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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 about the merits of science-art and are very skeptical about it ( am writing on this too)
5. Journalists who want to increase the sales of their journals/magazines/papers and therefore spin, twist and exaggerate things (and bore me a lot)
6. The man on the street who is confused all about it because so many views pull him on all the directions!
As a neutral observer ( yes, I try to detach myself from all this as much as possible ) , I find all this drama very amusing but still I will have to put all these views across on my network which serves as a journal for a very balanced view.
I think we should concentrate more on skeptics in both the fields and address their concerns first. And of course , it is more important to remove the confusion of the layman, not add to it by complicating things.
To tell you a secret, when I am with my skeptic scientist friends, I support science-art interactions - but by putting only the points I find correct from a critical analysis - so much that they get annoyed and tease me and ask me to leave science and go to the field of art if I love it so much! They think I am biased towards it!
Artists think I am biased towards science!
Now what should I do? Smile, smile, smile and smile! :) :)

References:

1. http://www.fastcodesign.com/3025245/asides/jane-austen-game-theoris...

2. http://www.newrepublic.com/article/116170/jane-austen-game-theorist...  Using science to explain art is a good way to butcher both

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Comment by Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa on August 6, 2013 at 6:09am

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Comment by Steven Faivus on April 19, 2013 at 2:29am

I too have encountered many attitudes towards this work. I believe it is beyond human perspective, nature and science and the arts is. An interesting perspective is artists who want to promote arts for arts sake in the schools, thus are weary or against the "cute little" work of mixing science and the arts. Another interesting perspective is that science, in dissecting the flower, destroys its beauty.  Richard Feynman said the opposite, that science is the best subject for the arts today... I have been working on developing science arts integration method and materials for over twenty years and have interesting stories to share with you. 

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