Upcoming Classes

Thursday, Aug. 30th

Physical Scale and Geometric PerspectiveAssignments due:

Homework assignment #1

Tuesday, Sept. 4th

Fractal Worlds & Chaotic SystemsAssignments due:

Topic of first oral presentation or written paper

Read “Order in Pollock's Chaos”; Scientific American, December 2002

Homework Assignments

Turn in homework at the beginning of class; remember late homework is not accepted.

You may discuss your homework with classmates but DON’T copy work.

Oral Presentations

The following persons will give oral presentations on Thursday, September 27th :

• Batres, Adan• Boyd, Heidi• Chen, Emily• Huang, Annlyn • Kwiatkowski, Dajon• Lebedeff, ChristopherFor everyone else, your first term paper is due on

that date.

The Nexus ofArt & Science

What is Art?

M. Duchamp Fountain

J. BeuysFelt Suit

Works of Shakespeare

DogsPlayingPoker

Performance Art

What is Art?We’ll focus on the non-verbal arts, such as,

painting, dance, design, music, even theater, but not literature or poetry.

What is Science?Medical science?

Psychology?

EarthSciences?

Political Science?

What is Science?

We’ll focus on mathematics and the physical sciences of chemistry and physics.

Mathematics

Chemistry

Physics

The Art and Science Dialogue

Today’s reading from the book Art & Science asks:

What, if anything, do artists & scientists have in common?

Art, Science, and MysticismArt and science have a distant, common

origin in linking humans to the natural world by primitive mysticism.

Pyramids of Egypt

Aztec CalendarShiva, Hindu deityof destruction

Art & Science: Opposite Poles?

Subjective Objective

Emotional Logical

Imagination Reality

Right Brain Left Brain

Concerned with “Why” Concerned with “How”

Art is ___________ but Science is ____________.

Art & Science: Common Ground

What do artists and scientists have in common?

• Creativity & inspiration• Aesthetics (appreciation of beauty)• Discipline & dedication• Polyvalence (interest in many things)• Visualization• Investigation & Research• Presentation & Performance

Creativity & Inspiration

Artists’ and scientists’ best work is creative, which requires inspiration

Composing music

Archimedes discoveres the law of buoyancy while in the bath and cries “Eureka!” (“I’ve found it” in Greek)

“Science does not know its debt to imagination.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Muses of Greek Mythology

• Calliope (Chief muse and muse of epic poetry) • Polyhymnia (hymns and sacred poetry) • Terpsichore (dance and choral song) • Clio (history and historical/heroic poetry) • Euterpe (music/lyric poetry) • Erato (lyrics/love poetry) • Melpomene (tragedy) • Thalia (comedy) • Urania (astronomy)

Activity: Creativity ExerciseI’ve invited my friend, Professor John Clapp, from

SJSU’s School of Art & Design, to share some creativity exercises he uses with his students.

The Prince of Butterflies, John Clapp

Aesthetics & Beauty

Scientists are attracted to work that is considered beautiful and elegant.

Mathematical fractal (Mandelbrot set) Calabi-Yau manifold from string theory

Discipline & Dedication

Art & science are hard work that require discipline and dedication.

Jackson Pollock at workMars Climate Orbiter, destroyed on approach to Mars

Violin practice

Polyvalence (Multiple Interests)

Artists and scientists often have diverse interests and a broad, active curiosity.

The Mother, by Louis Pasteur,Chemist and biologist

Albert Einstein

Self-portrait by Samuel Morse, Art professor and inventor of the Morse code telegraph system

Visualization

Scientists make significant use of “right brain” (visual) thinking in their work.

Woodcut by M.C. Escher and gears arranged along a Möbius strip trefoil knot.

Computer simulation of turbulent premixed flames

DNADoubleHelix

Investigation & Preparation

Scientific and artistic works are require preparation, practice, sketching, research, rehearsals, working by trial and error, etc.

Sketch from Charles Darwin’s notebook

Musicians trying somenew songs Star Wars, Episode 2 storyboards

Presentation & Performance

Artists & scientists present their work, which is subject to critical review.

Poster session at physics conference

Showing at an art gallery

Argument & DebateCriticism often leads to stimulating debate

and new directions in both art and science.Painters of the realist and impressionist movements submitted works to the official exhibition sponsored by the Académie des beaux-arts, but were rejected. A Salon des Refusés (Salon of the Rejected) was organized so the rejected works could be displayed in a separate exhibition. It was a great success, stimulating the rise of those movements.

The Luncheon on the Grass, Édouard Manet

Technical Shorthand

Mathematical EquationsMusical Scores

Course Topics

In this course we’ll cover some general topics where art & science overlap, such as:

• Geometry, Optics / Visual Arts

• Motion, Dynamics / Dance

• Matter, Forces, Energy / Design

• Acoustics / Music

Also touch on architecture, photography, animation, and other artistic disciplines.

Term Paper Topics

• Physics & Figure Skating• Singing in the Shower• Why the Sky is Blue• Cubist Painting & Einstein’s Relativity• Theatrical Lighting• Grand Jette, The Physics of Ballet Leaps• Designing a Perpetual Motion Machine• The Shape of the Piano

Topics that are NOT of interest

Do not choose a purely biographical or historical topic, such as

• The life of Issac Newton

• Opera during the Industrial Revolution

May include a some biographical or historical information but keep the focus on the art and on the science.

Next LecturePhysical Scale and

Geometric Perspective

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Do the first homework assignment