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Sat Nov 11, 2023, 09:15 AM Nov 2023

The unexpected outcomes of artist-scientist collaborations [audio podcast/transcript]

Might have to add this to my podcast queue.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03390-y

NATURE CAREERS PODCAST
10 November 2023

The unexpected outcomes of artist-scientist collaborations

Artists love working with scientists, and when they do it can unlock new perspectives for research.

Julie Gould


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Artist and illustrator Lucy Smith helps botanists to identify new species. Usually they request a set of drawings, she says, with a detailed set of requirements.

But Smith, who joined London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, more than 20 years ago, says: “We also feed back to the scientists and say, 'I’ve seen what you’ve asked me to see. But do you know what, I’ve also seen this? Did you know that this flower has this structure.'”

In the second episode of this six-part Working Scientist podcast series about art and science, Smith is joined by other artists with experience of science collaborations. David Ibbett, resident composer at the Harvard and Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says: “By trying to synthesize these different perspectives on what the science means, we arrive at something new.”

Diana Scarborough, artist-in-residence in bionanotechnolost Ljiljana Fruk’s lab at the University of Cambridge, UK, says that the best collaborations are long term ones, requiring also curiosity and passion. “Looking at their research from a different angle opens up opportunities. If I can make a difference at that point, that will be superb.”

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The unexpected outcomes of artist-scientist collaborations [audio podcast/transcript] (Original Post) sl8 Nov 2023 OP
My family went to the Guggenheim Retrospective of one of the founders of abstract art, Hilma af Klint. NNadir Nov 2023 #1
Very interesting, thank you. nt sl8 Nov 2023 #2

NNadir

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1. My family went to the Guggenheim Retrospective of one of the founders of abstract art, Hilma af Klint.
Sat Nov 11, 2023, 10:00 AM
Nov 2023

She has not had the recognition she deserved for moving the direction of painting in a new direction, and rarely sold her paintings during her lifetime.

She made her living as an illustrator of scientific papers beginning in the 19th century and then into the early 20th century.

Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future

The show was amazing. One can assume she was an artist whose collaboration with scientists changed the history of art.

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