One can only work productively with those with whom some basic ethics and
world views are shared, though it is also good to have ones own world view
challenged. there are scientists out there who are well aware of the limits
of science, yet at the same time who want to explore those limits. There is
a trajectory in cosmology that seeks to account for consciousness as an
intrinsic part of its world picture. John Wheeler, Fritjof Capra, David
Bohm, Roger Penrose are/were leading exponents of this.
There are scientists who are intensely aware of the deep historical
relationships between art, science and philosophy, e.g. mathematics and
music, painting and optics, relativity and cubism etc. When knowledge of
these fundamental relationships between the domains is present science and
art can be in a mutual space of shared enquiry, where the working together
is more than the artist illustrating the scientific knowledge, or the
scientist helping the artist come up with technical solutions to their work
(though these are not to be discounted as they can be mutually beneficial)
The ica runs or used to run a scientist in residence programme.
Neuroscientist Daniel Glaser from UCL did this in 2003
Simeon
on 3/11/09 9:56 AM, Michael Day <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Simon, & list,
>
> I realise that what I'm about to write underlines the "two cultures" idea
> that we're trying
> to get away from in this debate, but I'm still curious about how
> interdisciplinary
> collaborations are viewed from the non-art end of the partnership. While
> artists and
> curators will read scientific outcomes through the filters appropriate to
> the reading of art,
> how are such hybrid practices understood and interpreted by scientists? Do
> they stand up
> to scientific scrutiny? Is the quality of the science as important as the
> quality of the art in
> such collaborations? And, importantly, what bearing does this have on
> curatorial agendas?
>
> I'm also interested in the power dialogue enacted in the process of
artists
> embedding
> themselves in scientific environments. Are scientists (aside from perhaps
> anthropologists)
> as interested in embedding themselves in artistic environments?
>
> With best wishes,
> m
>
> Michael Day
> e: [log in to unmask]
> w: www.michaelday.org.uk
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