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- Title
Second Laws, Two Cultures, and the Emergence of an Ecosystem Aesthetics.
- Authors
Yang, Andrew
- Abstract
The appropriation of scientific concepts by the humanities and the visual arts exemplifies what many feel are both the pitfalls and possibilities of interdisciplinary engagement. The principle of entropy, which C. P. Snow claimed could serve as a litmus test of the 'two cultures' divide, provides an excellent starting point for exploring how artists have employed scientific concepts far beyond their original contexts. As a case study in interdisciplinarity, the use of entropy in the visual arts is also a lens to consider the evolution of an artistic proposal from the 1960s known as 'system aesthetics'. As an early challenge to the clean demarcation of art and science, system aesthetics was a precedent for what might be described as the emergence of an ecosystem aesthetics within contemporary art and design today.
- Subjects
ART &; science; AESTHETICS research; INTERDISCIPLINARY approach to knowledge; ARTISTS; DESIGN
- Publication
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2015, Vol 40, Issue 2, p168
- ISSN
0308-0188
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1179/0308018815Z.000000000111