Art the Science
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Art the Science
2y ago
Name: Diego Araujo
Aquatic life forms in a pond (2022). From “The Natural History of the Aetherworld”. AI illustration generated in Disco Diffusion by Diego Araujo.
Which came first in your life, the science or the art?
Is there a difference between them (laugh)? As far as I can remember, as a young kid, I was already doing some sort of drawing, but I was also admiring the drawings of Amoeba and spiders in biomedical encyclopedias we had at home. Formally, I developed myself as a scientist. That meant going through a BSc in Biology, MSc in Ecology, and a PhD with focus in evolutionary bi ..read more
Art the Science
2y ago
Name: atelier*zephyr (Hisako)
Which came first in your life, the science or the art?
I have loved to draw since I was a child. At the same time, I also grew up reading encyclopedias and illustrated books, which I already had at home. I’ve always enjoyed observing ant nests, going out with an insect net to catch cicadas, and looking at phytoplankton under a microscope, and this hasn’t changed even as an adult. So I think art and science were simultaneous, at least in my childhood.
At first, I wanted to be a person who drew pictures for illustrated books. However, as I entered adolescence, I bec ..read more
Art the Science
2y ago
Name: Leonora Martínez Núñez
Carbon nanotube porins as anion channels (2021) by Leonora Martínez Núñez
Which came first in your life, the science, or the art?
It has been a fluctuating thing I believe. As a kid I was more interested in performing somehow and doing crafts all the time, however, I always wanted to be a scientist. In high school, I took both biological sciences courses and arts and graphic design, but for my formal education, I decided to study Biology. I wanted to pursue an academic life and I dreamt about having a PhD, being in a lab doing some cutting-edge science, yet s ..read more
Art the Science
2y ago
Name: Sofía Polcowñuk
Which came first in your life, the science or the art?
As a young girl, I had a strong influence from both. My parents are artisans, so the artistic part was always there since I was very little, but on the other hand, they also studied biology, so my house was a place where art and science merged.
However, for my career, I decided to go for science, I studied Biology and got my PhD. 3 years ago.
Proliferation by Sofía Polcowñuk
Which sciences relate to your art practice?
In my artwork, I’m inspired by nature, by the organisms I work with. Biology is my source of creativi ..read more
Art the Science
2y ago
If there’s any respite to be found from the difficult times that seem to surround us, it’s in art. Art that is moving and beautiful, intriguing and awe-inspiring, and reflects life in the most earnest way. I find this to be true in the work of Daphne Boyer, a visual artist and plant scientist of Red River Métis descent.
Using high resolution photographs of various berries and plant material (or porcupine quills) as digital beads—what she calls the “Berries to Beads” technique—Boyer creates vibrant works that pay homage to traditional handwork, celebrate her Indigenous heritage, and honour the ..read more
Art the Science
2y ago
Devasher’s new film installation brings us closer to our closest star.
In terms of familiarity, it’s hard to beat the sun. When your claims to fame include enabling the existence of life as we know it and also being really, really bright, you can’t go unnoticed. But how exactly do we understand this blazing ball of gas? We can’t even look at it, and we certainly can’t get close to it. Or can we?
One Hundred Thousand Suns is a film installation by artist and amateur astronomer Rohini Devasher. Created using over 100 years of data about the sun, the work celebrates the wonder and complexity of o ..read more
Art the Science
2y ago
Name: Joana Carvalho
Which came first in your life, the science or the art?
Growing up, my passions always oscillated between some form of science and some form of art. Initially, between being a surgeon and a ballet dancer. Later on, between biology and visual arts. When the time came to choose one, I chose biology. I was obsessed with the beauty of genetics at the time. I never stopped drawing though, and my spare time was mostly spent hunched over some piece of paper with a pen in my hand. It was only much later that I realized that you can merge these two fields and transform what is commo ..read more
Art the Science
2y ago
How Tłı̨chǫ Dene artist Casey Koyczan blends culture and technology to render a new kind of reality.
As a teenager, Casey Koyczan asked a question: “Why don’t I just want to do one thing?”
Now an established multidisciplinary artist, whose work includes staggering virtual reality (VR) renditions of Dene legends, Koyczan was once on the path to becoming a professional hockey player. Koyczan loved the game, but realized the “eat, sleep, breathe hockey” attitude the career required simply wasn’t there.
Koyczan tells me in an interview that multifaceted interests created the feeling of being an “o ..read more
Art the Science
3y ago
Name: Thom Leach
Which came first in your life, the science or the art?
Science came first in my life. Growing up I was a jack of all trades, but I chose to study science further because I enjoyed the concepts, and it was better funded, so I saw it as a safe bet career-wise. If you’d have told me as a teenager that I would one day become an artist, I would have thought you were crazy. But as I got older, I realized more and more that I was missing forms of expression in my life. This eventually led to creative hobbies, which increasingly took over until I realized that I could no longer contin ..read more
Art the Science
3y ago
Do AI dream of electric sheep? Yes, if we tell them to.
In fact, the electric sheep can look something like this:
Electric Sheep. Created by Annie Truuvert with WOMBO Dream.
These sheep were created by Dream, an app by WOMBO that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate intricate works of art. The user simply enters a prompt (or picks from Dream’s suggestions, like “Futuristic City,” “Crawling Brains,” or “Diamond Trees”), and selects an art style, like Dali, Fantasy, Ukiyo-e, or Steampunk. Then, they watch in real time as Dream creates an artwork based on these inputs. Users are so ..read more