Information Request -- Books and Articles on Museums and Galleries
Dear All,
I'd like to nominate one of our hard working, self sacrificing, and generally
super all rounder webmasters to Aacorn--17 year old Ross Churchley, John's son.
I'm not sure how many of you know it, but Ross has provided much of the
technical know-how and programming for our website. He's also done a lot with
the graphic design and the overall organizational design. Without Ross'
efforts, there would be a mere shadow of a site (or probably none at all).
Here is a little bit of a bio that Ross sent me (which I think is really
wonderful):
"I am an a student of theoretical physics
and I hope to one day be a researcher and professor in the subject. I am also an
amateur digital photographer, graphics and web designer, and a tinkerer in
general. This year I am attending high school in Kamloops as well as some
university courses part-time at Thompson Rivers University.
My scientific
experience is largely aesthetic: to me, the math of physics is just another art
form, a way of expressing and exploring the beauty of the universe. One of my
best examples of physics as an art is that of mixing coloured liquids in a glass
jar. The artist might take a deep look the jar and be incredibly moved by the
swirls and colours of the mingling waters; he or she would want to express this
feeling, and try to capture the colours and light in a painting, perhaps, or the
shape and movement of the liquids in a form of dance. In the same way, the
physicist looks at the jar and tries to express the beauty in his or her own
way, trying to capture the complexity of the fluids in a similar cascade of
equations, while at the same time expressing its underlying simplicity. Leaves
blowing in the wind, the sight of the northern lights on a dark night... almost
every phenomena in the universe is an aesthetic experience waiting to happen to
a scientist, like it is with any other artist.
Perhaps these two
viewpoints, art and science, could together also make contributions to the study
of organizations and of the phenomena of human interaction. Like the liquids in
the jar, people and relationships between people have many different facets, and
many different angles from which they can be viewed. The evolution of both
systems, jar and organization, are nearly impossible to predict beforehand, but
with the help of both creative realms, art and science, they can be interpreted
and explored."