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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 October 30, 2013 at 7:25am: http://www.manchesterconfidential.co.uk/Culture/Brace-Yourself-For-...
OCTOBER 24 marked the return of the Manchester Science Festival, hosted by the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) in partnership with Siemens. The event hopes to discard the stereotype of science being a boring, stuffy subject reserved for slightly manic chemistry teachers. This annual festival, now in its seventh year, is a celebration of the sciences with the help of resident experts, innovative artists and the everyday people of Greater Manchester.

This year’s standout exhibition is an intriguing concoction of art and science aptly named Synthesis which is being held at Victoria Warehouse.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 30, 2013 at 7:24am: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/compound-eye/2013/10/28/in-whic...
In which Matt Shipman interviews me about the science photography business
many American science artists fall into the hole of not being quite poor enough to take advantage of the savings in the exchanges, but not being quite rich enough to afford health insurance comparable to what they’d get working for a large employer. The result is that our dysfunctional healthcare system serves as a disincentive to starting a small science art business. The current system disadvantages new artists beyond the usual barriers of breaking into a field

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 30, 2013 at 7:21am: http://cw.ua.edu/2013/10/28/art-science-become-intertwined-in-woods...
Art, science become intertwined in Woods Quad sculpture

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 29, 2013 at 6:43am: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/10/27/hire-a-sc...
So You Want to Hire a Science Illustrator

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 28, 2013 at 8:05am: http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv/2259835-12/left-brains-fuse-with-ri...

Left brains fuse with right brains at Virginia Tech

The new Institute for Creativity, Arts and Technology embodies what the university has always been good at: applied science.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 28, 2013 at 7:24am: SCHEDULE:
Thursday November 7: Public Event: An Evening with Andrea Polli
6:30 p.m. Conversations with Andrea Polli
Shuttle-bus tours to view Particle Falls at the Wilma Theater

Friday November 8:
9AM ? 9:30 Christy Schneider & Elizabeth McDonnell Curating Sensing Change: Gallery Tour
Jody Roberts Sensing Change in Context at the Chemical Heritage Foundation & the Center for Contemporary History and Policy
9:30 ? 10:15 ?Model Climates?
Dehlia Hannah, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
10:15 ? 11AM ?The Productive Value of Contemplative Work?
Edward Morris (& Susannah Sayler), The Canary Project

11: 15 ? 12PM ?Futurescape City Tours: Incorporating the Temporal, Sensory and Material in Public Engagement with Nanotechnology?
Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone, The Center for Nanotechnology and Society, Arizona State University

2PM ? 2:45 ?Do Artistic Images Affect the Willingness to Buy Carbon Offsets? An Empirical Study?
Robert W. Turner, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Colgate University
2:45 ? 3:30 Artist?s Talk: ?The "What's that?" and the "What if?" Visual Research, Map Rhetoric and Creative Practices?
Roderick Coover, Associate Professor in the Department of Film and Media Arts, Temple University

3:45 ? 4:30 ?Adaptations of Bioart for Climate Change?
Hannah Star Rogers, Science and Technology Studies, University of Virginia
4:30 ? 5:15 Diane Burko Artist?s Talk: ?Polar Investigations?
5:30 ? 7PM Keynote: ?Seeing Global Warming?
Finis Dunaway, Professor of History, Trent University

Saturday November 9:
9 AM ?
9:30 ? 10:15 ?Artificial clouds?
Jim Fleming, Professor of Science, Technology, and Society, Colby College
10:15 ? 11AM ?Red Futures. Making Climate Change imaginable through Expert Graphs?
Birgit Schneider, Philosophische Fakult?t Institut f?r K?nste und Medien, Universit?t Potsdam

11: 15 ? 12PM ?Invisible to Visible: Revealing the Climate Change through Heat?
Sabrina McCormick, Professor of Sociology, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University
2:45 TBA
Anne Sophie Witzke, Department of Aesthetics and Communication - Information Science, Aarhus University
2:45 ? 3:30 ?Art & the Anthropocene: Aesthetics After Nature?
Rory Rowan, Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London
3:30 ? 4PM Closing Discussion
For additional information please visit: http://dehliahannah.com/events/106-2/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 28, 2013 at 7:22am: From SEAD:
Dehlia
Sensing Change: Mapping the Climatic Imaginary through Art, Science and History, November 7-9, 2013?
Center for Contemporary History and Policy, Chemical Heritage Foundation, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,USA
In conjunction with the CHF Museum?s art exhibition Sensing Change, on view July 1, 2013-May 2, 2014, this conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars to explore the social, historical and philosophical implications of contemporary art that addresses climate change. Changes in the global climate unfold over temporal and geographical scales that are beyond the scope of the individual human senses or the isolated observer to perceive. Our understanding of these changes is mediated by predictive models and simulations based on data collected via global networks of scientific instruments, yet the processes registered by this network are directly accessible only in the form of local effects. Sensing climate change, therefore, begins with developing a heightened awareness of one?s local environment, the rhythms of life of its flora and fauna, its weather patterns, water levels, and air quality.
Sensing Change showcases the work of nine contemporary artists?Vaughn Bell, Diane Burko, Roderick Coover, Katie Holton, Stacey Levy, Eve Mosher, Andrea Polli, Fernanda Vi?gas and Martin Wattenberg?and draws upon the CHF?s resources as an institution of historical scholarship, its archival collection of scientific instruments, oral history program, and active program of public engagement in science to mobilize art and science into the service of sensing and reflecting on the implications of climate change for the Philadelphia area. Sensing Change therefore offers a unique opportunity to explore how what we may call the climatic imaginary has been articulated through contemporary and historical art and science as well as to consider the role of art exhibitions in provoking public discourse about climate change and other scientific matters of concern.
The aim of the conference is to foster an intensive cross-disciplinary conversation about the role of the arts in articulating the science and social implications of climate change. A limited number of spaces are available for audience participants, who are encouraged to contribute to post-presentation discussions. Breakfast, lunch and coffee will be provided for all participants. To attend please RSVP to Dehlia Hannah at dhannah@chemheritage.org AND Rebecca Ortenberg at rortenberg@chemheritage.org
Conference Website: http://dehliahannah.com/events/106-2/
Exhibition Website: http://sensingchange.chemheritage.org/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 28, 2013 at 7:14am: https://www.facebook.com/events/258417584305772/?goback=.gde_163672...!
Join us at Summerhall for some fascinating talks as we hear about the wealth of scientific archives available to artists and how successful collaborations can lead to inspiring new art.

‘Towards Dolly: Edinburgh, Roslin and the Birth of Modern
Genetics’ is based within Edinburgh University Library’s
Centre for Research Collections and is generously funded by the Wellcome Trust’s Research Resources in Medical History grants scheme.

The project archivist, Clare Button, and rare books cataloguer, Kristy Davis are cataloguing the archival records of the Roslin Institute, the Institute of Animal Genetics, the papers of James Cossar Ewart and Conrad Hal Waddington, glass plate slides, rare books and scientific offprints. This talk is an introduction to the wealth of materials in this collection followed by a talk by Dr. Mhairi Towler and Dr. Paul Harrison of Duncan Jordanstone in Dundee on their artwork based upon the C.H. Waddington collection. Talks by:

Dr. Paul Harrison and Dr. Mhairi Towler will present aspects of their work in progress: ‘Epigenetic Landscapes’ This research explores and celebrates the ideas of developmental biologist, philosopher and visual thinker, C.H. Waddington.

“Dig down to nothing and come up with everything”
- Waddington 1957.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on October 26, 2013 at 11:41am: http://www.nanotech-now.com/news.cgi?story_id=48389
n art exhibit at Chicago's Midway Airport features images created by using microscopy equipment by ZEISS. Researchers from the Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB) Core Facilities, affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, used state-of-the-art microscopes for pioneering research to capture images that address significant problems facing humanity related to health, agriculture, energy and the environment. Twelve different images from IGB's innovative research have been turned into pieces of artwork that travelers can view while using the airport. Five of the images in the exhibit were produced using ZEISS equipment.
ZEISS Microscopes used to create images for Art Exhibit at Midway Airport: Art of Science: Images from the Institute for Genomic Biology