Artscience: A New Avant-garde?

[摘要] Science and the arts are currently seen as independent cultural domains. And yet, artists have been attracted to new technologies for centuries: preeminent examples include the introduction of revolutionary oil-based paints in the 16th century and the use of photography in the 19th century. In contemporary art there is now a vast range of artworks, installations, and performances that either address cutting-edge science or use state-of-the-art technologies (1, 2). Conversely, there is a tradition in industry to look to the arts for design ideas. At the beginning of the 20th century the Bauhaus in Germany successfully brought together the arts with craft and industrial design, providing an integrative model which has been drawn upon till the present time (3). As for contemporary science drawing on the arts, there has been much less interaction.What would be an optimal mode of cooperation between the arts and science? There have been attempts to forge links. In the 1990s the UNESCO …

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