The author explores the use of tridimensional filamentous fungi patterns to produce biopaintings. The painting process involves incorporation of food dyes into a fungi growth medium. Then, after some ...biochemical processes, the fungal forms are dehydrated and immobilized in polyester resin. Changes in colors and texture occur, resulting in lively images.
The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and
its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the
biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in
applying ...scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In
this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these questions by
exploring key areas where Darwinism, neuroscience, and art history
intersect.
Taking a scientific approach to understanding art has led to
novel and provocative ideas about its origins, the basis of
aesthetic experience, and the nature of research into art and the
humanities. Rampley's inquiry examines models of artistic
development, the theories and development of aesthetic response,
and ideas about brain processes underlying creative work. He
considers the validity of the arguments put forward by advocates of
evolutionary and neuroscientific analysis, as well as its value as
a way of understanding art and culture. With the goal of bridging
the divide between science and culture, Rampley advocates for wider
recognition of the human motivations that drive inquiry of all
types, and he argues that our engagement with art can never be
encapsulated in a single notion of scientific knowledge.
Engaging and compelling, T he Seductions of Darwin is a
rewarding look at the identity and development of art history and
its complicated ties to the world of scientific thought.
The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life ...sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in art and visual culture, with a special emphasis on museums. Engaging with celebrated cases of vanished species such as the quagga and the thylacine as well as less well-known examples of animals and plants, these essays explore how representations of recent and ancient extinctions help advance scientific understanding and speak to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.
The surge of evolutionary and neurological analyses of art and its effects raises questions of how art, culture, and the biological sciences influence one another, and what we gain in applying ...scientific methods to the interpretation of artwork. In this insightful book, Matthew Rampley addresses these questions by exploring key areas where Darwinism, neuroscience, and art history intersect.
Taking a scientific approach to understanding art has led to novel and provocative ideas about its origins, the basis of aesthetic experience, and the nature of research into art and the humanities. Rampley’s inquiry examines models of artistic development, the theories and development of aesthetic response, and ideas about brain processes underlying creative work. He considers the validity of the arguments put forward by advocates of evolutionary and neuroscientific analysis, as well as its value as a way of understanding art and culture. With the goal of bridging the divide between science and culture, Rampley advocates for wider recognition of the human motivations that drive inquiry of all types, and he argues that our engagement with art can never be encapsulated in a single notion of scientific knowledge.
Engaging and compelling, T he Seductions of Darwin is a rewarding look at the identity and development of art history and its complicated ties to the world of scientific thought.
GeneMusiK is an artistic project that puts into play ideas about the capacity of physical morphologies to act as mnemonic systems by using DNA to transcode and remix musical structures. The project ...suggests that both biological and cultural information can function as both macro-
and micro-scale structures arrayed at physical loci to create topologies which function as keys to the mapping of memory.
A dual exploration of scales both massive and minuscule has allowed the author to create artworks and experiments that combine cultures of microscopic organisms and data from space probes and ...planetary landers. Meanwhile, a gradual increase in the author's laboratory practice has led to a familiarity with in vitro processes and a corresponding theoretical examination of their significance and place in the cultural milieu. Central to these developments in the author's practice has been the emergence of notions and understandings of simulation theory that unify both nature-technology relationships and ongoing work with organic and living materials. The author describes his artistic experiments with hybrid ecosystems, robotics, artificial intelligence, space exploration and astrobiology and the threads and themes that have persisted throughout them.
The attributes that characterize the compelling world-view of Philip Galanter's Complexism constitute a rich array that spans complexity theory, biological systems, cybernetics, computation and the ...phenomenology of affect. An ever-growing movement of transdisciplinary artists
who engage and synthesize the unique combination of fields, theories and practices associated with Complexism suggests that this model - particularly its embrace of complexity theory - holds promise in the problem space of art and science. This article examines three contemporary
artists and their collaborative teams, each of whose work embodies a unique attitude and synthesizing model that expresses the ethos of Complexism. Their work arguably contributes to a higher synthesis of modernism and postmodernism and the coalescence of art and science through the progression
of ideas that emerge from this union in direct correspondence to the larger culture. Furthermore, they do so through the embrace of evolutionary and generative processes, connectionist networks, and participatory practices that engender new discourse about contemporary life, moving us beyond
the space of postmodernity.
Designers and artists have always looked to nature for inspiration and materials, but only recently have they been able to alter and incorporate living organisms in their work. In a world with finite ...resources and a growing population, design that mimics or appropriates the sustainable template of nature is likely to prove as vital as it is novel. 'Bio Design' examines some seventy projects (concepts, prototypes and completed designs) that cover the fields of architecture, industrial processes, education, fine art, material engineering and bioengineering. Each project is illustrated by a short text, images and captions that combine to explain the problems the venture tackles, and how living materials and processes were harnessed to solve them in sustainable and aesthetically pleasing ways. Many of the solutions also provoke thought about manipulating life for human ends.
An artist and a biologist have collaborated on the sonification of protein data to produce the audio compact disc "Life Music." Here they describe the process by which this collaboration merges ...scientific knowledge and artistic expression to produce soundscapes from the basic building blocks of life. The soundscapes may be encountered as aesthetic experiences, as scientific inquiries or as both. The authors describe the rationale both for the artistic use of science and for the scientific use of art from the separate viewpoints of artist and scientist.
