Science Meets Art

Description

This book explores collaboration between artists and scientists and examines the ways in which scientific data and research findings can be communicated, translated and transformed using the techniques of contemporary art and information technology. Contemporary art forms―including installation, sculpture, painting, computer-based art, Internet art and interactive electronic artworks―are able to provide new and creative outlets, with expanded audiences, for scientific research. The book, which features 75 illustrations of works created as a result of art–science collaboration between scientists and artists, is important in the field because it presents a thorough account of the collaboration through the eyes of a leading creative practitioner and a leading cultural theorist. It contains a wide range of in-detail examples of successful collaborative works that illustrate the breadth and depth of contemporary interdisciplinary creative-research approaches. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1: A Brief History of Science/Art Renaissance Art–Science Enlightenment Science Romantic Art–Science Twentieth Century Art–Science Twenty-First Century SciArt Chapter 2: Artists Working with Science Sonification Residencies More Art–Science Works Chapter 3: Environmental Science Meets Art Environmentalism/Climate Change Science Ecological Aesthetics Chapter 4: Culturescape: Environment, Science, and Art at Bundanon A Brief Environmental History of Bundanon Footprints and Fingerprints Interactive Environment Data Beneath Your Feet Four Environmental Artworks Chapter 5: Heavy Metal: Painting and Chemistry Land, Minerals, Contamination: Heavy Metal Heavy Metal: Image and Sound Chapter 6: Genemusik In the Beginning: GeneMusiK First Encounters Memory Machines Memory and Site GeneMusiK—Over the Rainbow: Prototype No. 2 Conclusion Eine Kleine GeneMusiK: Prototype No. 1 Chapter 7: Waterworks BioLogging and Under the IceCap Geography and Species BioLogging—Retrofit VoxAura; The River Sings Sonus Maris Chapter 8: Insects Part 1: Oratorio for a Million Souls Creative Challenges: The Oratorios Creative Challenges: The Musical Scores Legacy Part 2: Host Part 3: Float like a Butterfly; Sting like a Bee Swarming and the Future of Conflict Chemistry Reframing the Bee: Sentience Reframing the Bee Reframing the Bee, Political and Social Metaphor and the Post-Human Reframing the Bee, Morphology Reframing the Bee, Instrumentalisation The Artist and the Bee End Note Chapter 9: Sounds of Science Sounds of the Brain: 5.06 am Walking in Augmented Reality—SonicLandscapes and the AudioNomad Conceptual Origins Syren: Some Detail Logistical and Conceptual Challenges Teleportation and Other Worlds Theorem at the Paul Scherrer Laboratory Conclusion End Note Conclusion Bibliography Index