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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 November 9, 2013 at 7:13am: http://blog.al.com/breaking/2013/11/unesco_honors_artist_for_sculp....
UNESCO honors artist for sculpture that captures Huntsville's space history
A Seattle-based artist was honored this morning with an UNESCO award for "Inspiring Peace and Humanity through Art & Science" for a sculpture he created to capture Huntsville's involvement in space exploration. Ulrich Pakker received the award in a ceremony at the Redstone Gateway office park development, where the sculpture "Breaking Earth's Bond" is located.

"It's a beautiful art form and represents the collective science and technical minds that create the future," Dr. Sheree Wen, a U.S. National Commissioner for UNESCO, said after the awards ceremony. UNESCO is short for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 9, 2013 at 7:05am: http://www.newtimesslo.com/art/10226/science-after-dark-presents-sa...
The Science After Dark presentation will outline what the experts have achieved in the past decade, as well as the plans for the sarcophagus’s future. The dedicated team has determined, for example, the exact Greek quarry from which the original sarcophagus hails. Since this marble object was painted, Dr. Jones was able to determine the pigments using detailed chemical analysis of flecks of the original paint. For two years, the team studied the weather around the sarcophagus to understand the weathering that impacted the object. Finally, they moved the stone into the conservation site, where Barov and Faber worked their magic. As the two are internationally renowned conservationists who previously worked at the Getty Museum, the sarcophagus was in safe hands. They created an entirely new back out of synthetic materials; poly foam was used to mimic the original surface of the marble. The new back is lighter and will stand up to weathering better than did the original marble. The team is now working with engineers at Cal Poly to attach the back.

The presentation—happening Nov. 13 at 6 p.m. at the Steynberg Gallery, 1531 Monterey St.—will feature pictures and samples and will outline the meticulous process of restoring the sarcophagus. A $5 cover charge supports CCSTEM. For more information on CCSTEM and Science After Dark, visit ccstem.org or facebook.com/ScienceAfterDarkSLO.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 9, 2013 at 7:03am: http://www.7x7.com/arts-culture/art-and-science-mingle-next-nightlife
Art and Science Mingle at the Next NightLife!
Next week, the highly talented people from the California College of the Arts present NightLife at the Academy of Sciences dedicated to the convergence of science and art.

Delve into over a dozen industrial, interaction, illustration, fashion, furniture and graphic designers from CCA as they showcase a transformative portfolio of work that highlights new technologies and innovative ideas that explore the concept of metamorphosis.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 8, 2013 at 6:52am: http://artradarjournal.com/2013/11/01/science-technology-and-visual...
Science, technology and visual art: Artists in a hybrid world
A Taiwanese exhibition features art forged in the spaces where art and science converge.

“TEA/Super Connect–2013 International Techno Art Exhibition”, which showed at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (NTMoFA) from 10 August to 27 October 2013, brought together work by artists that explore the fields of biology, medicine, computer science and robotics.
For the 2013 exhibition, Curator Shu-Min Lin selected art that reflects on identity, culture and interspecies relationships in today’s “super connected” global society. The 26 international and local artists in “TEA/Super Connect” make work using everything from organ transplant technology to computer algorithms, pig hearts to video games and homeless robots to cult movies. ”A diversity of new relations are formed through the recombination of the three basic components: digit, gene and atom,” Lin says in his curatorial statement. “The backbone of the exhibition, digital media art, itself embodies a super connection between art and science, and a convergence of various expressive modes and specific demands to integrate knowledge and expertise.”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 7, 2013 at 8:24am: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/06/larissa-sansour_n_4221142....
Exploring The Fate Of The Palestinian Territories With Science Fiction

"Space Exodus," one of of two video projects on view, the artist ventures to the moon as an astronaut, planting the Palestinian flag on the lunar surface. The victorious moment is brief, as Sansour is quickly unable to get in touch with her command station in Jerusalem to convey the news. "Jerusalem, we have a problem," she utters. A hopeful moment clashes with the realization that relations between Israel and the Palestine territories are still dismal, even in this parallel universe where a Palestinian astronaut conquers the moon.

"Read in a direct way, it's about saying it's easier to reach the moon than reach Jerusalem,

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 7, 2013 at 8:21am: Life, in Theory
The 8th Meeting of the European Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts June 3-6, 2014 Turin, Italy The VIII European Meeting of the Society for the Study of Literature, Science, and the Arts aims to continue the conversation between science and the humanities on the implications for our projected futures of the manipulation, administration, and governance of life forms. The concept of life today no longer provides sufficient ontological ground to distinguish among different forms of life and to guide ethical, political, legal, or medical actions. Thus, a discussion across disciplinary forms of knowledge and theories of life, and the practices they authorize, is literally to confront issues of life and death.
http://litsciarts.eu/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 7, 2013 at 8:20am: Collaborative Art + Bio Workshop
ISLAND LIFE: Tropical Field Studies of Art+Nature in Puerto Rico Dates of travel: January 10-17, 2014 Escape the cold winter to the Caribbean in this one-of-a-kind, art+nature immersion experience in Puerto Rico! Join us for an artistic exploration of the diverse tropical wildlife from rainforest, mountain, beach and coastal environments. Through hands-on observation, artistic interpretation and various biological methods, we will learn to utilize the natural habitat as a studio/lab to make informed art about tropical plants, animals, and nature.
http://www.artbiocollaborative.com/island-life

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 7, 2013 at 8:20am: WORKSHOP: EXPLORING COLLABORATION & INTERDISCIPLINARITY Friday 22 November until Saturday 30 November Wellington Forest, Western Australia This residential workshop tackles the rather broad topic of collaboration, particularly collaboration between people not from the same disciplines. The facilitator, Michelle Outram, is skilled in shaping emergent group processes and will propose a framework for the week which will be discussed and modified by the group throughout the workshop (or discarded altogether). This framework includes learning about each other through each of us developing and facilitating a workshop followed by a feedback session. This enables a reflexive understanding of each other's work and processes.
For further information: http://www.michelleoutram.com/western-australia-2013.html

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 7, 2013 at 8:19am: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
Cloud and Molecular Aesthetics
Istanbul June 26-28 2014
The Third Transdisciplinary Imaging Conference at the intersections of art, science and culture seeks papers that explore the theme of the cloud and molecular aesthetics. Clouding occurs when information becomes veiled, foggy, fuzzy, obscure or secretive, or when it condenses, blooms and accretes into atmospheres of chaotic turbulence and pressure vectors, into tidal flows and storms. The cloud also is a new formation of data as a global and seemingly immaterial distribution of storage and means of retrieval. This data cloud exists everywhere and yet is nowhere in particular. As with the protocols of bit torrent files, the cloud provides a new concept of sound and image "assembly", distinct from and beyond the materialist machinic diagrams and the practices of re-mixing or remediation that became characteristic of late twentieth-century and millennial aesthetics. The cloud is not an object but an experience and its particles are the very building blocks of a molecular aesthetic in which we live and act.
http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/tiic/
Deadline for abstracts is Dec 14th 2013

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on November 7, 2013 at 8:18am: Field Notes - Report From Deep Time
Date: 22 November 2013
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speakers: Tarsh Bates, Oron Catts, Perdita Phillips

Field_Notes - Deep Time is a weeklong art and science field laboratory organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland/Finland. Five working groups, hosted by Oron Catts, Antero Kare, Leena Valkeapaa, Tere Vaden, Elisabeth Ellsworth and Jamie Kruse, together with a team of five, came together in 2013 test and evaluate specific interdisciplinary approaches in relation to the Deep Time theme. Field_Notes - Deep Time is in search of artistic and scientific responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and comprehension, and the time of biological, environmental, and geological processes in which we are embedded. The local sub-Arctic nature, ecology, and geology, as well as the scientific environment and infrastructure of the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station act as a catalyst for the work carried out. Catts together with participants Tarsh Bates and Perdita Phillips will share some of their insights into this trip.

Tarsh Bates is currently a candidate for a PhD (Biological Arts) at SymbioticA where her current research is concerned with gentleness, the aesthetics of interspecies relationships and the human as a multispecies ecology. She is particularly enamoured with Candida albicans.

Dr Perdita Phillips is a Western Australian contemporary artist interested in ecosystemic thinking and our interactions with non-human worlds. Phillips is a former SymbioticA resident researcher.

Oron Catts is an artist, researcher and curator and is the Director of SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia.