Plus a few comments I thoroughly enjoyed being interviewed by Indre Viskontas. By the end we resonated! I should just like to reply to a couple of points that emerged in her recap with Joe Hanson, a writer and host of the video series “It’s Okay to Be Smart.” Indre seems to have misunderstood what … Read more
Convergent Territories – Issue 3, July 2014 This issue explores cross-disciplinary practice and thinking and how this engages within the context of art, science, design and philosophy. Arthur I Miller discusses his latest book Colliding Worlds: How Cutting-Edge Science is Redefining Contemporary Art Richard Bright: Why are scientists so strongly attracted to visual images? Arthur … Read more
I met Ellen Levy for the first time in June 2014. She was in England researching a book on art and neuroscience and heard about the publication of Colliding Worlds. Having used my book Imagery in Scientific Thought in courses, Ellen had been acquainted with my work for some time and decided to contact me. … Read more
Palas y las Musas: diálogos entre la ciencia y el arte First International Congress 20-22 August 2014 Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas (CIMAT) Teatro Juárez Guanajuato Guanajuato, MEXICO
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
At Seymour, we’re fascinated by attempts to communicate the ineffable. Your new book Colliding Worlds explores the intersection of art and science and helps readers expand their definitions of each topic and “how both involve an intuitive feel for the beauty of the unseen.” Please give us a glimpse of your thoughts on this subject. … 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
Richard Taylor, the hero of this chapter, is a scientist whose research into fractals offered a way to authenticate paintings by Jackson Pollock. He believes that his scientific research may even reveal something deeper. “Perhaps it may even be able to throw a narrow beam of light into those dim corners of the mind where great paintings exert their power,” he told me (p. 173).
In this exciting TEDx lecture Taylor discusses what to him is the essential connection between art and science. […]