An article in the NYTimes talks about the Californian Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, or Calit2, a $400 million research consortium. What makes this Institute interesting is the way it combines art and science:
The six-story Calit2 laboratory, which overlooks the Pacific Ocean, is designed for 900 faculty and student researchers. Two separate wings extend from the main building. On one side is an ultrasterile set of nanotechnology clean rooms designed for making devices like sensors for detecting pollutants, biological warfare agents and cancer cells. On the other side is a new digital media arts center composed of auditoriums and computer visualization laboratories, where the Calit2 scientists, engineers and artists can display their projects.
Artist-scientist collaborations include work being done by the neuroscientist Mark H. Ellisman and Sheldon Brown, who is in charge of the New Media Arts group at Calit2. Dr. Ellisman’s group was involved in the construction of a wall-size tiled computer capable of displaying 100 million pixel images of the brain, making it possible to view vastly more information than on a standard monitor.
It’s great to see the arts and science being combined (once again). After all, think of Leonardo Da Vinci, an incredible artist, but also a notable scientist and inventor. I think art and science can form a powerful symbiosis; each field giving a different view and perspective on our existence.
mmmm yeah, thats very interesting daniel 🙂
i do think modern science today is far more embrasive of collaboration from not only the arts, but spirituality as well, when i went to see the dalai lama
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=46531
(yes! an amazing experience) i was moved by his ideas of how all things and every thing IS interelated … science + art + nature + maths + + + … he has some wonder filled ideas that man 🙂 … and as ben lee writes in a very uplifting song called “were all in this together” … put simply – quantum physics 😀
cheers
ash
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Great article ash!
I would love to see a speech by him in person, would be so powerful!
Art, science and spirituality often see themselves as separate and against one another when in fact they can all learn from one another and grow together.
uhu, it was pretty amazing seeing him in the flesh and powerful is a good werd to describe the feeling i had afterwards in terms of the effect it had on me, but in all honesty, the man is so not powerful, so not loud, so gently gently and softly softly, such lover-lee pause between puntuations of speech, such timing & space between his ununciations, such tenderness all around him 🙂
hmmmyeah, i was in absolute awe of his presence and his presentation, can you tell ? lol … i wish i cood be more like him 😀 and yeah, living, learning and loving together iisnt such an impossible ideal is it ?
and how come the link i posted above
didnt convert to a clinkable link ?
im just curious i am
and cheers
ash
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So true!!! We need more leaders like him in the world!!
Hmmm, link, I dunno, I might need to enable something in my blog for that to happen! I will have a look.