Following the responses by David and Gill to Peter's message,
a very brief indication of what a real integrated project might be:
Space is created by relationships and the things that happen,
it's not a container existing outside events
(See Smolin "Three Roads to Quantum Gravity", where the same idea
appears in theoretical physics)
Artists create, explore and represent space.
Scientists have recently (within last 100 years) found a number of new
approaches to space. These approaches are very little known among artists
but could well inform how artists think about/create/represent space.
For example: qualitative spatial reasoning in artificial intelligence;
work on spatial ontology at the philosophy/computer science interface;
Poston's still unexploited "tolerance geometry"; digital geometry
and topology and lots more.
In the other direction scientists' notions of space can be informed by
new ways of dealing with space among artists.
See also Doreen Massey's work in geography
e.g. http://www.qmw.ac.uk/poffice/dmsmith181104.shtml
I agree very strongly with David's point about integrated projects in
contrast with art illustrating science (the illustrations are often
wonderful as images, but that doesn't mean they address concerns in
contemporary art)
I do have one EPSRC funded project "Spatiality in Design" starting
in January but that has more of a design focus and am also involved in one
of the Culture and Creativity projects, but am very interested in
more exploration of spatial ideas in an integrated context. I see the
interest being more in the concepts than any computer implementation
(the science angle might be more mathematics and philosophy than computer
science).
John Stell
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