Let's finally kill two-culturism

• Autores: Philip Ball
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3163, 2018, págs. 44-45
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Even in the recent past, art and science collaborations (known to some as sci-art) might have involved older scientists who had made their reputations and were now interested in sharing their knowledge in pleasantly unusual ways. Alternatively, they involved young scientists who enjoyed art, but worried that they should not be seen to be straying too far from the highway of scientific advance. Many of the artists involved were also at the start of their careers, and while they had licence to do whatever they liked, they too knew that they were unlikely to win a lot of respect from their constituency. However, the collision of art and science can be anything but creative, and we badly need a critical perspective. Sceptics of sci-art might sometimes be curmudgeonly, but they are right to demand evidence of value. Last September, a symposium hosted at the Wellcome Collection in London by GV Art, a gallery that regularly displays challenging sci-art, implied as much by titling the event #postARTandSCIENCE