When Growing an Ear on Your Arm is Art Leonardo da Vinci made no distinction between art and science—and the two fields are converging again In 2007, the Australian performance artist Stelarc started growing an extra ear on his left arm through a series of operations that are still ongoing. The ear is actually made … Read more
“No one is more knowledgeable about the art/science relationship in all its complexities as Arthur Miller. So, when it comes to art/science – he’s the man and here’s the book.” Dan Falk and Amanda Gefter discuss Colliding Worlds on BookLab
Computers and algorithms of stunning power are the catalysts for a new art movement which fuses art with science and technology. There are naysayers who deny that this new avant-garde exists, but they are already marginal. Artists I interviewed told me, “What’s the big deal?” – This fusion is here already; “We’re it.” These artists … Read more
These Trippy Photos Show Art Colliding With Science Today’s most innovative artists are taking not paint and chisel but science and technology as their media, to represent nature both seen and unseen. They are creating works radically different from any that have ever gone before and that may even change our perceptions of the world … Read more
Art and science are not separated by misunderstandings or ignorance, they are separated by definition writes Bryan Appleyard in Literary Review In his review of Colliding Worlds in the Literary Review, Bryan Appleyard clearly states his position regarding my theme that art and science will fuse. He writes, “Perhaps the problem is that the very … Read more
“Miller is a physics Ph.D., a science historian, and a philosopher—and an art aficionado to boot. And in his new book, Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art, he makes the case for the existence of a ‘third culture’ […]” writes Indre Viskontas in Mother Jones (Magazine)
Artsci collaborations began in the vicinity of Fourth Avenue and East Tenth Street in the 1960s (pp. 33-54). This is where I am standing a half century later. At the time it was “a dilapidated area full of run-down tenements. It was Picasso’s Montmartre transported to New York. [It] quickly became the new Bohemia, the … Read more
Raymond Spillenger was a member of the high-octane assemblage of highly-talented and charismatic artists known collectively as the New School. Their era was the 1950s and 1960s. They lived and worked in the neighborhood of East 10th Street and Fourth Avenue in New York. The stars were Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Philip Guston, Robert … Read more