Index
1 Introduction to the Art-Science Symbiosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2 Challenges for the Sciences and the Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1 Challenges in the World of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2 New Ways of Understanding Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3 Challenges in the World of the Arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.4 Why Integrate Art and Science? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5 A Point of Encounter: Both Art and Science Rely on Metaphors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
3 The Diversity of Art-Science Integrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.1 Beginnings and Expansions of the Relationship Between the Arts and Sciences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
3.2 An Analytical Framework for Understanding Art-Science Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
3.3 Different Categories of Art-Science Manifestations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
4 Selected Art-Science Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.1 Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
4.2 Art-Scientist, Selected Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
4.3 Art-Science Work Descriptions by Their Authors . . . . 67
4.3.1 Immersion of the Henri Poincare Institute in the R3/Z3 Space. Pierre Berger, Vincent Martial and Jimena Royo-Letelier, 2017 . . . . 67
4.3.2 Evolvable Yeast Automaton. Jean-Baptiste Boule, Nicolas Desprat and Philippe Parreno, 2016 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
4.3.3 That Which Lives in Me. Dmitry Bulatov and Alexey Chebykin, 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
4.3.4 Formata. Non-terrestrial, Kinetic and Autonomous Agents. PЯOTO-ALIEИ PЯOJECT, 2020–2023. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
4.3.5 Kolam. Shanthi Chandrasekar, 2021 . . . . . . . 78
4.3.6 Harmonic Dissonance: Brains and Bodies Dancing Together at the Interface of Art and Science. Matthias Oostrik, Suzan Tunca, Than Van Nispen, and Suzanne Dikker, 2018–2023 (Ongoing) . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
4.3.7 Nomadic Plant, Gilberto Esparza. 2008–2013. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
4.3.8 Integrative Illustration of Cells and Viruses. David Goodsell, 2020 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
4.3.9 Blood Wars. Kathy High, 2010–2011 . . . . . . 89
4.3.10 Impulse. Yunchul Kim, 2018 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
4.3.11 Microbiome Rebirth Incubator. Francois-Joseph Lapointe and Marianne Cloutier, 2016–2023 . . . . . . . . 97
4.3.12 Plastic Is Land. Max Liboiron, 2018 . . . . . . . 100
4.3.13 Primate Cinema: Apes as Family. Rachel Mayeri, 2011 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
4.3.14 Creatures. Andro Montoya Riveros, 2008 . . . 106
4.3.15 Solar Displacement. Spela Petrič, 2014 . . . . 110
4.3.16 Green, Grey or Dull Silver. Perdita Phillips, 2007–2008 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
4.3.17 Inhabiting a Map. Michail Rybakov, 2018 . . . 117
4.3.18 Bee’s. Susana Soares, 2007–2009 . . . . . . . . . 121
4.3.19 Crocheted Hyperbolic Planes. Daina Taimina, 2009–2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
4.3.20 Living Architectures, Manuel Thery. 2008, 2013 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
4.3.21 Labor. Paul Vanouse, 2019 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
4.3.22 Neuroportraits. Nicholas Wade, 2011–2012 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
4.4 Biographies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
5 Capturing the Insights Behind the Selected Art-Science Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
5.1 Motivation to Engage in Art-Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
5.2 Scientic Topics and Lines of Research . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
5.3 Materiality and Artistic Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
5.4 Differences Between Artistic and Scientic Approaches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151
5.5 Art-Science Synthesis: Its Meaning and Implications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
6 Action Points and Perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
6.1 Work on Your Own Art-Science Project . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
6.2 Current Art-Science Initiatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
6.3 Postgraduate Programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167