Art(a)Science

The Arts and Sciences have long been regarded as separated disciplines. In the era of the rapidly developing computer technologies a novel interdisciplinary spirit has emerged that indicates a promising new collaboration between research and art. Computer Graphics, Interactive Arts, Scientific Visualization, Communication, Artificial Life and the Internet are areas where artistic thinking influences science and where scientific methodology reaches into the arts. Art § Science brings together the pioneer thinkers in this interdisciplinary movement into the 21st century and features articles by: Philippe Quau, Ryohei Nakatsu, Maria Grazia Mattei, Donna Cox, Demetri Terzopoulos, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Tom Ray, Machiko Kusahara, Louis Bec, Michael Naimark, Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss, Jeffrey Shaw, Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, Otto Rössler, Gottfried Mayer-Kress, Peter Richards, Hans-Peter Schwarz, Toshiharu Ito, Itsuo Sakane, Michael Klein, Roy Ascott, Erkki Huhtamo and Cynthia Goodman. TOC: Telecommunication.- Scientific Visualization.- Artificial-Life.- Artists as Researchers.- Chaos and Complex Systems.- Public Spaces.- Education of Art & Science.- Art & Science in Historical and Cultural Context.