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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 March 12, 2016 at 8:31am: Brain tumors as artistic inspiration
The surprising beauty of “Connecting Narratives,” artist Dr. Immy Smith’s project to bring new attention to brain tumors and the dangers they pose.

Smith, who studied biomedicine before earning a doctorate in pharmacology, is a artist-in-residence at the Brain Tumour Research Centre at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K. There, she worked with the lab scientists to develop an exhibition visualizing the often-unseen issue of treating brain tumors.
“Connecting Narratives” will appear at the Aspex Gallery in Portsmouth, U.K, through April 1.
View her wonderful art here: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/art-brain-tumors/

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on March 12, 2016 at 8:25am: Arts@CERN launches COLLIDE International Award
Criteria of the call

The competition is open to artists of any nationality or age. Their proposal should reflect upon encounters between art and science, and offer challenging methods of collaboration with CERN scientists. The scope of this proposal should also consider a second developmental phase at FACT, where the artists will have the opportunity to expand their research and test its applications through FACTLab’s facilities and engagement with a wide range of communities. The ultimate goal for the residency will be the research and development of new concepts in laboratory contexts.

COLLIDE Open Call for Entries encourages the participation of artists interested in the ideas described above, complying with any of the following criteria:

Artists interested in the cultural significance of science.
Artists working with digital and scientific media, technology and concepts as inspiration for their work.
Artists engaging with an innovative discourse on contemporary culture, following ambitious standards of creativity.
Artists demonstrating an active interest in the institutional visions, research methodologies, and cultural engagement of CERN and FACT.
Artists interested in the processes of fundamental science and particle physics who are able to extrapolate this understanding into projects of artistic excellence.
Artists pushing the traditional forms of collaboration between the artistic and scientific fields, and asking innovative and provocative questions in this respect.
Artists approaching science and research from diverse angles of enquiry, such as political, ethical, or sociological perspectives.

3. Conditions and participation

COLLIDE International Award grants an artist with a fully funded residency at CERN and FACT. The artist will spend the first two months at CERN, Geneva, followed by a one-month stay at FACT, Liverpool (not necessarily consecutively).

The award includes the following conditions:

15,000 Swiss Francs as an Award.
Allowance for two months at CERN, Geneva and one month at FACT, Liverpool.
Travel costs and accommodation within a fixed budget for the three months of the artistic residency at CERN and FACT.

The awarded artist is expected:

To work with a scientific partner at CERN, and with the teams of Arts@CERN and FACT during the residency, exploring ideas and research and interacting with various communities in each location.
To conduct interventions, talks and/or workshops during the residency, including CERN and FACT staff, as well as other relevant communities such as artists, scientists, academics.
To communicate the creative process and research developed during the residency through social media platforms, a blog or similar, in order to reach global audiences.
To meet regularly with the CERN scientific partner in order to discuss the process of artistic research, exploration and discovery, and to additionally work with other scientists.
During the residency at FACT, to establish conversations and explore collaborations with scientists and academics from Liverpool University and Liverpool John Moores University.
To communicate regularly with the teams at Arts@CERN and FACT to develop the proposal and ensure its satisfactory completion during the residency.
The main scientific language used at CERN and FACT is English, therefore it is essential to speak English fluently.

FACT and CERN are equal opportunity organisations and are fully committed to a policy of treating all of its collaborators equally.
Get more information here:
http://arts.web.cern.ch/collide-international-award

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on March 11, 2016 at 9:29am: Science captured as beautiful works of art
Every year, the world’s biggest charity for biomedical research, the Wellcome Trust, awards those who can visually display science as art.
Here is a list of Quartz’s favorite images from the 2016 winners of the Wellcome Image Awards.
View them here: http://qz.com/634928/photos-science-captured-as-beautiful-works-of-...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on March 8, 2016 at 8:21am: In World Science Festival, Brisbane, Australia, starting on 9th March, 2016, a five-day extravaganza of cutting-edge knowledge that is programmed more like an arts expo.

The festival’s co-creator, Brian Greene, says this is deliberate. “Most people see science and art as radically different,” says Greene, a physics professor at Columbia University in New York. “One of the goals of the World Science Festival is to reach the person who would go to an art event but never a science event — have them come in for the art, and leave with the science.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/briefs-nation/art-key-to-world...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on March 7, 2016 at 11:55am: BioArt : What is our True Relationship with the Human Microbiome?
The exhibition “Nonhuman Subjectivities – The Other Selves. On the Phenomenon of the Microbiome” was curated at Art Laboratory Berlin last weekend.
http://labiotech.eu/bioart-what-is-our-true-relationship-with-the-h...

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Scientific art: It is so beautiful when physics meets technology

Witness the most mesmerising creations – from kinetic wind-powered sculptures to sound waves in water, the fluid dynamics of liquid mercury and face and projection mapping. It is glorious!

https://www.siliconrepublic.com/innovation/2016/03/05/scientific-ar...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on March 6, 2016 at 8:52am: Art in Science in art - a beautiful way to present both...

More than 1,000 community votes were cast in UC Santa Barbara’s third annual Art of Science competition sponsored by the Schuller Lab and the campus’s Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships at the California NanoSystems Institute. From the 40 entries, five winners and five honorable mentions were chosen.

Graduate student Suoqing Ji took first place, with postdoctoral scholar Daniel DeMartini coming in second place. Three third-place awards were presented: Graduate students Juan Manuel Escalante and Kurt Kaminski shared an award for their collaborative piece and postdoctoral scholar Christian Pester received a single third-place award. The People’s Choice award was presented to postdoctoral researcher Emmanouela Filippidi.

The five honorable mentions were graduate students David X. Cao, Preeti Ovartchaiyapong and Nancy Scherich, undergraduate Bianca Dunn and postdoctoral scholar Nan Shi.

Beginning March 28, the artwork will be exhibited at the UCSB Library, in the first-floor Tower Gallery. The exhibit will move to the campus’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum in the fall.

http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/016531/science-beautiful#sthash.UzjKA...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on March 5, 2016 at 8:35am: Art-science exhibition featuring gravitational waves makes journal cover

The Einstein Collective, a MSU-heavy group of artists, scientists and educators, collaborated to create Black (W)hole, an installation that was featured on the cover of the February issue of Leonardo, a journal dedicated to the application of contemporary science and technology in the arts.
http://www.montana.edu/news/16007/msu-art-science-exhibition-featur...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on March 3, 2016 at 9:30am: A controversy: ONLY ONE ARTIST CAN USE BLACKEST MATERIAL IN THE WORLD
The latest controversy in the art world is a furor over the darkest material ever created.
In 2014, Surrey NanoSystems announced that it had created Vantablack, a "forest" of nanotubes that can be grown on an aluminum base. It is the darkest material ever, absorbing so much light that it can fool the eye into seeing a smooth surface on a crumpled sheet of aluminum foil.
It's really neat, but many artists are furious that the exclusive rights to use the ultra-black material in art have been given to Anish Kapoor a sculptor.
Surrey NanoSystems is restricting the use of Vantablack in art, but not other areas, citing the difficulty of actually using the material, and their basic desire not to deal with the customs headache of exporting it from the UK. Vantablack is not a paint or a pigment, as Surrey NanoSystems points out
Vantablack is generally not suitable for use in art due to the way in which it's made. Vantablack S-VIS also requires specialist application to achieve its aesthetic effect. In addition, the coating's performance beyond the visible spectrum results in it being classified as a dual-use material that is subject to UK Export Control. We have therefore chosen to license Vantablack S-VIS exclusively to Kapoor Studios UK to explore its use in works of art. This exclusive licence limits the coating’s use in the field of art, but does not extend to any other sectors.
Surrey NanoSystems.
While artists might disagree with the idea that a nanotech company gets to decide what is "generally not suitable for use in art", Surrey NanoSystems is not restricting the use of Vantablack entirely.

http://www.popsci.com/only-one-artist-can-use-blackest-material-in-...

http://www.popsci.com/only-one-artist-can-use-blackest-material-in-...
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/anish-kapoor-fine-ar...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on March 1, 2016 at 8:29am: New Exhibition about Art and Science in the Contemporary World
Biology and Art is an exhibition considering the relationship between art and science in the contemporary world. Comprised of nanoscopic neurons, slime mold ceramics, and natural installations, this exhibition explores the reciprocal nature of biology and art. Including concepts that marry scientific research with artistic inquiry, Membrane investigates human curiosity and man’s modern relationship to the natural world.

BOSTON CYBERARTS. MEMBRANE: BIOLOGY AND ART. OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, MARCH 25TH 6 – 8PM. EXHIBITION: MARCH 26TH – MAY 1ST, 2016.

Boston Cyberarts, Inc., 9 Myrtle Street, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130.

http://www.yareah.com/2016/02/29/boston-cyberarts-new-exhibition-ar...

Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on February 25, 2016 at 8:25am: Robot Can Now Critic Art
scientists have successfully developed a robot that is full well capable of forming its own opinions concerning art – in other words, a robotic art critic.
The robot has been programmed to obtain a human crowd’s response to work of art before using all of that collected data as a “based” so that it can come up with its very own “artificial taste.” Well, with robots being able to transform selfies into line drawn art.
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/02/robot-can-now-critic-art/