Post on 15-Jul-2015
Granada, March 10, 2015
Art, Science and Distributed Creativity
CARLOS M. FERNANDES Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR/IST) LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisboa www.carlosmfernandes.com
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Creativity in art does not seem to me essentially different from
scientific creativity or any other act of creation known to mankind.
Frank J. Malina (1954)
Rocket engineer and painter.
Founder of Leonardo journal
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Frank J. Malina (1912-1981)
Frank J. Malina, “Flowers,” 1964.
Creativity (in art and science)
Computational Generative Art
Humanities and Natural Sciences: schism, dialogues and
misconceptions
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Archimedes(c. 287 AC-c. 212 AC)
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Statue of Archimedes in Manchester
Archimedes’ Principle
Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
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Photo: Harold Edgerton
Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation
François Jacob (1920-2013)
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Friedrich Kekulé (1829-1896)
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Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
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«The rushing sound formed itself in my brain into a
musical sound, the chord of E flat major, which
continually reechoed in broken forms; these broken
chords seemed to be melodic passages of increasing
motion, yet the pure triad of E flat major never
changed, but seemed by its continuance to impart
infinite significance to the element in which I was
sinking. »
Richard Wagner, Mein Leben, Vol.2, Munique: F. Bruckman
AG, 1911, p. 592
Creativity on the Edge of Chaos
Hypnagogia
(between wakefulness and sleep) Wakefulness Sleep
E.O. Wilson: «In dreams we are insane.»
order chaos
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Taylor, R.; Micolich, Adam P.; Jonas, David, Can Science Be Used To Further Our Understanding Of Art?
Rather than mimicking Nature, Pollock adopted its
language - fractals - to build his own patterns.
When asked if he used nature as a source of inspiration for his work, Pollock responded, "I am
nature!"
Anna Opperman (1940-1993)
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Warnke, M., Wedemeyer, C.
Documenting Artistic Networks: Anna
Oppermann’s Ensembles are Complex
Networks!
2010
Creativity
Margaret Boden
Conceptual Space: Structured system of thought.
Creativity
Combinatorial
Explorative
Transformative
Schism
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Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
Lamia, John Keats (1819)
Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? Soneto à Ciência, Edgar Allan Poe (1829)
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Umberto Boccioni
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
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Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)
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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
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Nu Descendant un Escalier, No.2, 1912
Woman Walking Downstairs, 1887
Harold Edgerton (1903-1990)
Photography and Eugenics
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Francis Galton (1822-1911)
Composite Portraits
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Photosynthesis
Krzysztof Pruszkowski
Idris Khan (n. 1978)
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Bernd and Hilla Becher Idris Kahn
Hiroshi Sugimoto (n.1948)
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«To be a good photographer, you have to be a scientist as well.»
Computational Art
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Computational Art
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The Machine: as seen at the end of mechanical age
1968, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York
The possibilities inherent in the computer as a
creative tool will do little to change those
idioms of art which rely primarily on the
dialogue between the artist, his ideas and
the canvas. They will, however, increase the scope
of art and contribute to its diversity.
Generative Art
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Max Ernst, La Planète Affolée, 1942
Arte Artificial e Algoritmos Genéticos GAAL’98
Evolutionary Art
Pherographia/Pherography
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Photography – drawing with light
Pherography – drawing with pheromones
Pherographia
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Timor Mortis Conturbat Me
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Carlos M. Fernandes, 2008
The Horse and the Ants
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Carlos M. Fernandes, 2009
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Carlos M. Fernandes, 2010
KANTS
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Pherogenic Sleep Drawings
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Carlos M. Fernandes, 2011
Data KANTS Habitat
RGB
Data
KANTS
habitat
Abstracting the Abstract #1
(after Mondrian)
Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012
Abstracting the Abstract #2
(after Pollock)
Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012
Abstracting the Abstract #3
(after Kupka)
Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012
Abstracting the Abstract #4
(after Kandinsky)
Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012
Abstracting the Abstract #5
(after Miró)
Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012
The End
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Há na heterodoxia científica um paralelo com a artística, um sentido
estético para a literatura e para as artes, e um sentido cognitivo para as
ciências.
Sebastião Formosinho
http://reflex5.theportfolioproject.org/