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🧬 🎨 ✨ The symbiotic liaison of Science & Art - 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗻𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗮? Check out the Blogpost I wrote together with Elisabeth Kugler 👇 🖋 In this blog we take a closer look at the age-old symbiosis between these two seemingly distinct fields, exploring how they enrich and inform each other in profound ways. 🌟 𝗛𝗶𝗴𝗵𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲: 💡 How can art lead to scientific discoveries and amplify their impact? 🔍 What parallels and synergies are there between the two disciplines? 🔬 Why should Scientists care for advancing their careers? There's some Da Vinci, some Ernst Haeckel, work from Janet Iwasa, and a little bit about our activities in this direction. 👉 Read the full text here: https://lnkd.in/g45u-Qae Thanks to Tullio Rossi, PhD and Animate Your Science for hosting us and giving such constructive feedback to the article 🙏 #ArtMeetsScience #ScienceCommunication #ScienceArt

"Art in science is more than an aesthetic choice; it's a strategic tool for innovation, effective communication and visibility in the research community." ~ Philipp Dexheimer, PhD and Elisabeth Kugler This article beautifully summarizes why Art&Science nurture each other. Thanks to the authors for giving such interesting insights into this topic!

How can art expand scientific inquiry? 🎨 🫱🏽🫲🏿 🔬 Watch #UncommonCollaborators Mark Baugh-Sasaki and Mehr Kumar discuss how they developed a new art installation on Stanford's campus to explore the impact of industrial whaling in the #SouthernOcean. Read more about the unveiling of the artwork and insights from a panel discussion moderated by Kim Beil with Mark Baugh-Sasaki, Mehr Kumar, Hideo Mabuchi, and Rob Jackson on the intersections of art and science ➡️ bit.ly/497sMHn Like, share, and subscribe on YouTube 📺 https://lnkd.in/guFNYayR

Unleashing creativity! Thrilled to share this show-stopping design for our Science Exhibition, where art and innovation collide. Behold, a mesmerizing black-and-white sketch of the words "Science Exhibition" transformed into a work of art. Each letter is a masterclass in creativity, featuring: Intricate geometric patterns that evoke the precision of science Skulls that hint at the mysteries of the unknown Vines that represent growth and exploration And other imaginative shapes that add a touch of surrealism This design embodies the spirit of scientific inquiry, curiosity, and a hint of edginess. Take a closer look and discover the secrets hidden within! #Throwback2017 #SzabistLarkana #ScienceExhibition #ArtMeetsScience #CreativityUnleashed"

Wow! The volume of dark matter in the universe is almost directly proportional to the volume of dark "unstructured" data in the modern organisation (80%). An uncanny coincidence? Apparently, invisible universe dark matter is made up of WIMPs (watch the video for an explanation). If you'd like to discover what your organisation's dark data comprises then infoboss can help you get understanding and value from this data. Let's talk at #bigdataldn stand X221. George Firican I know you love this kind of thing, perhaps WIMPs could be a new word in the data lexicon. 😂

Ahead of the Generative Art Summit in Berlin, Ernest Edmonds shares insights into his journey from mathematics to pioneering computer art. Join us to explore his innovative fusion of logic and creativity! 🖥️🎨 #GenerativeArt #ComputerArt"

✨Join us for the DRN and ECRN Summer Symposium. We are excited to bring you a day of activities at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. 1 July 2024 10am – 6pm Ikon Gallery This year the conference theme is “Precarity in Art History: Thinking with the Discipline’s Past, Present and Future”. Free tickets: https://lnkd.in/edPWFmYb The challenges in art history are urgent, as the discipline faces an existential crisis due to recent developments in the sector. This call for papers framed the crisis through three interrelated developments: The first is the context of academic precarity within the sector. Precarity is a condition that currently shapes the discipline, particularly for the work done by doctoral and early-career researchers. It entrenches existing social inequalities and is connected to recent efforts to manufacture “culture wars” which is exacerbating and intensifying marginalisation. Second is changes in funding for the arts and heritage sector across the UK. This symposium will take place in Birmingham, a city which is facing a complete cut to council funding for the arts over the next two years (source). A similar situation exists for other local authorities and councils across the UK. Third is the brutal reality of conflict and genocide around the world, and the notable component of targeted “scholasticide” alongside the wholesale destruction of educational, religious and heritage sites and archival records. With these developments and challenges in mind, this symposium will seek to explore the ways in which we can both navigate precarity in our work as art historians, whilst also historicising the way that precarity has shaped the production of art across periods assist us with the challenges of the present. The schedule for the day will include paper sessions, breakout workshops, a keynote, work-in-progress roundtables and opportunities to meet fellow doctoral and early-career researchers. We will also host a drinks reception, enabling conversations to continue. More details of the schedule will be released in the coming weeks. #conference #historyofart #arthistory #ikon

An innovative new collaboration between the arts and sciences has been established among the faculty at Franklin—and the National Science Foundation (NSF) has recently awarded a five-year grant to support it. Associate Professor of Graphic Design Moon Jung Jang and Professor of Mathematics David Gay originally met through the UGA Arts Collaborative, a catalyst for creative interdisciplinary projects. Jang’s research in parsing visual languages for multiple narratives fits closely with the knotted diagrams from Gay’s research in the field of topology. GROVI (Geometry, Research, Outreach and Visualization Initiative), an umbrella for creative projects centered around mathematics and design, is supported by a five-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Geometry and Topology group. “Our collaborations aim to uncover memorable expressions to reach more audiences,” said Jang. 🔗 Read more: https://lnkd.in/eptcBd_i

At PASS - Centre for Practice-based Art Studies (https://pass.ku.dk/), we look forward to gathering everyone interested in the next session of Implications, a reading seminar where we each time read an entire book of interest and relevance to the study of visual and artistic phenomena from a broad perspective. As always, we emphasise that it is not a prerequisite for participation that you have read the entire proposed book - if you can only get through an introduction or a conclusion, that's fine too. Let us know if you're coming: We serve tea, coffee and water and guarantee an academic, curious and enlightening discussion, with an emphasis throughout on how the books we read can be applied to the work we each do, whether inside or outside academia. We next meet on Wednesday 27 November at South Campus (formerly KUA), Karen Blixens Vej 1, room 21.3.04. (3rd floor, at the end of the corridor), at 13-16. And we read Tina M. Campts small but important book ‘Listening to Images’. In ‘Listening to Images’ (2017), Campt explores the transformative potential of photography, looking beyond the more limited understanding of images as mere visual objects. Through a nuanced and in my opinion really innovative framework, she introduces the concept or metaphor of ‘listening’ to photographs (and images in general) and suggests that images have a sonic dimension that reveals deeper meanings when approached beyond visual analysis. Campt's overall thesis is that photographs, especially those representing marginalised and oppressed communities, have a vibrational resonance - a set of low-frequency signals or ‘quiet frequencies’ - that speak to and about stories, struggles and affective experiences that are often overlooked. She argues that by listening to these vibrations, we can access the power of images to articulate alternative histories and counter-narratives, especially for those, in her book particularly black people, who have historically been invisibilised or misrepresented in visual archives. We will discuss this and more on the 27th. Everyone is welcome!

Science and Art intersect through research and development by blending discovery and creativity. Co-teaching this amazing course this January.