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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 11, 2013 at 5:37am: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogsburger/56130566-53/utah-youth-cro...
The Crossroads Project — a mixture of music, art and science — to be presented at U of U
The fragile ecosystem and its challenhes will be presented in a mixture of music, art and science called The Crossroads Project on April 28 at the University of Utah’s Libby Gardner Hall, sponsored by the Utah Youth Orchestras.
Musicians from the Fry Street Quartet at Utah State University will, according to a news release, "take the audience on an intellectual and emotional journey while photographic and visual images of earth’s fragile ecology are flashed on screens. Physicist and educator Dr. Robert Davies ties the elements together with timely messages and commentary.

Davies, who emphasizes that the presentation is science-based, warns that 'the same science that informs us of our peril, opens windows for escape. But the hour is late, and the windows quickly closing. For all our good intentions, we are badly losing this game."'Rather, Davies hopes The Crossroads Project – so named to underscore a crucial juncture where so much of life hangs in the balance – can help civilization "transform our great and difficult task, into a magnum opus of human achievement." Seen around the world in venues from Boston and New York to Monterrey Mexico and Brazil, The Crossroads Project is gaining critical acclaim not only for its message but the multidisciplinary way the message is delivered. Composer Laura Kaminsky’s original music is performed along with the works of Haydn and Janáček. This ambitious uniting of the arts and science produces a forceful commentary on global sustainability."

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 11, 2013 at 5:34am: http://stellrscope.com/2013/04/09/massive-magical/?goback=.gde_1636...
Massive & MAGICal
assive and MAGICal – ‘MAGICal Wheat’ by Eleanor Gates-Stuart in collaboration with Dr Sherry Mayo, CSIRO.

On-going StellrScope research on wheat structures and visualising the wheatear. Sherry produced a 3D micro-CT scan of a section of wheat and Drishti to render the data. MAGICal A is merged with the movie file – both image files are connected to 3D spatial data of wheat, its DNA and growth.

This movie file is a preview to the forthcoming, CSIRO informed science art works StellrScope at Questacon in August and at the CSIRO Discovery Centre.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 11, 2013 at 5:30am: http://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/appliance-of-science-to-his-...
Appliance of science to his art
If that last statement seems to veer into science rather than the language of aesthetics, there is a good reason for that. Foley recalls early days reading art history and not seeing his intuitions discussed. He did, however, find a useful descriptive metaphor in science writing. Though he is by his own admission an armchair fan, he did find it enabling. “The way science and physics has moved, to that idea that we all are made of the same stuff. I related to that language. Looking at particle physics, the Uncertainty Principle, that is how I feel when I think about painting. That opened up a landscape to me. Science and art don’t have to be separated at all. Scientists are looking at reality too. The language in that was what I was looking for, that was the connection.”

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 11, 2013 at 5:15am: http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/columnists/kennette-benedict...
Science, art, and the legacy of Martyl
Martyl first considered using the letter U, the chemical symbol for uranium, as her design. As she listened more intently to their conversations, though, she soon realized that it was the atomic scientists' urgency about the looming dangers of this new technology that was most compelling. So she drew the hands of a clock ticking down to midnight. Like the countdown to an atomic bomb explosion, it suggested the destruction that awaited if no one took action to stop it.

Martyl created a substantial body of artwork over the years, and would sometimes chuckle about how she came to be known as the "clock lady," bemused by all the attention for a simple drawing. But I think she also came to enjoy the recognition she won for creating one of the most significant graphic designs of the 20th century.
Martyl became art editor of the Bulletin, illustrating issues and persuading her artist friends to contribute their drawings as well, "for pennies," as she put it. She thought the eye needed a rest from the text-heavy pages with news about atomic energy, Soviet and US nuclear bomb tests, government secrecy, and the ethics of conducting scientific research for the military.
While the drawings and designs in the Bulletin added humor and visual appeal, the publication also reflected a deeper connection between art and science through the quality of the writing, the expressiveness of the authors, and the continuous use of the Doomsday Clock to "exploit the wonderful capacity of the human mind to comprehend wholes without seeing the parts," as Martyl wrote on page 51 of the February 1959 issue. Her clock design conveyed the state of nuclear danger with exquisite economy; the editors appealed to both the heads and hearts of their readers.

The February 1959 issue, titled "Science and Art" and co-edited by Martyl and University of Chicago metallurgy professor Cyril Stanley Smith, drew an explicit connection. In the introductory essay, they compared the work of artists to that of scientists, suggesting that "the artist is concerned principally with complex relationships and depends on active participation of his audience in developing the pattern," while the scientist lays out results with simple precision so that the audience can understand an aspect of the world.

To this day, the Bulletin seeks participation by scientists, artists, writers, policy makers, and interested citizens to lead an intelligent debate about the mind-numbing, often horrifying, problems of nuclear and climate change catastrophe. To move past the numbness and provoke action, the Bulletin draws on art and design to create new ways of feeling, just as it taps science for new ways of knowing. In large measure, this is Martyl's legacy.

A constant presence in the Bulletin community, Martyl was a spirited, outspoken force among the likes of Fermi, Simpson, Szilard, Fermilab director Robert R. Wilson, and Nobel physicist Leon Lederman. She invited them and their families to her family's home for dinners and parties. She came to know their foibles and quirks in the close-knit community of Chicago scientists and intellectuals during the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, and she also understood that these brilliant scientists, for all their genius and wisdom, wrestled with their own demons as they sorted out their reactions to the Bomb.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 11, 2013 at 5:10am: http://www1.umn.edu/news/news-releases/2013/UR_CONTENT_438538.html
'Bell Social' returns April 27 to celebrate science, art and music

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 10, 2013 at 6:50am: http://www.studio360.org/2013/apr/05/winner-remixing-spring/?goback...
using a dozen bird songs recorded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, we asked you to create an original musical composition on the theme of Spring. We received more than 100 compositions, ranging from classical to electronica to jazz, even radio drama. (Listen to them all below.) This week, Greg Budney, curator of audio at the Lab, and Kurt Andersen announce their favorites. The winning entry, Marlo Reynolds’ “Certhia Americana,” took the Brown Creeper as its base, mixing the bird’s call with a poem written and performed by Reynolds’ collaborator Gump.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 10, 2013 at 6:21am: http://blogs.artcenter.edu/dottedline/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Un...
Under the Microscope - the science-art movement in the US

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 10, 2013 at 6:15am: http://blogs.artcenter.edu/dottedline/2013/04/08/artnews-williamson...

ARTnews Recognizes Williamson Gallery as Shaping Art/Science Movement

In the March 2013 issue of ARTnews Magazine, arts writer Suzanne Muchnic features the Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery on the Art Center Hillside Campus and its nearly two decade-long series of exhibitions. The cover story, “Under the Microscope,” also features other leading contributors to the burgeoning art/science movement, noting that “in museums, schools, and research facilities, scientists and artists are swapping methods.”

When it opened, the Williamson Gallery organized exhibitions featuring an international group of artists engaging with science and using new technologies. Exhibitions such as Digital Mediations (1995), Charles and Ray Eames’ Mathematica (2000), GHz: The Post-Analog Object in L.A. (2002), and collaborations with experimental new-media artists Jim Campbell (1997), Sara Roberts (1998), Jennifer Steinkamp (2000), Paul De Marinis (2001), Christian Moeller (2001) and Michael Naimark (2005) exposed new experimentations that helped expand the vocabulary of contemporary art and its critique.

The gallery has also become a recognized venue for art/science projects that were organized elsewhere and are now travelling to museums worldwide. Such exhibitions include Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace (2000), Situated Realities: Works from the Silicon Elsewhere (2002), Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution (2003), Crochet Coral Reef (2011) and The History of Space Photography (2012).

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 10, 2013 at 6:03am: http://subtletechnologies.com/workshops/?goback=.gde_1636727_member...
Tissue Engineering Workshop with Oron Catts
Workshop dates: May 22, 23, 24, 2013

Location: Pelling Lab at the University of Ottawa. Ottawa, Canada

Workshop fee: $250

To apply: submit an online application form

Application deadline: May 1, 2013

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. With thanks to; Dr Stuart Hodgetts, Dr Ionat Zurr & Bryan Keith.

The idea of growing products rather than manufacturing them has been explored and critiqued through the notion of the semi-living by the Tissue Culture and Art Project (TC&A) since 1996. It stems from the developments in biomedical research in the 1990s; in particular tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. The premise was that we can evoke the latent regenerative abilities of the biological body to grow organs and tissues either inside or outside of the biological or techno-scientific bodies. In the last fifteen years, many artists have used living tissue as a medium for artistic expression. The workshop will cover some of the main techniques of regenerative medicine and will explore the broader cultural and artistic implication of using living tissue within an artistic context.

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on April 10, 2013 at 5:16am: http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/alto-by-mark-francis-29179150.html
TIME was when that so-called Renaissance Man was the true all-rounder. Wikipedia, move over. Science, literature, art, music, politics might seem separate and distinct, but the truly educated man and woman should be at ease among those different worlds.

Scientist, writer, artist and composer co-exist, interconnect and respond uniquely to the world. A painting can capture scientific progress; a composer can capture a terrorist atrocity; a novelist can capture political temperatures.

In Mark Francis's work, art and science combine with startling, fresh results. If you want to know what's modern, Alto by Mark Francis is a bang-up-to-date painting. It works on many levels. The initial impact is a bright blaze of horizontal lines, some pencil thin, some broader bands, dissolving towards blur in places. The mixture of acrylic and oil makes for a high-gloss sheen and dancing, hovering, before this multi-coloured barcode are matt, fuzzy-coloured discs, eight in all, their surfaces providing contrasting textures.

The orange, blue, red and yellows are all the more vibrant because of those pure black strokes; there's both a top-to-toe energy and a three-dimensional energy between circle and vertical.

London-based Mark Francis, whose work hangs in New York's Metropolitan, Machida Museum, Tokyo, London's Tate, IMMA and Hugh Lane, is from Newtownards, Co Down.

As a boy, he loved the natural world – rock pools, birds' eggs, fungi – and his earlier work has been inspired by what the microscope reveals. This new work explores how radio telescopes chart far-off, cosmic zones. He calls his latest show Calibrate; in other words, he's interested in precise, accurate measurements. "Radio telescopes," says Mark Francis, "are pointing to the skies continuously listening for sounds. It could be the sound of a distant star that exploded millions of years ago. We are only now hearing them."

Interested in what the human eye can not ordinarily see and what scientific research tells us, "I always wonder what the edge of the universe is like," says Francis. The radio telescope is accurate and precise. Mark Francis does more, he gives us an optical intensity and an open space. This art is the future.

And why the title Alto? Doesn't that canvas zing and sing?

Calibrate runs at the Kerlin Gallery, South Anne St, Dublin until April 13