Cats and Stelarc.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 3, 2013 at 6:50am: CALL FOR APPLICTIONS: NEW MEDIA ARTS MFA, UNT
The New Media Art MFA program at the University of Northern Texas offers a unique blend of emerging transdisciplinary creative research with studio and art history disciplines. The program fosters critical thinking and innovative approaches to contemporary art-making, theory, social engagement and interdisciplinary research. Throughout the 3-year program, students engage in a wide variety of advanced technology-based practices, including interactive installation, electronic objects and interfaces, moving images, 3D modeling and animation, gaming, tactical media, bio-art, performance, rapid prototyping, data visualization and sonification, sound design, and other emergent art forms. NMA @ UNT offers students an internationally recognized faculty, teaching/research assistantships, access to the xREZ Art-Science lab, the physical computing and robotics lab, the digital print lab and shoot room, the UNT Center for Experimental Music and Innovation, as well as a fully outfitted f!
abrication shop and digital fabrication lab, six galleries for student exhibitions, the UNT System Gallery Showcase in downtown Dallas, an extensive public arts program and an active visiting artist/critic program. Deadline to apply: 5 January 2014.

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: ART/SCI RESEARCH SOFTWARE DEVELOPER
The University of Northern Texas xREZ ArtScience lab is seeking to hire a research software developer and technologist to join the art-science lab research team. This position centers on supporting interdisciplinary research projects through collaboratively specifying, building and deploying applications with faculty and students across the arts, sciences, engineering and humanities. The applications are highly heterogeneous, spanning desktop, mobile, web, cloud and data centers, and site-specific applications (tiled displays, computer vision, etc.). Technical direction, system specification and recommendation, documentation, and software development all are skills used daily.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 3, 2013 at 6:49am: From leonardo:
NEXT UC DAVIS LASER: 2 DECEMBER
The next UC DAVIS LASER event will take place Monday, 2 December, 6:30?8:30 p.m. in the Plant and Environmental Science building on the UC Davis campus. Presenters will include Distinguished Professor of Evolution and Ecology at UC Davis, Art Shapiro; artist and founder of San Francisco-based art collective Futurefarmers, Amy Franceschini; interdisciplinary artist Mary Anne Kluth; and Director of Conservation Science for the National Audubon Society, Justin Schuetz. The program will also include time for audience members currently working within the intersections of art and science to share their work.
NEXT UCLA LASER: 5 DECEMBER
Join us at the UCLA Art | Sci Center for the final UCLA LASER of the year on Thursday, 5 December, 7--9 p.m. This LASER will be preceded by the opening of What Comes to Mind, an exhibition of Joyce Cutler-Shaw's current project that explores the human life cycle, the structure of the human body, the brain and the complex phenomenon of memory. Joyce Cutler-Shaw will also be presenting at the LASER event, along with UCLA psychology professor Robert Bilder; media artist Dustin O'Hara; Founding Executive Director of the Arts and Healing Initiative at UCLA, Ping Ho; artist and art director David Familian; media artist and visiting Art | Sci scholar Clarissa Ribiero; and psychologist and art therapist Hanna Chusid.

NEXT UC BERKELEY LASER: 11 DECEMBER
The next UC Berkeley LASER event will take place Wednesday, 11 December, 6 p.m. Presenters will include Executive Director of the Center for Genetics and Society Marcy Darnovsky on ?The Case for a New Biopolitics?; founder of Ideami Studios Javier Ideami on ?Instant Filmmaking: DIY Technology for Visual Storytelling?; leader of the Adobe Creative Technologies Lab David Salesin on ?How Research Works?; and planetary scientist with the Space Science Division of NASA Ames Chris McKay on ?The Curiosity Mars Mission.? Find out more

NEXT STANFORD LASER, 12 DECEMBER
Join us for the next Stanford Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER), 12 December 2013, at Stanford University, featuring Uwe Bergmann (Stanford) on "The Science and Applications of X-Rays," Ellen Fullman (musician) on "A Compositional Approach Derived from Material and Ephemeral Elements," Alison Gopnik (UC Berkeley) on "The Philosophical Baby" and David Stork (Rambus Labs) on "Computer Image Analysis of Parmigianino's Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror."

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 2, 2013 at 9:29am: http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/carola-binney/2013/12/science-versus-a...
Science versus Arts – which degree is harder? (what a dumb Q?!)

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 2, 2013 at 6:55am: http://water-wheel.net/resource_files/3wds14-call.pdf#!
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium 2014 - 3WDS14
“Water Views: Caring and Daring”
17- 22 March 2014
Following last year’s success, this 3rd online edition of Waterwheel World Water Day Symposium - 3WDS14 will be
hosted during the week leading up to and concluding on World Water Day, 22 March 2014.
Scientists, academics, artists, architects, urbanists, engineers, practitioners, activists, inventors and water drinkers
are invited to submit projects and papers (25-minute presentations), performances (up to 20 minutes), panels and
workshops (3 hours maximum and panels must include at least 45 minutes of discussion), on the theme “Water
Views: Caring and Daring”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 2, 2013 at 6:51am: http://huutaart.com/index.php?Itemid=107&q=b3B0aW9uPWNvbV9zMmcm...!
Occam's Razor: Art, Science, & Aesthetics
Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts

Call for works of Art inspired by Science

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
- Pablo Picasso
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

These entwined ideas – which underlie Occam's Razor – form a thread that links the realms of science and art. Scientists rely on Occam's Razor, which holds that simpler explanations, all things being equal, are better than more complex ones, to refine their theories and experiments. Artists also may use the precepts of Occam's Razor in their choices of what to include, and what not to include, in their work.

As an artist, how do you respond to the ideas, methodologies and imagery of science? As a scientist, how do you appreciate the artistic value of your work? How does simplicity inspire your aesthetic choices? Do you wield Occam's Razor, peeling away the unnecessary to arrive at beauty and simplicity? Does simplicity equate with beauty?

Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts (PCVA) and the !dea Gallery at the Ontario Science Centre are calling for works of art inspired by science, for a group exhibition that examines similarities in practice amongst scientists and artists. With reference to Occam's Razor, the exhibition will seek to narrow the cultural divide between Art and Science.

Work selected will be shown at Propeller Centre for the Visual Arts from April 2-20, 2014, as well as at the !dea Gallery, Ontario Science Centre, May 3-June 1, 2014. (!dea Gallery showing may be modified based on space requirements).

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on December 1, 2013 at 8:50am: http://www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/art/from-rags-to-artworks/a...
Eco-science: From rags to artworks - the artist has explored the nexus of art and science and how the creative process can illuminate waste products as an art.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 30, 2013 at 8:36am: Call for Submissions
Subtle Technologies presents
Open Culture:
Participatory Practices in Art & Science
16-25 May 2014, Toronto
In May 2014, Subtle Technologies will be holding its 17th annual festival in Toronto. Their symposium, performances, workshops, screenings, exhibitions and networking sessions provide a forum to explore ideas and pose questions at the intersection of art, science and technology. Subtle Technologies is known internationally for presenting artists and scientists whose work is at the leading edge of their respective disciplines and creating a space for dialogue that leads to future discussions and collaborations.

The theme for 2014 is “Open Culture”. The festival will celebrate the ways artists and scientists are creating and making use of tools and techniques to harness the collective power, knowledge and creativity of the citizen. Bringing together artists and scientists who are working in these domains will open streams of dialogue leading to increased collaboration between artists and scientists who are interested in contributions of an engaged public. They are currently accepting submissions by artists, curators and scientists on the ideas presented below as well as others that fall under the umbrella of participatory culture.
This time they would like to explore citizen science and open science. They welcome submissions that explore the role of citizen science, benefits, pitfalls, mechanisms, philosophy and ethics surrounding non-scientists involved in scientific research. This concept suggests that scientists share their data as quickly as possible, allowing others to benefit from and make use of their research. “Open notebook science” implies the dissemination of both raw and processed scientific data as it is captured. They would like to invite practitioners, advocates and critics of open science to contribute submissions to our festival.
The festival will also explore the ways artists invoke participatory culture in the creation of tools and artworks. Media artists have fully engaged in the networked world and are making use of mobile networks and ubiquitous computing in their artworks. These technologies allow for real time interaction and data collection.
For more details click on the link:
http://subtletechnologies.com/festival/call-for-submissions/
For any questions, please contact Fanny Martin, General Manager, at fanny @ subtletechnologies.com.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 30, 2013 at 8:24am: http://www.caradvice.com.au/262516/photographer-captures-exploding-...
Science-art: Photographer captures ‘exploding, hatching’ cars
A Swiss photographer renowned for combining art and science has created a series of images capturing cars seemingly exploding and hatching.

On display at the MB&F MAD (Mechanical Art Devices) Gallery in Geneva, Fabien Oefner’s ‘Disintegrating’ and ‘Hatch’ series of images includes classic cars such as the 1954 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe, 1961 Jaguar E-Type, 1967 Ferrari 330 P4 and 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO.

Intended to look as if a specific moment in time has been captured on film, for the ‘Disintegrating’ series, Oefner blended hundreds of real photographs of a completely dismantled scale model car positioned piece by piece with fine needles and string to give the impression of it exploding.