Colleagues,
We are living in an interesting time of unstable vocabularies, sometimes an indicator of a growing successful community of practice .This is true of only because new terminologies are the bread and butter of funding agencies and reputation management strategies of emerging professionals. Electronic Art, Digital Art, new Media Art, Art and Technology, STEM to STEAM, STARTS, ArtScience, Sci Art the list goes on. Joao Silveira, member of our ArtSciLab at UT Dallas will be defending next week in Rio de Janeiro his PhD thesis on art science practices today in Brazil, the US and elsewhere.
This contemporary dichotomy in western, and other, academic and industry circles is often articulated between science-engineering and art-humanities. At the time of the founding of Leonardo Journal, this was very much within the framing provided by C.P.Snow’s articulation of the ‘two cultures’ problem.The problem persists today, although I argue that the two cultures framing is a false dichotomy and I think C.P.Snow did a disservice and was wrong in many ways. This false dichotomy can take different forms; for example, hard and soft, quantitative and qualitative, logical and creative, objective and subjective, and so on. Many of these are false, or oversimplifying, dichotomies or reductionist thinking that have lessened our human ability to solve complex problems. These dichotomies are not new. As pointed out by Joe Davis (Leonardo Journal, 2018 in press), the roman polymath Marcus Vitruvius Pollio advocated many of the holistic approaches being debated today. Joe Davis is a pioneering art and biology artist, currently using CRISPR and other genetic engineering techniques to create artificial life art forms. Joe Davis notes that Leonardo Da Vinci himself read and was influenced by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio.
So what’s new under the sun ?
In this talk at IBM Almaden research labs we will try to take stock, talk about our own work and articulate what we think is usefully developing:
Preliminary Announcement for talk by Malina at Blanton at IBM Almaden research labs March 8 2018
IBM Accelerated Discovery Lab Distinguished Speaker Forum.
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Date:March 8, 2018
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Venue: Accelerated Discovery Lab, IBM Research – Almaden
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Time: 10.00 – 11.30 AM PST
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