This book has been really useful in narrowing down my concepts, and I've been selecting some quotes from it, here are a few of the most relevant.
"As we look at the two images we entertain the notion that both science and art are essentially ordering activities, part of the universal human inclination to find, expose and celebrate the world’s structures and patterns. Even more fundamentally, they gesture towards the fact that both art and science are expressions of a common intellectual curiosity – the profound human desire to know things which often starts with the possibility of envisioning and therefore of making a picture of them."
"Viewing scientific images we are perhaps confronted - sometimes more vividly than we are through conventional artworks – with a sense of our own impermanence and fragility, where our consciousness of boundary an identity and scale is displaced."
"All this evidence points to something much more profound than mere illustration. Such sparks of cross-disciplinary inspiration seem, however, to require some sort of neutral territory – an area of interest not completely monopolised by either domain. In short, artists and scientists seem to have identified visual images, and, maybe more specifically, the technologies and sites of image making, as a fruitful place in which unusual inspiration and even interaction can occur."
"One of the few artists who has seriously addressed the physics of space, time and matter through artistic concepts and visualisations is John Latham. In work which is often difficult to categorise, Latham has deliberately overstepped the boundaries generally applied to art and makes references to physics, psychology, linguistics and anthropology. His artworks are not to be regarded as ends in themselves or art for art’s sake but as devices for comprehending the universe and crucially the individual’s place in it. In this respect, Latham regards himself as an ‘incidental person’ instead of an artist who ‘stands at some distance from events and is capable of reflecting upon them critically, reaching insights by means of intuition.’...The purpose of art, he believes, is to re-create what he regards as the lost relationship between the individual and the whole, as a result of a crisis in physics because of the limitations of theories ‘which fail to include individual consciousness’."
"The distortions of time and place and scale glimpsed through an acquaintance with science suggest an imagined landscape of epic proportions. Inevitably we become less preoccupied with the minutiae of our lives and we are forced to reconsider our place in the universe."
"As we look at the two images we entertain the notion that both science and art are essentially ordering activities, part of the universal human inclination to find, expose and celebrate the world’s structures and patterns. Even more fundamentally, they gesture towards the fact that both art and science are expressions of a common intellectual curiosity – the profound human desire to know things which often starts with the possibility of envisioning and therefore of making a picture of them."
"Viewing scientific images we are perhaps confronted - sometimes more vividly than we are through conventional artworks – with a sense of our own impermanence and fragility, where our consciousness of boundary an identity and scale is displaced."
"All this evidence points to something much more profound than mere illustration. Such sparks of cross-disciplinary inspiration seem, however, to require some sort of neutral territory – an area of interest not completely monopolised by either domain. In short, artists and scientists seem to have identified visual images, and, maybe more specifically, the technologies and sites of image making, as a fruitful place in which unusual inspiration and even interaction can occur."
"One of the few artists who has seriously addressed the physics of space, time and matter through artistic concepts and visualisations is John Latham. In work which is often difficult to categorise, Latham has deliberately overstepped the boundaries generally applied to art and makes references to physics, psychology, linguistics and anthropology. His artworks are not to be regarded as ends in themselves or art for art’s sake but as devices for comprehending the universe and crucially the individual’s place in it. In this respect, Latham regards himself as an ‘incidental person’ instead of an artist who ‘stands at some distance from events and is capable of reflecting upon them critically, reaching insights by means of intuition.’...The purpose of art, he believes, is to re-create what he regards as the lost relationship between the individual and the whole, as a result of a crisis in physics because of the limitations of theories ‘which fail to include individual consciousness’."
"The distortions of time and place and scale glimpsed through an acquaintance with science suggest an imagined landscape of epic proportions. Inevitably we become less preoccupied with the minutiae of our lives and we are forced to reconsider our place in the universe."
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