1. Art & Science

2. Problem: connected or opposed? C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959) Lecture: 1.Origins ideas about connection/opposition 2.Actual relations Art/Science 3.Our perspective as students of science

3. 1. History terms art and science Middle Ages: Art as science: e.g. medieval universities: seven liberal arts Art als skill: e.g. mechanical arts

4. 1. History terms art and science Renaissance: Artist-engineers: Albrecht Dürer Giambattista della Porta Leonardo da Vinci

5. Leonardo da Vinci

7. 1. History terms art and science Early modern period (17 th century): still merged in thesis Svetlana Alpers criticism Alpers vanitas in science

9. 1. History terms art and science Early modern period (17 th century): still merged in thesis Svetlana Alpers criticism Alpers vanitas in science

10. 1. History terms art and science Romanticism (late 18 th - 19 th century) Origins opposition Art vs. Science: –Science destroys beauty, meaning, value –Art displays beauty, meaning, value

11. Thomas Campbell, To the Rainbow (1820): When Science from Creation s face Enchantment s veil withdraws, What lovely visions yield their place To cold material laws! 1. History terms art and science

12. Romanticism (late 18 th - 19 th century) Raymond Williams, Culture and Society (1958) –terms (industry, culture, etc.) change meaning –art becomes fine art

13. 1. History terms art and science Modernism (20 th century) anti-romantic avant-garde artists embrace science: –Italian futurists –Russian constructivists

14. Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futuristist Manifesto (1909): We declare that the splendor of the world has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed. A racing automobile with its bonnet adorned with great tubes like serpents with explosive breath... a roaring motor car which seems to run on machine-gun fire, is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace.

16. 1. History terms art and science 20 th century to our time: Modernism + Romantic opposition see e.g. C.P. Snow, The Two Cultures (1959)

17. 1. History terms art and science 20 th century to our time: All positions summed up in The Challenge of Our Time: –Arthur Koestler –J.D. Bernal –C.H. Waddington –Michael Polanyi

22. 2. Actual relations Art/Science besides conceptions also actual connections/cooperations artists and scientists in both directions

23. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: as subject matter as model as source of knowledge as inspiration

24. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: as subject matter as model as source of knowledge as inspiration

25. Jacques-Louis David, M. Lavoisier et son Épouse (1788)

26. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: as subject matter as model as source of knowledge as inspiration

28. Panamarenko

29. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: as subject matter as model as source of knowledge as inspiration

30. Claude Monet, Klaprozen bij Argenteuil (1873)

31. 2. Actual relations Art/Science science for art: as subject matter as model as source of knowledge as inspiration

32. 2. science & art Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur (1899-1904)

33. René Binet, Porte Monumentale, World Exposition, Paris (1900)

34. 2. Actual relations Art/Science art for science: for illustrations

37. Henry Thomas de la Beche, Duria Antiquor (1830)

38. 2. Actual relations Art/Science art for science: illustrations as virtual witnessing potentially weak link – cf. Hevelius transition to mechanical objectivity (Daston & Galison, Objectivity (2007)) gap art and science practices

39. 3. Our perspective as students of science difference between ideal picture of science and actual practice practice: –no method but skills –no Logic of Scientific Discovery (Popper), but Art of Scientific Discovery (Polanyi) no categoric difference

40. 3. Our perspective as students of science art/science projects: NWO Co-ops: http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6VZCHZ http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6VZCHZ http://www.co-ops.nl/ MoonzooM: http://www.co-ops.nl/site/co-ops/coops- agenda/item/88http://www.co-ops.nl/site/co-ops/coops- agenda/item/88 Discovery07: http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/7263/enhttp://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/7263/en

53. 3. Our perspective as students of science art/science projects: NWO Co-ops: http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6VZCHZ http://www.nwo.nl/nwohome.nsf/pages/NWOA_6VZCHZ http://www.co-ops.nl/ MoonzooM: http://www.co-ops.nl/site/co-ops/coops- agenda/item/88http://www.co-ops.nl/site/co-ops/coops- agenda/item/88 Discovery07: http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/7263/enhttp://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/7263/en

54. 3. Our perspective as students of science art/science projects - enthousiastic responses among: artist/technician museums educators popularisers