InfinitasWed, Dec 16, 2009 As a science major I can see design in literally all forms of life and throughout the universe. I'm constantly doodling sacred geometry shapes in my Biology class while listening to my professor talk and point to pictures of viruses shaped like icosahedrons . Everything is based off of relatively simple geometry. I'm not all that into art (I'm particularly fond of M.C. Escher), but it seems to me that this inherent beauty is lacking in the art world. I think if art students were to take chemistry and physics it would open up a whole new world for them to explore as artists. To a certain extent this kind of interdisciplinary value is not available to students solely because of the how the role of education is played, well, also because so few students actually care about going to class to learn, let alone want to learn the "hard stuff", but that's a completely different issue. And as humans progress through childhood, basic schooling and into college, their brains tend to become more adapted towards thinking a certain way; thinking in a way that reflects what they are better capable of doing. And that's the whole left brain vs. right brain concept.
But I think that in the near future art is going to have a whole new direction and meaning, mostly because of the emergence of the collective intelligence. Imagine what an artist will be able to do with a slew of nanobots on the canvas that is the universe. That short story "The Gentle Seduction" comes to mind... Olena, will you create for me an asteroid mansion?
As a science major I can see design in literally all forms of life and throughout the universe. I'm constantly doodling sacred geometry shapes in my Biology class while listening to my professor talk and point to pictures of viruses shaped like icosahedrons . Everything is based off of relatively simple geometry. I'm not all that into art (I'm particularly fond of M.C. Escher), but it seems to me that this inherent beauty is lacking in the art world. I think if art students were to take chemistry and physics it would open up a whole new world for them to explore as artists. To a certain extent this kind of interdisciplinary value is not available to students solely because of the how the role of education is played, well, also because so few students actually care about going to class to learn, let alone want to learn the "hard stuff", but that's a completely different issue. And as humans progress through childhood, basic schooling and into college, their brains tend to become more adapted towards thinking a certain way; thinking in a way that reflects what they are better capable of doing. And that's the whole left brain vs. right brain concept.
But I think that in the near future art is going to have a whole new direction and meaning, mostly because of the emergence of the collective intelligence. Imagine what an artist will be able to do with a slew of nanobots on the canvas that is the universe. That short story "The Gentle Seduction" comes to mind... Olena, will you create for me an asteroid mansion?