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After interacting with artists who are into science-art, participating in various discussions with them, reading what they write and listening to what they have to say about science and science-art, I came across these misconceptions about science and scientists among artists:

According to some artists, science cannot advance on its own and therefore need art to take it forward! ( Where is art all these days when science is taking us towards progress?) There seems to be an obsession…

Recently a person from the field of science asked me to tell him about the purposes of science-art interactions and whether they are being achieved. So I went on to analyse science-art goals. According to me

Science-art has five main directions:

To communicate science accurately to a lay man  (1).

Art can also criticise and shine a new perspective on science. Science, after all, is a tool and how humanity uses it defines whether it improves our lives or makes it worse.…

These days Artists want to 'advance' science with art. I have seen several statements in this regard  from artists and their work proposals and sometimes even results too. Now judge for yourself what route they are taking and how much they are able to succeed.

I want to give here one story.

An artist says:

"What I do, is in the meeting and colaboration with the scientist, lay down a painting on the table and ask questions to the scientist about his research project. In the…

Interactive program for training in dioptical-bioptical perception

I participated with my patent 112061 OSIM Romania to:

Salon International des Inventions GENEVE (Switzerland) ;  12 aprilie 2000

I have proven my techniques and I was granted to a distinction.

Silver Medal (protocol) confirms

the jury of experts found that the method described in the patent corresponding

effects which I…

An article in this weeks Nature deals with emerging careers in Science art.

Although the article doesn't deal with many jobs and has several suggestions and says, one has to still identify the jobs as there is scope, it is a good article.

The article says: Collaborations offer career benefits including improved productivity as a result of a new perspective or a more creative outlook; bolstered communication and outreach skills; and contacts among artists, like-minded scientists…

 The RGBDToolkit invites you to imagine the future of filmmaking.  Repurposing the depth sensing camera from the Microsoft Kinect or Asus Xtion Pro as an accessory to your HD DSLR camera, the open source hardware and software captures and visualizes the world as mesmerizing wireframe forms. A CGI and video hybrid, the data can be rephotographed from any angle in post.

Recently, Zen, 5, gamely sat for an interview about drawing, paper airplanes, and…

Research Scholar

Research Scholar: An International Refereed e-Journal of Literary Explorations

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Call for Papers

Dear All,

I am…

(This blog is  based on a discussion between artists and scientists of which I am a participant of)

Artist:

If we photograph crystalline structures and superimpose the pictures on each other by projecting them onto a flat surface, the result is beautiful ornamental patterns...we see this in Egyptian art...Ornaments in art are what crystals are in nature. They are a form of art inwhich only vectors are used.

(Ref: The Necessity of Art, Ernst…

I have noticed six types of views from  different people on science-art interactions:

1.Artists that are into science-art and therefore follow it religiously and support it vehemently

2. Artists who are not into sci-art and therefore don't like it for various reasons ( I have already written on this)(Ref 1,2)

3. Scientists who are into science-art and therefore are largely biased towards it ( right now I am writing on this subject )

4. Scientists who are not convinced…

I've started doing a photography project that involves long exposures, and light and motion studies. I use an emulsion transfer process to transfer the image to printmaking paper or canvas and then paint on the image from there. So far, it's been a very satisfying project for me.

This is actually quite easy to do with almost any digital (or analog) camera that…

The science -art education models of India and the US - A study related to science advancement and communication:

They say the grass will always be greener on the other side of the fence. I feel this is true whenever I come across the debate on  STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)  and STEAM ( add arts for A) models of education. Want to know why? Read on....

In recent times science-art promoters in the West, especially in the US, are stressing the need for…

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I proposed some techniques related to composition of fine art

   belonging to the field of Science-Art

 For introduction see the links; 

2. Binocular rivalry and stereoscopy in bioptical art

3. Bioptical effects, definitions

12. Visual-sense-storming

 For documentation…

Artists keep asking me some questions regarding science and art interactions. I want to give replies to as many as I can. If anybody wants to ask more questions they are welcome to add them in the form of comments.

Q 1. An artist:

I know an artist in Oceania who makes his own paper from certain kinds of bark. He grinds rocks for color, one type of rock from each of four islands. His brush is actually dried seeds from the pandanus tree.

With all of this he does the most amazing…

For a list of critical art-sci references, and more, see the Cumulative Index for the journal Leonardo at:

www.leonardo.ingo/isast/journal/leolmjcumulativeindex.com

Here are a few examples starting from the bottom of the list:

Zet, Martin. "Snails" in Special Section "Art and Biology" Leonardo 31, No. 4. 1998

Wilson, Stephen. Review of Invisible Vision: Could…

This is an essay published in 2011 in Leonardo Reviews Quarterly. It considers the problematic legacy of C. P. Snow's idea of Two Cultures and revisits the work of John Steinbeck and Vladimir Nabakov as authors whose literary works were deeply informed by science while commenting more generally on the long history of art-sci interactions.…

A VIEW ON HOW SCIENTIFIC CREATIVITY DIFFERS FROM ARTISTIC CREATIVITY AND HOW ARTISTS CAN HELP SCIENCE and the people around if they want to BY CHANGING THEIR CREATIVE MECHANISMS

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best -- and therefore never scrutinize or question. -Stephen Jay Gould, paleontologist, biologist, author (1941-2002)

Scientists and artists are coming together very frequently these days because of the sci-art interactions. And as a keen observer of…