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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)
‘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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ECHO PART 1 - A NEUROLOGICAL SOUNDSCAPE
A site-specific intimate and immersive experience into an auditory world of an 85-year old living with dementia.
APR 17 - 21, 2013 | A SITE-SPECIFIC EVENT (HOBART)
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CONSTANTINE KOUKIAS, SOUNDSCAPE BY JANE BAKER, PRODUCTION DESIGNERS ELVIO BRIANESE & PETA HEFFERNAN, LIVE SOUND ENGINEER GREG GURR LIGHTING DESIGN JASON JAMES
A new work from the Tasmanian creative team behind The Barbarians (MONA FOMA 2011), IHOS Music Theatre & Opera Artistic Director Constantine Koukias has worked closely with collaborators Jane Baker (Scenarist and Sound Artist) and architects Elvio Brianese and Peta Heffernan (Directors of Liminal Studios) to explore the inner world of the neurologically disjointed and emotionally isolating experience of living with dementia; creating a 20 min experience for only 24 persons at a time.
Echo Part 1 - A Neurological Soundscape requires each audience member to wear a set of headphones. They will be seated in the round along the perimeter of a revolving stage and will experience an environmental manipulation of visual and auditory suggestion, launching them into the space that is neither awake nor asleep. Like many IHOS productions, this will be a unique experience that will premiere in Hobart.
After 22 years of productions, Echo will be the last work for IHOS, before Artistic Director Constantine Koukias relocates (temporarily) to Amsterdam to pursue the creation of a new company. Don't miss this opportunity!
April 17-21 2013
http://www.sac.org.au/portfolio/echo-part-l/
THE PORTRAIT ANATOMISED by Susan Aldworth
National Portrait Gallery, London - Room 38a
Until 1 September 2013
Admission Free
Three people whose sense of identity is challenged by a common neurological condition will have their portraits on show at the National Portrait Gallery, London from March - September 2013. Elisabeth, Fiona and Max are all living successfully with epilepsy. Their life-size portraits have been created by internationally renowned artist Susan Aldworth, whose work explores the relationship between mind and body. "What is the subjective experience of having a fit like? How does epilepsy affect your life?" These are questions Aldworth put to her sitters.
CUT/PASTE/GROW: Science at Play Bioart in Brooklyn
Until May 11, 2013
Gallery Hours: Saturdays & Sundays, 12-6 PM
Life is restless. Bioartists-the emerging group of practitioners who manipulate living tissues, DNA, and bacteria-must embrace this restlessness. The lab is a garden, and the bioartist is the gardener for the new millennium, where breeding advances naturally into gene splicing.
CUT/PASTE/GROW provides a space to ask fundamental new questions about aesthetics and our assumptions about life and death. What, for example, makes a beautiful blueprint for a beautiful form-what makes a beautiful gene?
http://observatoryroom.org/2013/02/24/cutpastegrow-show-opening/
Real Fiction Lecture Series
April- May 2013 Institute of Design - University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Engineering biology sits at the heart of the next technological revolution: genetics, molecular biology, synthetic biology. We have been manipulating nature for hundreds of years, will it be different? What would the everyday 'microbial' world look like? and who is imagining it? DIY bio-hackers are already attempting to democratise the technology and the debate around its use - can the design imagination also participate? Bring it into the everyday and add to the discussion? In the last series we asked if imagination and imaginative processes 'through Design' can infect reality and be a contributor to substantial processes of change? Perhaps this is where it is needed most?
Lectures:
Thursday 18th April - 6.30pm, Lichthof 2
Shopping & Hacking/DIY-bio (real & fictional)
Koby Barhad & Gunter Seyfried
Thursday 2nd May - 6.30 pm, Lichthof 2
Design Fiction/Citizens and the Public Imagination
Markus Schmidt & Bruce Sterling
Monday 6th May - 6.30pm, Lichthof 2
Ethical Complexities and Dilemmas
Jens Hauser & Revital Cohen
Monday 27th May - 6.30pm, Lichthof 2
Futures, Design meets Science
Anab Jain & Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
OBEL RESEARCH TALK AT LAWRENCE WILSON ART GALLERY
Friday 12 April 2013
Public talk with researchers from the Optical + Biomedical Engineering Laboratory (OBEL) in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, UWA
1pm at the Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, UWA
LUMINOUSFLUX explores the ways in which local and international artists harness the magical palette of light. In this talk, researchers from the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics will discuss their current research related to the use of light as a medical diagnostic tool.
Imagine a microscope small enough to be placed inside a needle. Then consider the possibilities this creates in examining how our bodies work. Engineers, pathologists, surgeons and radiologists have been working together on a microscope-in-a-needle, which can be used during surgery to tell where the edge of the cancer is to improve the rate of success.
Their goal, of breast tumour margin identification during surgery, to prevent women from needing secondary procedures, is in sight. This talk will reveal this and other cutting-edge technologies developed by the OBEL team.
Plant Energy Biology and School of Plant Biology jointly present:
PROFESSOR CHUCK PRICE (Plant Biology UWA)
"The Metabolic Theory of Ecology: prospects and Challenges for Plant Biology"
Thursday April 18, 2013 4pm
G.33 Lecture Theatre, Bayliss Building UWA
Flyer and full cv available on request to Jennifer.gillett@uwa.edu.au
ESSAY PRIZE CALL
TOPIC: NEW MEDIA ART, ELECTRONIC AUDIOVISUAL ART, MULTIMEDIA ART, VIDEO ART, CYBERART, BIOART, DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES and any creative symbiosis between art, science and technology.
MADATAC, in its aspiration to spread the bibliography in Spanish concerning the practice, study and research of new media narratives and tools of the new audiovisual digital art in all its forms, not forgetting the contributions of the past, calls for a prize of essay eligible for all authors, regardless of their nationality, provided that the manuscript is written in Spanish or English language and fits the theme of the prize, be original, unpublished and has not previously been awarded in any other competition, or corresponds to a deceased author before submitting the work for the award. Collections of articles will not be accepted.
For more info: info@madatac.es
Call closes 2 Sept 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS
POSTNATURAL
SLSA CONFERENCE 2013 The 27th Annual Meeting of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts
University of Notre Dame Indiana October 3-6 2013
Site Coordinator Laura Dassow Walls, Department of English, University of Notre Dame.
Program Chair Ron Broglio, Department of English, Arizona State University.
SLSA Membership Participants in the 2013 conference must be 2013 members of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts.
Paper Proposal Due Date May 1, 2013
http://www.litsci.org/index.html
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Case Pyhäjoki - Artistic reflections on nuclear influence Transdisciplinary expedition, production workshop and events
Location: Pyhäjoki, Finland
Time: 31.7. - 12.8.2013
For whom: artists, activists, scientists, thinkers and doers + everything and opinion in between.
'Case Pyhäjoki - Artistic reflections on nuclear influence' is a transdisciplinary artistic expedition, production workshop and presentation events in Pyhäjoki, North Ostrobothnia, Finland 31st of July to 12th of August 2013. The sixth nuclear power plant of Finland is planned to be built at Hanhikivi Cape in Pyhäjoki.
http://bioartsociety.fi/980-2/case-pyhajoki-call-for-participants
Deadline to apply: 5 May 2013
CALL FOR PROPOSALS
Art & Science - Hybrid Art and Interdisciplinary Research 2014
Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by an overwhelming awareness of scientific and technological issues. The field of art that interacts with the practices of science and its technologies is commonly referred to as Art&Science. During the past decades, the hybrid field of art & research has become more or less established, with iconic works, established institutions and documented histories. The interrelation between music, art, natural and computer sciences can be seen in new media art, biotechnological or telecommunication art and other contemporary artistic practices that have an experimental character.
http://www.rhizope.org/
Deadline: 30 April 2013
FROM THE LABORATORY TO THE STUDIO:
INTERDISCIPLINARY PRACTICES IN BIO ART
May 21-June 21
School of Visual Arts New York
4 undergraduate studio credits; USD$2400
>From anatomical studies to landscape painting to the biomorphism of surrealism, the biological realm historically provided a significant resource for numerous artists. More recently, bio art has become a term referring to intersecting domains of the biological sciences and their incorporation into the plastic arts. Of particular importance in bio art is to summon awareness of the ways in which biomedical sciences alter social, ethical and cultural values in society.
http://www.sva.edu/special-programs/summer-residency-programs/bio-art
ymbioticA seminar series
Guy Ben-Ary and Kirsten Hudson: In Potentia
Date: 19 April 2013
Time: 3:00pm
Location: SymbioticA
Speakers: Guy Ben-Ary and Kirsten Hudson
Interested in how art has the potential to problematise the shifting forces that determine life and death, Guy Ben-Ary and Kirsten Hudson have developed in potentia: a liminal, boundary creature created as a speculative techno-scientific experiment with disembodied human material, diagnostic biomedicine equipment and a stem cell reprogramming technique called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS). Beginning with foreskin cells purchased from an on-line catalogue, Ben-Ary and Hudson use iPS cell technology to reverse engineer foreskin cells into embryonic (like) stemcells and then further transform them into neurons. What results is in potentia: a functioning neural network encased within a purpose built sculptural incubator reminiscent of eighteenth century scientific paraphernalia. Complete with custom-made automated feeding and waste retrieval system and electrophysiological recording setup, in potentia converts neural activity into an unsettling soundscape that challenges understandings of "life" and the malleability of the human body.
Created from animate and inanimate matter, in potentia summons us to consider how techno-scientific developments have led us to a point where one's corporeality no longer imposes strict limits on the body, or even on life and death. Embodying the unsettling possibilities of the not-yet living and the not-yet dead, in potentia not only symbolises our worst nightmares regarding the destruction of clear-cut categories of life, death and embodied material wholeness; it also forces us to see that rather than being a concrete and discrete category, who or what is called a person is a highly contingent formation that is neither stable nor self-evident. Ben-Ary and Hudson's alchemical transformation of living human material thus makes us wonder: What is the potential for artworks employing bio- and other technologies to address, and modify, boundaries surrounding understandings of life, death and personhood? And what exactly does it mean to make a living biological brain from human foreskin cells?
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