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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 July 2, 2013 at 5:31am: From Leonardo:

EVOLUTIONARY SYSTEMS GROUP
Evolutionary Systems Group (ESG), directed by Pier Augusto Bertacchini, Eleonora Bilotta and Pietro Pantano, is an interdisciplinary group of professors and researchers operating in a broad scientific area characterized by interdisciplinarity. The group operates at the University of Calabria (Italy) and aims at promoting scientific exchange and high formation through the Doctoral School "Archimede" in Science, Communication and Technologies; a Ph.D. course in "Psychology of Programming and Artificial Intelligence"; a Laboratory of Psychology; a strong relationship with other Ph.D. courses held at national and international universities; and international projects in collaboration with other universities and research. ESG research is theoretical and applied, covering various fields, including digital edutainment and science communication, scientific visualization and digital art, evolutionary and generative music, mathematical modeling of natural and artificial behavior and c ultural heritage and educational technologies.

The 19th International Congress of Aesthetics will be held in Krakow, Poland, 21?27 July 2013. Over 800 participants from 53 countries will come together to discuss relevant topics in aesthetics,art, science and technology. The program includes two bioart panels covering the topics of aesthetics and ontology in current bio art practices, chaired by Dr. Ingeborg Reichle of Humboldt University of Berlin, and the aesthetics and politics of biotechnological art, chaired by Dr. Polona Tratnik of the University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: SMART ART CONTEST 2013
The Science & Math-based Art Contest is calling on artists around the world to submit artwork that creatively demonstrates a scientific or mathematical concept, principle or phenomena through artistic media of their choosing including digital, drawing, photography, sculpture, performance, painting, fiber arts, etc. Deadline to submit: 10 August 2013

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 2, 2013 at 5:23am: From Leonardo:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: ART-SCIENCE-TECHNOLOGY M.A. AND PH.D. ABSTRACTS
Students who will be receiving an M.A., M.F.A. or Ph.D. on a subject related to the intersection of art, science and technology are encouraged to submit an abstract of their thesis to LABS (Leonardo Abstract Services). This peer-reviewed database has been in existence for over 10 years and functions as a way for international artists and scholars to learn about the work of the next generation.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 2, 2013 at 5:22am: From Leonardo:
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: THE ART/SCIENCE CURRICULUM IN THE CLASSROOM AND IN THE CLOUD
In conjunction with the College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference, to be held 12-15 February 2014 in Chicago, LEAF (Leonardo Education and Art Forum) will present a panel titled "The Art/Science Curriculum in the Classroom and in the Cloud." If you have developed or participated in instruction bringing together art and science, this panel will provide an opportunity to share your experiences. Please submit an abstract (up to 200 words) to Adrienne Klein, aklein@gc.cuny.edu. Include a brief biographical statement with mailing address, email address, and phone and fax numbers. Please include a cover note explaining your interest and expertise in the topic. Proposal deadline: 20 July 2013. Selected proposals will be acknowledged by 31 August 2010
NEXT SAN FRANCISCO LASER: 8 JULY 2013
The next Bay Area LASER will take place Monday, 8 July 2013, 6:45?9p.m. at the University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton St, Fromm Hall - FR 115 - Berman Room, SF, CA. The program includes presentations by shadow artist Christine Marie, musician Sarah Cahill, Research Professor of Biomolecular Engineering at UC Santa Cruz Dave Deamer and Adrian David Cheok of the Mixed Reality Lab, Singapore.
NEXT NYC LASER: 16 JULY 2013
The next NYC LASER will take place Tuesday, 16 July 2013, 6:30-9 p.m. at LevyArts, 40 E 19th St #3-R., NY, NY. The featured speaker will be artist Cynthia Beth Rubin, followed by brief presentations by artist and environmentalist Mara Haseltine, curator Xiaoying Juliette Yuan, curator Amy Lipton and former LEAF Chair Ellen Levy, reporting on art that addresses science at the current Venice Biennale. Space is limited; to reserve your place, send an email to Ellen Levy at levy@nyc.rr.com. Find out more

LEONARDO @ SIGGRAPH 2013
Save the dates! Join Leonardo at the 2013 SIGGRAPH Conference in Anaheim, California, 21-25 July 2013. Leonardo events include a presentation of SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Papers, a reception for the SIGGRAPH Gallery: XYZN: Scale (Tuesday, 23 July, 2-3:30 PM), the Leonardo Birds of a Feather community meeting (Wednesday 24 July, 1-2:30 PM) and the Cross-Disciplinary Education Birds of a Feather meeting, co-sponsored by the SIGGRAPH Education Committee and Leonardo Education and Art Forum (LEAF) (Sunday, 21 July, 9-10 AM) [http://s2013.siggraph.org/attendees/birds-feather]. At the gallery reception, you will have a chance to meet the artists and authors featured in the SIGGRAPH 2013 Art Catalog, published as a Leonardo special issue (Vol. 46, No. 4, 2013). At the Leonardo community meeting, you will have a chance to exchange ideas with other members of the Leonardo community as well as several Leonardo journal editors.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 1, 2013 at 8:53am: http://www.smh.com.au/afl/afl-news/its-been-a-big-week-in-art-with-...
There is one Creation-versus-Science debate that scientists should lose. And that's when the focus turns to art.

Debunking popularly-held beliefs about art's mysteries benefits no-one.

For 100 years art lovers were happy to believe Edvard Munch's own words regarding his most famous work, "The clouds were stained red, as if with blood. I felt as though the whole of nature was screaming - it seemed as though I could hear a scream."

Then in 2003 some pesky astronomers announced that it was not Munch's mental state but a volcanic eruption in Indonesia that turned the Northern European sky red.
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Well, those meddlers are at it again, this time shattering the mystery surrounding this portrait of Bulldogs ball-magnet Ryan Griffen à la Vladimir Tretchkoff.

Apparently, the green face is due not to some extreme psychological state, but leather-poisoning.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 1, 2013 at 8:53am: http://www.timescolonist.com/entertainment/visual-arts/modern-scien...
Modern science to modern art
microbiologist-turned-artist Chris Lindsay
After decades of scientific research, Lindsay, 62, presents his first solo art show since graduating from the University of Victoria’s master of fine arts program this spring.
“Science and art, I think, are part of the same expression,” Lindsay said in an interview at the gallery.

“We do art to generate a new experience, a new thought. … Through that, we learn about ourselves in this place and in relation to everything around us. And I think science is doing exactly the same thing.”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on July 1, 2013 at 8:24am: http://www.adn.com/2013/06/29/2956226/art-beat-music-masks-seek-to-...
Art Beat: Music, masks seek to connect art, science and understanding

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 30, 2013 at 5:27am: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/ATV/Meteorite_s...
Inspired by the dream of space exploration, artist Katie Paterson imagined sending a piece of her meteorite artwork back to space in a celebration of science, art and human technology. Her vision may just become reality, with a little help from ESA’s can-do cargo vessel.

Paterson’s installation, Campo del Cielo, Field of the Sky, is on display at the UK’s prestigious Turner Contemporary gallery this summer, and features a 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite that has been cast, melted and recast as a model of itself, retaining its original form.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 29, 2013 at 9:03am: http://londonist.com/2013/06/photo51-celebrates-a-landmark-in-genet...
Photo51 Celebrates A Landmark In Genetics By Mixing Science And Art
It’s been 60 years since the structure of DNA was first discovered, thus heralding a new era in science, the propagation of genetics and the many medical advances that followed. Though Watson and Crick are usually credited with its discovery, Wilkins, Gosling and Franklin at King’s College London also played an important role in uncovering DNA’s structure.

This exhibition both looks back across history, to the future and provides an artistic twist to genetics as well. Part of the historical context is provided by Christine Donnier-Valentin’s modern day photographs of the old labs in the basement of King’s College London. The labs themselves and the equipment within is well preserved despite their antiquity.

Also present are copies of the original x-ray crystallography images that helped scientists see at a greater magnification level and identify that DNA has a double helix structure. Both these images and of the lab may feel dated by modern scientific standards, but their historical significance is a window into one of science’s most important discoveries.

Shelley James has taken the structure of DNA as an inspiration to work with glass blowers to produce homages, signifying the delicacy of imaging techniques and the transparency that this discovery brought to science.

The star of this show is Marcus Lyon and his use of scientific imagery to create artworks – whether it be a contoured map made up of zebrafish brain scans or bright circular patterns made from the process used for identifying genetic profiles.

Pictures of jars that we see as indecipherably labelled and photographs of lab benches stacked with equipment and substance, can be seen as real world versions of Damien Hirst’s medicine cabinet. One room even has a mock lab bench where a slightly de-tuned radio plays chart music as if a researcher has only just stepped away.

This is an inventive mix of science and art, in yet another exhibition space within Somerset House, and it’s a fitting tribute to a truly revolutionary scientific discovery.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on June 29, 2013 at 8:58am: http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2013/06/27/former-professor-art-cha...
Former Professor of Art Challenges Science Interns to Find Deeper Meaning in Research; George Mason University and The National Institutes of Health Accept Challenge

The art/science challenge enables science interns to understand that the creative process needed to conduct the highest quality research and develop artwork is actually the same process. The ability to understand and express findings through different mediums creates the added value