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 – truly the new avant-garde. I call this movement “artsci.”
As renowned video artist Peter Weibel says, “Today, art is an offspring of science and technology.” It’s an extraordinary thought. Today’s cutting-edge art doesn’t just use science and technology. It is actually driven by it.
The earliest form of artsci, Biology-Influenced Art, investigates the body and the radical changes it is likely to undergo in the 21st century, as I discuss in my new book, Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art. […]
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