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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 April 13, 2013 at 6:13am: From SymbioticA:
The Puzzle of Neolifism, the Strange Materiality of Regenerative and Synthetically Biological Things
Public talk with Oron Catts
Date: 30 May 2013
Time: 6 to 7pm
Venue: Murdoch Lecture Theatre, Arts Building, University of Western Australia
Parking: P3, Hackett Entrance 1
Cost: Free, but RSVP essential
Bookings: http://bit.ly/Y9MTN4
In 1906 Jacques Loeb suggested making a living system from dead matter as a way to debunk the vitalists' ideas and claimed to have demonstrated 'abiogenesis'. In 2010 Craig Venter announced that he created "the first self-replicating cell we've had on the planet whose parent is a computer", the "Mycoplasma laboratorium" which is commonly known as Synthia. In a sense Venter claimed to bring Loeb's dream closer to reality. What's relevant to our story is that one of the main images Venter (or his marketing team) chose for the outing of Synthia was of two round cultures that looked like a blue eyed gaze; a metaphysical image representing the missing eyes of the Golem. These are the first bits of a jigsaw puzzle that will be laid in this talk. Through the notion of Neolifism, this puzzle will explore and Re/De-Contextualise the strange materiality of things and assertions of regenerative and synthetic biology. Other parts of the puzzle include a World War II crash site of a Junkers 88 bomber at the far north of
Lapland, the first lab where the Tissue Culture & Art Project started to grow semi-living sculptures, frozen arks and de-extinctions, Alexis Carrel, industrial farms, Charles Lindbergh, worry dolls, rabbits' eyes, ear-mouse, gas chambers, active biomaterials, in-vitro meat and leather, incubators, freak-shows, museums, ghost organs, drones, crude matter, mud and a small piece of Plexiglas that holds this puzzle together.
SymbioticA's Agency in Movement Symposium
Friday 21st June 2013 9am-5pm
The University of Western Australia G06 Moot Court
Free registration (RSVP essential to christopher.cobilis@uwa.edu.au)
The Agency in Movement symposium employs a variety of disciplines to explore the complex relations between movement and vitality.
Motion is observed by attaching a frame of reference to a "body" and measuring its change in position relative to another reference frame. Therefore, movement is relative, means ever changing and is perceived as visceral and "alive". The Symposium will include invited speakers from diverse disciplines (art, performance, biology, biophysics, biomechanics, and philosophy) who will explore and interrogate the conceptual and technical relations between life (biological or artificial), movement and perceptions of "vitality", with the hope that some interesting meeting points and/or negations will emerge.
The symposium stems from an Australian Research Council project exploring the use of skeletal muscle tissue which is grown, stimulated and activated in a techno-scientific surrogate "body". This moving twitching (semi) living material evokes, makes unease, and asks, in sensorial and theoretical means about issues of aliveness and agency. The project is concerned with onto-ethico-epistemological (Barad 2010) questions about life and the affect created through the phenomenon of movement.
Speakers include: Monika Bakke, Andrew Pelling, Elizabeth Stephens, Jonas Rubenson, Stuart Hodgetts, Chris Salter, Jennifer Johung, Oron Catts, Miranda Grounds and Ionat Zurr
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/activities/symposiums

Adaptation exhibition available to tour nationally 2013-14
SymbioticA's Art and Ecology project Adaptation, exhibited first in Mandurah last year is now available to tour in Australia via Art On The Move. Interested venues and groups should check:
http://bit.ly/XAl23l
Adaptation's first stop is Katanning (WA) in May.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 13, 2013 at 6:12am: Tissue Engineering Workshop with Oron Catts
Workshop dates: May 22, 23, 24, 2013
Location: Pelling Lab at the University of Ottawa Canada
Workshop fee: $250
Subtle Technologies is excited to announce an upcoming workshop on Tissue Engineering. In partnership with SymbioticA, at The University of Western Australia and the Pelling Lab at the University of Ottawa. This workshop is being presented by Oron Catts and Andrew Pelling and his team at the Pelling Lab for Biophysical Manipulation.
http://subtletechnologies.com/workshops/
http://fs4.formsite.com/subtletechnologies/form5/index.html
Application deadline: May 1, 2013

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 13, 2013 at 6:03am: http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2013/apr/11/special-family-day-conn...
Senior biochemistry major Alexis Mobley likes to think she has good chemistry with children.

On Saturday, Mobley and her Angelo State University American Chemistry Society counterparts will get a chance to test that theory as they help a slew of kids with science experiments.

The chemistry students are combining art with science at this month’s San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts Family Day.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 13, 2013 at 6:02am: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/apr/11/balboa-park-cultural-par...
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jan/22/tp-balboa-park-cultural-...
You and the arts can provide solutions
Balboa Park looking for volunteers for Art of Science Learning project

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 12, 2013 at 5:52am: If you are having trouble viewing the images please check your e-mail privacy settings.
THREE DAYS | 100 HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS | $5,000 IN PRIZES

A new kind of competition for Utah high school students will come to The Leonardo on June 6th. Mind Riot is a three-day innovation collaboration that brings high school students together with experts in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), business and creativity to work on some of the biggest and most important challenges human beings face today.

Only 100 students will be selected to participate. Applications are open to all Utah high school students currently enrolled in 8-12 grade, but the deadline is fast approaching! Application materials must be submitted online or postmarked no later than Sunday, April 14.
WHO SHOULD APPLY?

Students who get how to use science, technology, engineering and math in the real world. Crazy-creative types. Inventers and builders who know what it really takes to make stuff. People who are good organizers and leaders. And then there are the ones who aren’t afraid to get up and talk – the orators and performers.
If you know (or are) a high school student who fits any of these descriptions, visit mindriot.theleonardo.org to learn how to get involved.

Questions? Please feel free to contact Michael Petralia at mpetralia@theleonardo.org or 801 531 9800 x 122.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 12, 2013 at 5:50am: http://weather.aol.com/2013/04/05/nasas-robert-simmon-on-transformi...
NASA's Robert Simmon on Transforming Science Into Art
The art director translates complex satellite data into stunning images.
Some of the most stunning and well-known images to come out of NASA in recent years - including the Blue Marble image of Earth that was the default shot on countless new iPhone screens - were created by a group of six people working in a government office in Maryland. At the helm is Robert Simmon. He's the art director for the Earth Observatory, the NASA website that communicates the agency's Earth science research to the public. The EO takes data about climate and the environment from NASA satellites, research and climate models and transforms it into images and animation that non-scientists can understand. His images often inspire wonder and awe.
Basically, we've learned how to use data and turn those into images. Depending on the data set -- because some are much easier to use than others -- the process is: You find out about some interesting topic and go and get the raw data. Data comes in a few different flavors. The easiest to explain is true-color imagery, which is like the red, green and blue channels in a digital photograph. This data comes from satellites. It's the same idea with false-color images, except that one or more of the channels may be from wavelengths invisible to human eyes, like infrared. The second type of data is measurements. We'll also make charts, which could represent data from satellites, models or direct measurements from instruments on the ground, a plane or a weather balloon.

Working from the raw data is significant because scientists are usually making images for their peers, not broader audiences, and they're trained in science, not graphic design or data visualization. We try to make imagery that appeals to, and is understandable by, non-experts.

We'll first process the data in a way so that it can be read by software like Illustrator and Photoshop and then we do the finish, polish layer. The little final touches make something a really striking, attention-grabbing image that people can really resonate with.
Your background is mostly in engineering, but creating these images seems almost like artwork. Did you have any experience studying art before you got to NASA?

I don't have any formal training in either art or design, but essentially was self-taught from going to art museums -- living in DC, they're all free -- and learning to appreciate the visual side of things. Then, having a good science background from an engineering degree meant that I could understand scientists. I was in this position where I'm not a scientist and not an artist, but can understand both worlds. And I think that -- this is a generalization and obviously not entirely true -- there are a lot of scientists that are uncomfortable with art and a lot of artists who are uncomfortable with science. Being squarely in the middle is pretty much perfect for what I do. I'm just trying to present information as clearly as possible: information that can be very complex, as well as information that is very relevant and, in some ways, controversial.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 12, 2013 at 4:40am: Thanks for the information, Mark!

Comment by mark.e.gould on April 11, 2013 at 6:26am: EXPLORATORIUM OPENS APRIL 17, 2013 ON SAN FRANCISCO’S WATERFRONT AT PIER 15
New Embarcadero Gem to Feature 150 New Exhibits, Bay Observatory,
Outdoor Gallery and Free Civic Space - more opening day information

The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. We believe that following your curiosity and asking questions can lead to amazing moments of discovery, learning, and awareness and can increase your confidence in your ability to understand how the world works. We also believe that being playful and having fun is an important part of the process for people of all ages.

The new, 330,000-square-foot museum at Pier 15 along the Embarcadero has three times more space than the previous location at the Palace of Fine Arts in the city’s Marina neighborhood.

Changing the Way Science Is Taught

For most students, science is still defined by textbook chapter assignments on Monday and vocabulary quizzes on Friday. Regrettably, only about one out of ten classrooms give students an opportunity to experience science in an interactive way. The Exploratorium is working to change that.

The Exploratorium first opened in 1969 with Cybernetic Serendipity, the seminal exhibition of art, science, and technology curated by Jasia Reichardt for the Institute of Contemporary Art in London. Soon after, in 1974, the creation of an artist-in-residence program made possible dialogue and collaboration between artists and other interdisciplinary thinkers such as scientists, engineers, educators and inventors. By the late 1970‘s the Exploratorium had established itself as the home for a burgeoning counter-cultural art scene.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 11, 2013 at 5:39am: Art Science Gallery: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/join-our-evolution-at-art-science...
For all of you awesome science artists, we've created this gallery with you in mind - a space dedicated to science-art fusion of all kinds, and a place to show your work. Also, please help us spread the word if you can!
Join Our Evolution at Art.Science.Gallery.
Art.Science.Gallery. is an art gallery and science communication space in Austin, Texas. We are evolving from a "pop-up" space to a brick-and-mortar gallery!

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 11, 2013 at 5:38am: http://thedailycougar.com/2013/04/09/art-science-collide/
Art, science collide
The chairman of the Department of Ophthalmology at Methodist Hospital presented a world where science and art collide to make something unique and powerful, and he explored how much of that art is science, and how much is experimentation.

Doctor Richard Fish presented the lecture as an optometrist and as a lover of art. His lecture, The Eye: Ocular Diseases and Visual Artists, showcased famous artists and how their works might have been influenced by ocular diseases.

“Many people think that impressionists suffered myopia (nearsighted),” Fish said. “But when you look at some of their earlier work, you can see that it’s very clear and has plenty of detail so it’s much more likely that they were just experimenting with technique.”

That wasn’t the case for some artists, though. Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt suffered from cataracts later in life that impaired their work. Fish presented their work before cataracts and as the disease progressed. The vibrant colors and rich detail were lost to muddy reds and simple sketching.