Amy Ione argues that neurological studies are of more value when they do not try to “solve” art but rather are a part of how we enlarge our understanding of the creative process. Full article: http://www.leoalmanac.org/index.php/lea/entry/art_and_the_brain_what_does_the_evidence_tell_us/
http://www.nature.com/news/the-chimpanzee-who-sees-sounds-1.9541 \ Interesting paper in Nature: The chimpanzee with synaesthesia “The finding hints that chimps, like humans, experience some form of synaesthesia, an uncommon condition in which the senses become intertwined, says Vera Ludwig, a cognitive neuroscientist at Charité Medical University in Berlin, Germany, who led a study published this week in Proceedings of the …
Historical Opinion by Frieder Nake Art in the Time of the Artificial Frieder Nake looks at how information and the computer have opened up the discourse on aesthetics, reality, and the nature of art.
We propose to develop here some kind of breakdown of the different kinds of art science collaboration as an aid to analysis, while recognising that this set of categories is not ‘orthogonal’ and many projects involve several types. W also seek to collect other examples of categories of art science developed by other authors. This …
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WHAT IS THE GOAL OF ART-SCI : ?? INTEGRATION ? the THIRD CULTURE ARGUMENT ? SEVERAL GOALS ? In response to one of the discussions Drew made a comment, below, that the “goal of Art Sci is integration” Is this really the goal ? Integration of what ? the arts and sciences ? institutionally ? …
Issue: How to put together traditional peer review or selection committees to evaluate and rank Art Science Proposals In the discussions so far, an issue has come up repeatedly of the problem of how to “select for funding’ art science proposals Typically panels are composed of experts who have established their pre-eminence in given discipline …
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re the upcoming NSF NEA Re/Search: Art, Science, and Information Technology workshop One of the arguments for promoting art-science collaboration is that it can result in unexpected technological innovation that is useful to society One way of documenting this kind of outcome is by identifying patents filed by the art-science teams I dont want to …
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Click HERE for a draft of the scientific reference list related to art and cognitive/neuroscience. The list also includes links to reports and general references in the art/sci field
List as of Aug 29 2010 We are compiling quotes from (preferably living) famous scientists and research engineers that articulate the case why scientists collaborations with the arts and humanities are beneficial to science and engineering. Send contributions to Amy Ione at amy.ione.2 [at] gmail [dot] com. The list is HERE.
Nature Supplement: Artists on science: scientists on art (Vol. 434, No. 7031 pp293-324) at http://www.nature.com/nature/supplements/collections/artistsonscience/