Art + Physics

Rachel Guardiola 2013 All Rights Reserved

Why do the disciplines of art and science overlap?

ART = artem ; to know by means of putting together; to join, fit, or synthesize SCIENCE = scire ; to know by means of taking apart; to dissect to observe all parts
We all work with in the parameters specific to, and theories set by the predecesors in our fields. We all utilize critical thinking methods to theorize our work.

We all utilize visual tools to understand why something or anything in our environment is the way it is.

Observation
The act of perceiving something with our senses in order to gain information, and with this knowledge come to conclusions and communicate ideas. Physicists try to understand concepts that can not be recognized with in real dimensions due to the limitations of our physical state; they utilize modelmaking, mathematical calculation, and invent tools that extend sensorial modes of perception in order to theorize how matter works.

We both take information and internally visualize learned knowledge, come to theoretical conclusions, and complete projects that apply knowledge learned through investigation to further understand our surroundings and in some cases apply concepts to solve problems.

Descartes noted that by utilizing our sensorial perception ie. sight, we see that the sun is small in the sky, however through our intellect we are able to know that the sun is a large celestial body through higher reasoning. Aka you can not always believe what you see.

Anamorphosis/Catoptric

Saint Francis of Paola Jean Franois Niceron 1642 An optical system in which a deformed image must be viewed from a position that is far from the frontal position or an image that must be seen reflected in a distorting mirror to appear in discernable form.

Camera Obscura

Photography; to draw with light

Camera Lucida

Vermeer The Soldier and the Laughing Girl

Johannes Kepler

Henry Fox Talbot

The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbery, 1835/1839 Photogenic drawing negative; 3 x 4 3/16 in.

The Bertoloni Album, Album of 36 photogenic drawings, Photogenic drawing, 8 11/16 x 6 7/8 in., 1839

negative

positive

Abelardo Morell

Abelardo Morell

Chris Mccaw Sunburn

Trevor Paglen The Other Night Sky

Trevor Paglen The Other Night Sky

Trevor Paglen; Migrants Seen by Predator Drone, U.S.-Mexicao Border

Trevor Paglen, Waterspout, Florida Keys

Trevor Paglen; Typhoon, Japan, Early Twentieth Century

Trevor Paglen; Earth Rise

Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art

The Pleasure of Light: Gyorgy Kepes and Frank Malina at the intersection of Science and Art 2010 Curated by Nina Czegldy and Rna Kopeczky

Gorgy Kepes

The New Landscape in Art and Science, 1956, abstract line with black and white charcoal

Gyorgy Kepes, The New Landscape in Art and Science, 1956, abstract line with black and white charcoal http://video.mit.edu/watch/cloud-chamber-4058/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Efgy1b V2aQo

= cloud chamber video

Gyorgy Kepes, Flame Orchard, 1970-72, images of flame responding to music

Ghosts in the Machine @ New Museum 2012

Many of the artists in the show take a scientific approach to investigating the realm of the invisible, dismantling the mechanics of vision in order to conceive new possibilities for seeing. Investigation in humanitys ability to develop technologies that allow us to extend our sensorial perception; to see things we can not see and how these technologies transform our understanding of reality.

Channa Horwitz
systematic works

Orange Grid

Orange Grid

Orange Grid

Orange Grid

Reoccuring concepts/ Chaos and Order

Self-Similarity- The parts or building blocks of an entity replicate their whole or greater body; meaning they have the same characteristics as their composite form, can be viewed at any scale, and can be quantified using mathematical algorithms.

Brownian Motion- The building blocks of nature function as a random generator influencing the matter in their environment to exhibit infinite irregular movement.
Both of these concepts in physics explain laws of nature, but draw opposing characteristics leading to an ongoing relationship between chaos and order.

Sol le witt

artist lay calculate to produce a vernacular step by step guide for anyone to reproduce art piece

Dan Flavin

Christian Marclay The Clock

Victoria Vesna

Zero@wavefunction

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9bi-ExFzAs&list=PLBC55DE9DE9D5EF6C

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMB 7tKilw2A

The Dark Side of the Cell

http://www.darksideofcell.info/hongkong/ microwave04-small.mov

Daphnia Compound Electric Microscope 2007

Insectae I Unidentified 2007

Lacrymaria I 2007