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Hi, I'm new here.

I'm an artist who was recently introduced to transhumanism, and as I see it as a way forward, I was wondering what people's thoughts were on art, science and blurring the borders of definition to produce images of both.

Here's an article that some of you no doubt have read already

http://www.americans...tid/54431#54470

I thought it would be a good starting point for a discussion.

Good to be here!

Welcome. I assume everyone is familiar with the world-famous Nanomedicine Art Gallery

http://www.foresight...dicine/Gallery/

As they say, pictures are worth thousands of words.

I've seen some very beautiful pictures of particle collisions in a bubble chamber, and their resulting tracks created by a particle accelerator. Some of you might have seen an awesome Strokes album cover (can't remember the name of the album off the top of my head) which has a picture of particle tracks. Quite simply some of the most beautiful art I have ever seen - all created by the smallest known entities in nature.

http://www.last.fm/m...okes/Is This It (here's the album cover)
http://www.levitated.net/p5/chamber/
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/39468
http://doc.cern.ch//...9710002_05.jpeg


Here's an interesting concept (might call it art, as it can be beautiful) of depicting complex networks of information into beautiful visual representations. Very cool stuff. When I get more time on my hands I'm going to learn more about it.

http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Nice to have you here ato abe. The link provided by you and Dr. Wowk are both very interesting visually.

Hi, I'm new here.

I'm an artist who was recently introduced to transhumanism, and as I see it as a way forward, I was wondering what people's thoughts were on art, science and blurring the borders of definition to produce images of both.

Here's an article that some of you no doubt have read already

http://www.americans...tid/54431#54470

I thought it would be a good starting point for a discussion.

Good to be here!

Nice to have you! It's great to see so many parts of the community represented here. I think many forms of art will undergo massive change with the advent of nanotechnology (amongst everything else ). Through future mind-computer interfacing, lots of amazing images and music will hopefully be shared. The idea of enhanced creativity is a fascinating topic for sure. I'm going to have to read that article...

Increased use of cutting edge tools is an important addition to any profession's toolbox, belt, petri dish, what have you

Nice to have you! It's great to see so many parts of the community represented here. I think many forms of art will undergo massive change with the advent of nanotechnology (amongst everything else ). Through future mind-computer interfacing, lots of amazing images and music will hopefully be shared. The idea of enhanced creativity is a fascinating topic for sure. I'm going to have to read that article...

Increased use of cutting edge tools is an important addition to any profession's toolbox, belt, petri dish, what have you

I can imagine artists living an experience, and be able to transfer that experience to another directly, thereby skipping the 'medium' altogether. The medium would be the brain itself. Yum!

I've seen some very beautiful pictures of particle collisions in a bubble chamber, and their resulting tracks created by a particle accelerator. Some of you might have seen an awesome Strokes album cover (can't remember the name of the album off the top of my head) which has a picture of particle tracks. Quite simply some of the most beautiful art I have ever seen - all created by the smallest known entities in nature.

http://www.last.fm/m...okes/Is This It (here's the album cover)
http://www.levitated.net/p5/chamber/
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/39468
http://doc.cern.ch//...9710002_05.jpeg

Here's an interesting concept (might call it art, as it can be beautiful) of depicting complex networks of information into beautiful visual representations. Very cool stuff. When I get more time on my hands I'm going to learn more about it.
http://www.visualcomplexity.com/vc/

Thanks jdog, there's some really nice stuff there. The Bubble Chamber (http://www.levitated.net/p5/chamber/) applet was fun to play around with. Here's a couple of pics I generated:

wow, very nice. I'm going to mess around with that this weekend.

My sis is really talented when it comes to art. She drew a beautiful picture of some particle tracks with pastels. It is sooo f'in cool. If i can get a picture of it i'll post it.

I was wondering what people's thoughts were on art, science and blurring the borders of definition to produce images of both.

I was also thinking that artistically conveying scientific theories, studies, and consequences could fall into the realm of the sentence above.

Here is the clip 'inner life of a cell' that has been posted many times:
http://www.youtube.c...related&search=

Here is a short version that removes the voice and adds music:

I can imagine artists living an experience, and be able to transfer that experience to another directly, thereby skipping the 'medium' altogether. The medium would be the brain itself. Yum!

That would be AWESOME. And in the case of visual art, blind people would be able to participate.


Thanks for all the links, and positivity.

I was wondering what people's thoughts were on art, science and blurring the borders of definition to produce images of both.

blurring the borders between art and science, ok:

A tiny "house of Santa Claus" carved in the sprinkled side of a DVD
Edited by Matthias, 10 November 2007 - 02:48 PM.

Welcome, ato abe, and thanks everyone for the cool pics and links. I've always felt that great things happen at the interface of science and art. Maybe not so much interface as overlap. In the 1980's when computer graphics was just getting started and people were figuring out how to do image synthesis, scientists and artists blended a bit more than usual, perhaps. (An old roommate of mine won a technical Oscar for an algorithm to realistically render hair.) The SigGraph meetings in that era were great. Roald Hoffman's article was a good read. I think he's right about nano images entering the visual vocabulary of our era, kind of liked stopped motion images were part of the visual vocabulary of the previous century. As nanomaterials become more ubiquitous and varied, maybe they will themselves be incorporated as new media in visual art.

Reminds me of ink blot tests made with an airbrush. Kind of neat.