scienceandart

  • Cosmogony. Explore New Territories

    by paradoxig

    Cosmogony is a fabulous live digital performance that is captured in Geneva, projected -through the use of mocap suit s- to Sundance 2022, Spaceship and from there made available all over the world.Put together by the masterminds of virtual/digital contemporary dance company Cie Gilles Jobin, that already made performances such …

  • 20th Year of Science-In-Film Initiative Celebrated, Feature Film Prize Goes to After Yang The Sundance Film Festival has announced the artist grant recipients for the Sundance Institute Science-in-Film initiative at the twentieth annual Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Feature Film Prize Reception. The previously announced 2022 Feature Film Prize winner (Kogonada, …

  • Immortality: Between Power and Art

    by paradoxig

    Dreaming about Immortality has a long history, and the various attempts to achieve are astonishing and fall in several categories.The first is to take some kind of “magic pill” – be it the fountain of youth, the elixir of life, the holy grail, till modern medicine of genetic engineering. We …

  • The Formula of Immortality

    by paradoxig

    Dreaming about Immortality has a long history, almost as long as the failed quests to achieve it. And during all these years and years, the solutions for achieving immortality can fall in several categories.The first is to take some kind of “magic pill” – be it the fountain of youth, …

  • From Dummies to… Type I Civilisation

    by paradoxig

    Do you think we are an advanced civilisation? Think again! Because science say….There is still a long-way to go! Let’s take the courage to face ourselves and where our Levels are – truly and scientifically measured. Next, we think about what we can do – as creatives, and not only …

  • Thinkable Thoughts about the Future of AI

    by paradoxig

    At the beginning of April, TechvangArt announced with enthusiasm the third series of MIT CAST symposia that bring together artists, scientists, engineers, and humanists from a variety of disciplines to address topics of common concern in areas of rapidly evolving research and urgent social relevance.It was enchanting to see so …

  • Unfolding Intelligence Symposium

    by paradoxig

    The four panels address the following questions: How do recent tools in computation shape the models that scientists, artists, and engineers make of the world and universe?Can artists and scientists create a world in which Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and artificial intelligence (AI) are meaningfully brought together?Can AI and software …

  • BioArt: Between Science and Art #2

    by paradoxig

    This is the continuation of our first article on BioArt, where we discussed the intersections between art and science, and dissected the special links between biology and art, and the birth of the BioArt Manifesto. In this second article, we will review the growing trend of biotech and the developing …

  • BioArt: Between Art and Science

    by paradoxig

    What were the influences and intersections between art, science, and technology?At a first glance, it seems that art relies on creativity, imagines the unimaginable, and making (i)logical ‘speculations’, when science relies on facts, on demonstrations, and everything that can be proved… A stereotype, most people agree to. But nothing can …