What is the common ground between art and science? And how is Beethoven like Darwin?

Novelist Ian McEwan and theoretical physicist Nima Arkani-Hamed met at the Science Museum in London to mark the opening of the Large Hadron Collider exhibition. This is an edited extract of their conversation. Go to the article


"There is an obsessive element to it which should be familiar to the artist – to many people in society. And it's driven by the pursuit of something much, much bigger than ourselves and the little trivial concerns of everyday life." NA-H

"I would like to feel that we could think about science as just one more aspect of organised human curiosity rather than as a special compartment. And it has, as has been very clear from this discussion, a powerful aesthetic. I think we need to generalise it. We need to absorb it into our sense that we can love the music of Beethoven without being composers and we could love science as a celebration of human ingenuity without being scientists." IM

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Martha Kearney and Ian McEwan at London's Science Museum Photograph: Jennie Hills/Science Museum



"This is one of the wonderful things about fundamental physics. The essential ideas are simple. The possible answers to essential open questions are more complicated but the essential issues are deep and they're simple to state. And with some patience it's possible to address them head on and get a sense for what's going on without all the details of the mathematics. But it requires a very engaged audience and it can't be done casually." NA-H

Nima Arkani-Hamed, Martha Kearney and Ian McEwan at London's Science Museum Photograph: Jennie Hills/Science Museum

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/nov/17/art-science-ian-mcewan-nima-arkani-hamed

Science is beautiful !!!

 beautifulchemistry.net

Beautiful Chemistry is a project collaboration between the Institute of Advanced Technology at the University of Science and Technology of China and Tsinghua University Press. The goal of this project is to bring the beauty of chemistry to the general public through digital media and technology.

[macro]biologies II: organisms at ArtLaboratoryBerlin!

On show until July 20th at ArtLaboratoryBerlin!

[macro]biologies II: organisms

works by: Suzanne Anker (US), Brandon Ballengée (US) und Maja Smrekar (SI).

http://artlaboratory-berlin.org/home.htm

innovateheritage.com open-call

http://innovateheritage.com/participation/open-call/

Open Call for working professionals, scholars and artists dealing with intersecting or overlapping aspects of Arts and Heritage.

Deadline for Applications: January 31, 2014

Through lectures, panel discussions, exhibitions, performances, screenings and workshops, Innovate Heritage provides a platform to explore relationships and foster dialogue, promote creative approaches to theoretical and practical issues, and to enhance collaboration between the arts and heritage.
Based out of the World Heritage Studies program at the Brandenburgische Technische Universität (BTU) Cottbus, Germany, the function of this conference is to jump from a foundational knowledge base of UNESCO World Heritage into an expanded, tactile, and exploratory perspective, looking at the subtexts of heritage in collaboration with the arts.
While the arts and heritage are both connected within the cultural sector, a strong trans/interdisciplinary approach is needed in order to further examine the shared values and elements of each in imagination, innovation, and processes of constructing cultural identity.

Topics include but are not restricted to:

• Connections between arts and heritage in constructing cultural identity
• Folk arts as cultural heritage in relation to contemporary arts/design (living intangible heritage and community intellectual property rights)
• Topographies of heritage (literature, poetry, music and other creative interpretive landscapes)
• Contemporary reinterpretations of cultural and natural heritage in arts
• The power of performance and arts in addressing and healing uncomfortable/colonial heritage
• Power, aesthetic and interpretation (what art or heritage is considered valuable, and by whom?)
• Contemporary art & sustainable development
• Creative industries, arts & heritage

AlloSphere

The power of working together!

Esteban Lisa por José Jiménez

Exposicion

Esteban Lisa (1895-1893) en España: "(...) Reúne 149 piezas, en su gran mayoría pinturas al óleo siempre de pequeño formato y realizadas sobre cartón y papel, y también un importante conjunto de documentos: libros y fotografías, que permite acceder a sus distintos registros. Esas pequeñas piezas pictóricas son toda una delicia: un trabajo expresivo casi de laboratorio, en el que uno aprecia de forma casi inmediata los juegos y desplazamientos de puntos y líneas sobre los planos de los que hablaba Vasily Kandinsky, cuya figura es en mi opinión el auténtico eje al que responde con sus ecos personales la pintura de Lisa. (...)"
"ESENCIALISMO PICTÓRICO", nueva entrada en el blog, CUERPO Y TIEMPO:
http://www.josejimenezcuerpoytiempo.blogspot.com.es/

Symphonie Cinétique

‘It’s been interesting to write a dance piece for non-humans,’ says musician Ólafur Arnalds of Symphonie Cinétique, a kinetic composition that unites sound and motion. The project is the result of collaboration between the Icelandic musician and Joachim Sauter of Art+Com.
Symphonie Cinétique is composed of five kinetic works that explores digital technology in art, design, science and technology. The team employed various technologies in pieces that often explore soft, fluid movement driven by hardware. Frequently inspired by science – natural versus artificial and animate versus inanimate – the designers sometimes embed their work with hidden messages and codes.

http://www.artcom.de/en/projects/project/detail/symphonie-cinetique-the-poetry-of-motion

More at  Made, or better, during Berlin Art Week, which runs from 17 to 22 September, 2013.