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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 September 8, 2013 at 7:01am: 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
PostNatural - SLSA 2013
The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)
Location: University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (USA)
Dates: October 3-6, 2013
The planet's poles are melting, alpine ice is in retreat, oceans are rising, island nations are disappearing, species vectors are shifting, tropical diseases are moving north, northern natures-cultures are moving into extinction. Acidification of ocean water already threatens food chains both natural and human while dead zones blossom and coral bleaches. Natural states of exception-historic wildfires, droughts, floods, "snowmageddons" and shoreline erosion-are the norm. Reality overshoots computer models of global warming even as CO2 emissions escalate faster than predicted, with no end in sight. Yet none of this has altered our way of living or our way of thinking: as Fredric Jameson noted, we can imagine the collapse of the planet more easily than the fall of capitalism.
http://litsciarts.org/slsa13/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 8, 2013 at 6:56am: ARC Research Fellow
Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland
The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies is a humanities research facility within the Faculty of Arts at the University of Queensland that commenced operation in January 2000. The objective of the Centre is to foster high quality research and to develop the research performance and culture within the Faculty of Arts. The focus of the centre's work is interdisciplinary research in the new humanities, critical and social theory, cultural studies, and media studies. The centre is currently supporting a diversity of research projects in the areas of environmental humanities, surveillance studies, media anthropology, cultural history, television studies, film studies and celebrity.
http://bit.ly/1cEVlsO
Applications close 15 September

Castaways Sculpture Awards 2014
Rockingham Foreshore
10 - 18 May 2014
Non-Acquisitive Prizes for Recycled Sculpture
http://bit.ly/X9lKW9

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 8, 2013 at 6:52am: From SymbioticA

-empyre- September Forum Discussions
Bioart: Materials, Practices, Politics
The September 2013 edition of -empyre- is concerned with opening up the conversation around bioart to include a wider audience with a more robust set of concerns.
Bioart has gained considerable attention since the mid 1990s, and this is due in large part to the proliferation of art exhibitions that have featured biotechnological themes and media, and the critical debate that has ensued over what exactly bioart is, and what its effects may be; scientific, aesthetic, political, and otherwise.
In Week 2 of the discussion Oron Catts (AU) and Richard Doyle (US) look at Ethics of the Semi-Living.
http://bit.ly/1ehpkZm

Deep Time / Deep Futures Symposium
23-24 Sept 2013
VILHO, Kuvataideakatemian seminaaritila, Sörnäisten Rantatie 27 C, Helsinki/Finland
Symposium on artistic responses to the dichotomy between human time-perception and time in biological, environmental, and geological processes, within which we are embedded. From 15th to 22nd of September 2013, a group of Finnish and international artists, scientist and practitioners met for "Field_Notes - Deep Time", an art&science field laboratory at the Kilpisjärvi Biological Station in Lapland, organized by the Finnish Society of Bioart. Composed in work groups, think tanks, and workshops they carried out basic interdisciplinary research and field work with specific topics concerning Deep Time and Deep Futures. In the symposium the five work groups will present and discuss their preliminary findings from the working week.
Featuring contributors Tarsh Bates (SymbioticA PhD student) Oron Catts, Perdita Phillips & Kira O'Reilly (former SymbioticA resident Artists).
http://bit.ly/19kkPcS

The Cell in Art and Science
Speakers: Prof. Gordana Vunjak-Novakovic (Biomedical Engineering) in conversation with Oron Catts (Director of SymboticA)
When: Monday, September 30 - 7:30pm
Where: 501 Northwest Corner Building, Columbia University (NYC)
CUriosity3 is a public seminar program addressing the intersection between Arts and Science with a view to start interesting discussions and debate around the common ground of creative practice and scientific discovery.
http://columbiascience.tumblr.com/tagged/Curiosity3

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 7, 2013 at 6:16am: http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/09/illusion-science-gallery/
Nothing is as it Seems: The Art of Illusion at Science Gallery
Some of most amazing contemporary artists working in the realm of optical illusion have been brought together for a fantastic show called Illusion at Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland. Curated by psychologist and author Richard Wiseman and researched by magician and escapologist (!) Paul Gleeson, the exhibition explores the myriad ways the mind is tricked through sensory deception. The show includes works from Roseline de Thelin, Gregory Barsamian, Matt Kenyon, Jonty Hurwitz (previously), and many more. Illusion runs through September 29, 2013.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 7, 2013 at 6:14am: http://www.dailypilot.com/news/tn-dpt-et-0906-loh-down-on-science-r...
Science communication through art
This isn't tomfoolery — each question is rooted in the scientific world and answered by Sandra Tsing Loh on 89.3 KPCC every weekday. Early birds tune in at 5:49 a.m. to hear the five-time author sprinkle facts with fun in her 90-second segment, "The Loh Down on Science." The show's website describes the moniker as a fusion of LOL (laugh out loud) and OH (aha!).

The Pasadena resident recently teamed up with UC Irvine as an adjunct professor of visual art. Her two classes include "Science Communication Skills," a graduate-level course for science majors, and "The Mirror, the Lamp and the I-Phone: Art and Aesthetics." Also, UCI has proffered administrative and financial help for the syndicated radio show, Loh said.

Loh combines what could be considered right- and left-brain specialties. She earned a bachelor's degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology and a master's as part of the Professional Writing Program at the University of Southern California.
My mantra is that artists are always scientists even if the reverse isn't always true," he said. "Writing is a very big aspect of what we do in the arts. Artists need to be able to write well, explain to people what they're doing and also create proposals

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 7, 2013 at 5:37am: https://plus.google.com/events/cbh3ajn5huieldh91gh1tgopb5s
http://humanitiesinsights.wordpress.com/

Part 2 of 3 in an NEH Google Hangout series on #STEMandHumanities.

The Hangout participants will explain the STEM-to-STEAM movement and how NEH, NEA, and IMLS projects reflect the charge to integrate

See the below for general updates on themes related to the insterection of art and science and the National Endowment for the Arts. If you would like to be added or removed from this distribution list, please email artandscience@arts.gov. As a reminder, we encourage art and science project applications in our Art Works deadline. Our next deadline will be in March of 2014 and guidelines will be posted here soon after the new year.

From Thomas Edison to Steve Jobs: Innovation from the Arts, Humanities and STEM

The NEH will host a Google Hangout On Air on Tuesday, September 10th, 2013 from 2:00 to 2:30 PM
Eastern Time. The Hangout will will discuss the STEAM movement and how National Endowment for the Humanities, National Endowment for the Arts, and Institute for Museum and Library Services projects reflect the charge to integrate the arts and STEM. Participants include STEAM Caucus Co-Chairs Aaron Schock and Suzanne Bonamici, Perry Collins from NEH, Bill O'Brien from NEA and RISD President John Maeda. The NEH will host another webinar on the humanities and STEM on September 23. Watch the webinars live here.

The National Endowment for the Arts announces availability of research grant guidelines

Guidelines webinar scheduled for September 18, 2013

Washington, DC--The National Endowment for the Arts' Office of Research & Analysis announces that application guidelines are available for funding through Research: Art Works. This program supports research for projects seeking to use novel research questions and/or techniques to analyze high-quality datasets containing arts variables. To guide potential applicants through the requirements and application process, the NEA will hold a guidelines webinar on September 18, 2013 at 3:00 PM ET. The NEA encourages applications from diverse research fields (e.g., sociology, economics, anthropology, psychology, medicine and health, education, communications, and urban and regional planning) in addition to projects that address topics concerning the value and/or impact of the arts.

The NEA anticipates awarding up to 25 grants in the range of $10,000 to $30,000. The deadline for application submission is November 5, 2013 for projects that can begin as early as May 1, 2014. For grant application information and guidelines, click here

National Endowment for the Arts: Industrial Designers Play a Critical Role in Manufacturing, Technology, and Innovation

Industrial designers develop the concepts for manufactured products such as cars, home and electronic appliances, sporting goods, toys, and more. Working in a range of industries, industrial designers combine art, business, and engineering to make products and improve systems that people use every day. In recent years, they have also helped design user experiences and systems in a process known as "design thinking." For example, industrial designers have worked on teams to improve the way patients and staff interact in the emergency room. Valuing the Art of Industrial Design uses fresh statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. Census Bureau, and the United States Patent and Trademark Office to describe the industrial designer workforce, the sectors that hire them, where industrial designers work, what they and their firms earn, and what kinds of product innovations they make.

Ovation Announces innOVATION Awards Grants

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 6, 2013 at 6:03am: http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=93855
Encompassing more of an international artistic scope is the exhibit “Imag(in)ing Science,” which features collaborative pieces between IU faculty in the arts and science departments.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 6, 2013 at 6:00am: http://exclaim.ca/Reviews/TIFF/tims_vermeer-directed_by_teller
A natural fit for his joke-y brand of demystifying the incredible, one half of the bane of the stage magicians' community, Penn and Teller, documents the attempt of his good friend, Tim Jenison, to replicate the style of famous Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer.

The catch: Tim isn't a painter whatsoever. What he is, is a scientist. As an expert in the field of optics, Tim, partially inspired by the work of two art historians, thinks he's just about cracked the technological innovation he's certain Vermeer used to achieve the uncanny luminescence of his paintings.

Starting from the idea that Vermeer used some sort of camera obscura or at least a lens, the prodigiously clever, indomitable-to-the-point-of-insanity scientist goes about experimenting and attempting to recreate the conditions the original artist would have been working under as accurately as possible.

This zealous pursuit for optimum authenticity leads Tim to learn Dutch, woodworking, how to make paint from scratch and dozens of other skills the average person wouldn't acquire without monetary incentive. As much as this is an obsessive, serious study on the work of Vermeer and how inextricable art and science have been historically linked, Teller knows that his long-time buddy is a fascinating enough character to carry a documentary on his own.

Understanding his subject's sense of humour as only a close friend can, and being a person that makes his living on comedic timing, Teller uses abrupt editing and Tim's witty asides to set up laughs throughout the picture. Clipping along at a brisk pace, as the experiment yields promising results, the film loses some momentum once the process of actually recreating Vermeer's "The Music Lesson" begins.

Enraptured by his friend's extraordinary effort, Teller spends a bit too much time lingering on sessions of countless tiny brush strokes. Augmenting the project's practical thesis, Teller, who serves as narrator and makes the occasional appearance in front of the camera, considers the illusory divide between art and science, using Tim's thoughts to illustrate, along with many historical examples of the two disciplines working in concert, intentionally avoiding any talk of Da Vinci.

It's a logical complementary topic to examine while deconstructing a modern meeting of the forms. Tim's Vermeer isn't especially vital, but it's certainly entertaining.
(Sony)
By Scott A. Gray

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 6, 2013 at 5:59am: http://helenair.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/dancing-with-helena-s...

An astronaught's encounter with dance and his reflections on science-art

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on September 6, 2013 at 5:51am: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/otleynews/10651379...

Science the inspiration for artwork
Artworks inspired by contemporary science and micro-imaging will go on display in Otley this weekend.

Greg Townend’s exhibition at the Bono Art Gallery, on Courthouse Street, opens from 6pm to 9pm on Saturday and will run until October 3.

Entitled Sum Over Histories, the exhibition, according to the artist, takes its cue from “a world of elaborate structure without a plan”