http://www.arthurimiller.com Welcome to the Website of Arthur I. Miller - to the universe of creativity Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:11:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.arthurimiller.com/2008/02/23/what-happens-when-art-and-science-come-together/#comment-2 Tom Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:49:18 +0000 http://www.arthurimiller.com/2008/02/23/what-happens-when-art-and-science-come-together/#comment-2 Is Art is the science of human expression? There is certainly a kind of "standing on the shoulders of giants" methodology to it; it does not stand for repetition, and there is often a well constructed argument behind the creation. Is Science the art of systematically consolidating information? Both have elements of consensus building, and creativity, and methodological constraint, and both can be subject to leaps of imagination. Perhaps you are correct and in the end artists might be able to manipulate visual images as if they were equations. The mathematical language we have constructed to allow us to conduct science is often seen as inaccessible. If computers can allow us to transcend the mathematics and work with accessible forms that anyone can manipulate, but that are constrained by the computer to maintain all that is already known about physical laws, then more people might be involved in the creative process. But will they understand their creations? Does that matter? Does this situation illustrate the distinction between the essence of Art and Science? Is Art is the science of human expression? There is certainly a kind of “standing on the shoulders of giants” methodology to it; it does not stand for repetition, and there is often a well constructed argument behind the creation. Is Science the art of systematically consolidating information? Both have elements of consensus building, and creativity, and methodological constraint, and both can be subject to leaps of imagination. Perhaps you are correct and in the end artists might be able to manipulate visual images as if they were equations. The mathematical language we have constructed to allow us to conduct science is often seen as inaccessible. If computers can allow us to transcend the mathematics and work with accessible forms that anyone can manipulate, but that are constrained by the computer to maintain all that is already known about physical laws, then more people might be involved in the creative process. But will they understand their creations? Does that matter? Does this situation illustrate the distinction between the essence of Art and Science?

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