Dear List
Further to Simons very useful set of problems in art - science
curriclums I am presenting ideas on potential art science interactions
to my faculty tomorrow and though I have some good of material I
would like to have some iconic and inspirational examples of art
influencing science like the Kenneth Snelson sculpture that Melinda
provided the link for.
I am aware of the interplay between mathematics, relativity and cubism
one hundred years ago and also the fact that E. A. Poe came up with a
theory of the big bang in the 1850's
http://www.metanexus.net/magazine/ArticleDetail/tabid/68/id/10907/Default.aspx
I anything comes to mind please let me know before 12 tomorrow!
best wishes
Simeon
On 16 Nov 2009, at 22:20, nina czegledy wrote:
> Dear Simon,
>
> thanks for articulating these questions, these are the very
> "burning issues" we try to address at the international
> Leonardo Education Forum meetings/workshops.
> nina
>
>
>
>
>> Science curriculums for artists and art curriculums for scientists.
>>
>> We (at eca) have been discussing these sorts of issues for a while.
>> How
>> would you design an interdisciplinary studies programme? How would
>> you
>> employ creative practices as the connective tissue between
>> disciplines that,
>> at least in academia, rarely connect to one another?
>>
>> Beyond these questions, how would you resource a programme of study
>> and
>> research that, by definition, will change its shape and focus as the
>> students come and go? How do you ensure it remains motile and open
>> to new
>> connections? How do you broker the agreements between departments and
>> faculties that allow the necessary resources to be available when
>> the lead
>> times will, again by definition, be very short? How do you convince
>> silo-ists protective of their ever diminishing resources to share
>> what they
>> have left?
>>
>> If I knew the answers to this second set of questions then eca
>> would be the
>> place you would go to find those arts curricula for scientists and
>> science
>> curricula for artists. Other mash-ups would ideally be on the
>> changing
>> day-menu as well.
>>
>> It's still just an idea though...
>>
>> Simon
>>
>>
>> Simon Biggs
>>
>> Research Professor
>> edinburgh college of art
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>>
>> Creative Interdisciplinary Research into CoLlaborative Environments
>> CIRCLE research group
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>>
>>
>> From: erich <[log in to unmask]>
>> Reply-To: erich <[log in to unmask]>
>> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:46:40 +0200
>> To: <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Fwd: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Art-
>> Science and
>> Science-Art Curricula: Call for Contributions
>>
>> hi armin,
>>
>>> thanks for bringing up this point about what (most) scientists think
>>> about art. I did not mention this as I was trying to limit my rant.
>>
>> well we should not start a scientist bashing.
>> the conclusion of my experience is just that one can not expect a
>> scientist knowing more then the average about art just because s/he
>> is a scientist, its nothing i want to hold against scientists.
>> when working there at the research station it just caught me in a
>> moment
>> of surprise.
>>
>> i would like to speculate and turn it around as well: we can not
>> expect
>> an artist to know more then average about science just because s/he
>> is
>> an artist.
>>
>>> so to close the art science gap, maybe what is needed is an art
>>> curriculum for scientists focusing on contemporary critical
>>> practices
>> and what about a science curriculum for artists ?
>>
>> best
>>
>> erich
>>
>>
>> Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland,
>> number SC009201
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