The Cutting Edge of Science and Art: A Curated Exploration Course Outline
The cutting edge of science and art: a curated exploration
This course offers a tour through the world’s most cutting-edge immersive and interactive sci-art. Each week we will take on a theme, from big data to biotechnology to the environment, and introduce students to a number of beautiful and challenging works of art dealing with that theme—works from around the world that were designed to be experienced and explored online (some of which we are given exclusive access to!). The group will embark on a guided exploration of each artwork, learning about the themes and how to approach the scientific content as well as how to engage with the artistic side, and sharing their responses and experiences in an open, welcoming exploration.
Week by week outline
Week 1
Big Data
Ryoji Ikeda: Datamatics
Marcus Lyall: Laser Lumia
teamLab: Flowers Bombing Home
Week 2
Biotechnology
Anna Dumitriu and Alex May: Biotechnology from the Blue Flower
https://www.ourbiotechplanet.artscience-node.com/exhibition/artist/anna_dum_alex_may.html
Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology
Our Bio-Tech Planet
EXIBITION: CAPTURE THE FUTURE(S): OUR BIO-TECH PLANET @ PLANT BIOLOGY EUROPE 2021
In Search of Chemozoa by boredomresearch
Critical Art Ensemble
Soft Robotics and Posthuman Entities
https://jar-online.net/en/exposition/abstract/soft-robotics-and-posthuman-entities
Week 3
The Environment
Marshmallow Laser Feast: We Live in an Ocean of Air
Brandon Ballengee
Aeolus Online
Owen Fernley: Between the Sand
Rhizone
https://www.ourbiotechplanet.artscience-node.com/exhibition/artist/joan_hof_andr_bart.html
Week 4
The Enormous and the Infinitesimal
Levon Biss: Microsculpture
Universal Everything: Communion
Margaret Nazon
https://margaretnazon.com/browse-the-gallery/
Week 5
The Body
BoredomResearch: One Cell at a Time
https://boredomresearch.net/wp/blog/human-cell-atlas-commission/
(willing to provide special access to class)
Blast Theory: A Cluster of 17 Cases
https://www.17cases.com/?fbclid=IwAR3BApd8Zrqt9Lf1Nhq-nb00kHtJf7E9Z12x81HeZD5XOIOXOD9wF6DSlfI
Marshmallow Laser Feast: The Tides Within Us
Tin and Ed: Life Forces
Proximal Spaces
http://www.proximalspaces.com/
Virophilia
https://www.ourbiotechplanet.artscience-node.com/exhibition/artist/pei_ying_lin.html
Bonus
Speculative fiction
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