Colliding worlds : how cutting-edge science is redefining contemporary art /

In recent decades, an exciting new art movement has emerged in which artists utilize and illuminate the latest advances in science. Some of their provocative creations--a live rabbit implanted with the fluorescent gene of a jellyfish, a gigantic glass-and-chrome sculpture of the Big Bang (pictured o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Miller, Arthur I. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • In search of the invisible
  • Montmartre in New York
  • The computer meets art
  • Computer art morphs into media art
  • visualizing the invisible
  • Intermezzo : how science helped resolve the world's greatest art scandal
  • Imagining and designing life
  • Hearing as seeing
  • The art of visualizing data
  • Comrades-in-arms : encouraging, funding, and housing Artsci
  • In the eye of the beholder?
  • The coming of a third culture.