• Foreword, Introduction, When Art and Science were One: Leonardo da Vinci, Art under the Microscope: Cajal and Golgi, The Brain's Signature: Visual Art in Normal and Abnormal Brains, A Thousand Data Points: Art in Scientific Visualisation, Neuroaesthetics: Two Roads Converge, Conclusion.
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Why Science Needs Art explores the complex relationship between these seemingly polarised fields. Reflecting on a time when art and science were considered inseparable and symbiotic pursuits, the book discusses how they have historically informed and influenced each other, before considering how public perception of the relationship between these disciplines has fundamentally changed. Science and art have something very important in common: they both seek to reduce something infinitely complex to something simpler. Using examples from diverse areas including microscopy, brain injury, classical art, and data visualization, the book delves into the history of the intersection of these two disciplines, before considering current tensions between the fields. The emerging field of neuroaesthetics and its attempts to scientifically understand what humans find beautiful is also explored, suggesting ways in which the relationship between art and science may return to a more co-operative state in the future. Why Science Needs Art provides an essential insight into the relationship between art and science in an appealing and relevant way. Featuring colorful examples throughout, the book will be of interest to students and researchers of neuroaesthetics and visual perception, as well as all those wanting to discover more about the complex and exciting intersection of art and science.
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• 1 Front Matter-- 2 Conference Summary-- 3 Machines and the Human Biome at the Frontier of Medicine Science-- 4 Designing a Healthcare System That Promotes Learning and Caring-- 5 Imagining New Ways to Use Music in Education and Health-- 6 Restoring Physical Intuition-- 7 Creating Sustainable Futures in a World Increasingly Dependent on Technology-- 8 Developing Programs to Engage and Empower Communities to Address Threats to Ecosystems-- 9 Creating Open Data Culture-- 10 Creating a Learning Educational System to Identify Benefits of STEM to STEAM-- 11 Innovation, Creativity, and Action (Team Summary, Group 1)-- 12 Innovation, Creativity, and Action (Team Summary, Group 2)-- 13 Harnessing Computers Worldwide to Address Urgent, Global Issues-- 14 Developing Art-Science Collaborations to Reduce Cross-Cultural Denialism-- 15 Generating Projects That Bring Together the Structure and Systems Between Biology and Art to Create Either Biology or Art-- 16 Creating Human-Centered Cultures with Human-Centered Technologies-- 17 Appendixes-- 18 Preconference Tutorials-- 19 Agenda-- 20 Participant List.
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Science and art were not always two separate entities. Historically, times of great scientific progress occurred during profound movements in art, the two disciplines working together to enrich and expand humanitya (TM)s understanding of its place in this cosmos. Only recently has a dividing line been drawn, and this seeming dichotomy misses some of the fundamental similarities between the two endeavors. At the National Academies Keck Futures Initiative Conference on Art, Design and Science, Engineering and Medicine Frontier Collaborations: Ideation, Translation, and Realization, participants spent 3 days exploring diverse challenges at the interface of science, engineering, and medicine. They were arranged into Seed Groups that were intentionally diverse, to encourage the generation of new approaches by combining a range of different types of contributions. The teams included creative practitioners from the fields of art, design, communications, science, engineering, and medicine, as well as representatives from private and public funding agencies, universities, businesses, journals, and the science media.
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