[Applause]
Aristotle the Greek philosopher and
scientist once declared in the 3rd
century BC the aim of art is represent
not the outward appearance of things but
their inward significance what he meant
by his definition of art is that a
painting is not the same as a photograph
because our incorporates the artists
interpretation his centuries-old
definition still resonates with us today
despite most of us being taught that art
is just a depiction of beauty it is
rather the installment of the artist
into their own perception the truth
today we try to discover the so-called
truth with science studying both the
physical and natural world with
experimentation and evidence but what
we’ve forgotten is that our undertakes
the same purpose with its emphasis on
empiricism artists use observation as
evidence these two fields are solutions
to the same problem how do we understand
the world around us they provoke us to
overcome the fear of the unknown to be
able to visualize things in our minds
and to observe the world acutely people
often tell me it’s unusual I chose to
invest myself into two completely
different realms but I disagree I don’t
think I have my name is Anna mischenko
and I’m both a passionate artist and
scientist and today I’m here to oppose
the common notion that art and science
are completely separate from one another
like many of you I used to believe that
art was simply self-expression combining
aesthetically pleasing images to create
pretty pictures drawn freely without any
rules and contrastingly that science was
rigid exploration integrating countless
data and experiments into hypotheses
however if we look towards two
historical examples for art reflected
scientific breakthroughs and a few ways
in which science is embedded inside of
artwork we can see the
art and science couldn’t be more related
and their approaches to observation that
art is a science in itself today I’ll
demonstrate how art is research how art
reflects natural phenomena and how art
is embedded with systems first let us
consider the research aspect during the
Enlightenment in the 15th and 16th
centuries Leonardo da Vinci though he
must commonly recognize him for his
famous artwork revolutionize approaches
to scientific research da Vinci was the
ultimate polymath a painter sculptor
inventor and scientist at his time most
people obtained their knowledge from
religious writings or from previous
scientists but he was the outlier da
Vinci refused the Bible as his textbook
and his stead turned towards his studies
of nature strolling along the arno and
investigating rock formations caves
flowers and fossils his observations
prompted him to start a notebook on the
human anatomy and 1489 recording in
great detail what he noticed about eye
sockets and the human muscle tendon and
skeletal systems and almost 20 years
later
da Vinci sparked a breakthrough in a
scientific career with the discovery of
the four powers the world movement
forced suede and percussion and his
studies of arms and legs led to the
invention of the lever but a success and
closely studying the human body didn’t
end there da Vinci’s renowned Vitruvius
man was at the epitome of art meets
science illustrating in-depth analysis
on the human proportion ancient Roman
architect Vitruvius hypothesized the
mathematics of ratios to proportions but
couldn’t quite prove his theory should
be cracked it was only until years later
that da Vinci’s intricate sketch could
success a refined Vitruvius theories and
perfectly illustrate them and keen
observation the Renaissance man
revolutionized approaches to scientific
research through the use of
art in his interdisciplinary perspective
starting the Scientific Revolution da
Vinci embodied a scientist within an
artist ultimately proving to us how art
is also a method of research next let us
consider natural phenomena an artist
accidental discovery was only first
noticed in 2004 when the Hubble Space
Telescope captured an image of an
expanding supergiant the image led
scientists to notice an eerie
resemblance the genres are boarded the
photograph bears remarkable similarities
to a famous work complete with
never-before-seen spirals of dust
swirling in trillions of miles of
interstellar space the scientists
globally digitized the painting and
measured brightness variation between
pixels ultimately proving their
suspicions should be correct they
discovered a scaling law with the same
repeated patterns at different scales
forming a ratio like in the statistical
theory of turbulence do any of you
perhaps notice the resemblance to a
famous work well here is your answer
everyone knows starry night the famous
painting by renowned artist Vincent van
Gogh well this beautiful painting has
been greatly appreciated for its use of
color and scenery it is lesser known
that van Gogh accurately portrayed a
scientific phenomenon
they’ll be discovered 60 years later
this theory is called turbulent flow and
fluid dynamics where light resembles a
fluid
according to Britannica turbulence is a
type of flow in which the fluid
undergoes irregular fluctuations or
mixing the speed of a fluid at a point
is constantly changing in both magnitude
and direction in simpler terms
turbulence is the way light moves swirls
and interacts with itself
Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov
hypothesized his mathematical theory of
turbulence 60 years after van Gogh
painted starry night coma girl fin vesta
gated Eddie’s which occurs that diverge
away from the main pattern of a current
and generally flow in circular motions
creating turbulence in their irregular
patterns he tempted to explain these
irregular patterns with a mathematical
formula called the 5/3 law it related
the size of one Eddy of light to five
thirds the power of its energy now’s us
5/3 ratio present in starry night
well surely enough it is with coma
graphs approach we can observe that
large Eddie’s will disperse into smaller
ones similar to an energy cascade which
appears everywhere in oceans in cloud
formations in interstellar dust
particles and in Jupiter’s famous red
spot the miracle of Van Gogh’s art is
that a period of intense suffering he
was able to represent one of the most
supremely difficult concepts of nature
down to mathematical precision combining
the mysteries of fluid and light in his
illustrations of stars and clouds
passing and turbulent swirls what is
most fascinating is that turbulence
cannot be observed by the human eye the
true mystery lies and not the theory of
fluid dynamics but in exactly how van
Gogh saw and represented the effect of
moving light his perception was so
accurate that his artwork could
perfectly align with the scientific
principle displaying to us that
observation from two perspectives our
and science can produce the same results
perhaps van Gogh’s genius approach to
observation and seeking understanding of
the world surrounding him ultimately led
to the flawless expression of science
now let us consider systems within art
take a look at for example linear
perspective perspective is a systematic
method to real
art into reality Renaissance artist Leon
Battista Alberti and architect Filippo
Brunelleschi developed it during the
15th century to transform flat imagery
into revolutionary three-dimensional
scenery their solution was simple
converge all straight lines into a
single point called the vanishing point
with their method of plotting points and
using lines in a systematic way they
could magically give a painting form and
depth one vanishing point perspective is
still consistently used in art work
today in science systems and theories
are applied to always hold true in
nature like the force of gravity in
artwork linear perspective is also an
applied system which always yields
dimension to convey reality now let’s
take a look at a different system the
golden ratio is a special mathematical
proportion that is present all
throughout the natural world examine
nature closely and you’ll find it in
oceans and cloud formations and spiral
galaxies and flower petals and shells
the so-called divine proportion gets its
name for infusing balanced beauty and
visual harmony it’s no wonder that the
ratio is carefully utilized in famous
artwork like the Last Supper or the
School of Athens great artists have
subconsciously noticed this mathematical
proportion and embedded into law the
golden ratio became their solution to
creating pleasing aesthetics like
perspective is it is yeah another
example of a system within art similarly
to the way theories and systems in
science define the natural world
perspective and the golden ratio to find
the visual one so what we can learn from
da Vinci’s approach to observation van
Gogh’s Starry Night and the use of
perspective in the golden ratio
is that just like science art is the
pursuit of truth they’re like two roads
converging to the same destination we
can define science as the understanding
of how the natural world works through
observing physical evidence and art does
exactly that perhaps once we realize
that these two disparate fields have the
same purpose we can once again
revolutionize the scientific method
evoke radical innovation or overcome
difficult scientific concepts through
producing artwork in today’s rapidly
changing world we are transitioning from
stem to steam as art trespasses over new
boundaries there’s a whole future of
possibility the emergence of a new
artistic genre called bio art the study
of the alchemy of paint or the
employment of arts therapy as a new
medical approach to healing and chronic
disease patients the modern fusion of
our and science is unfolding everywhere
such as the orbit pavilion and NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory this golden
ratio infused dome is more than just a
sculpture step inside and you’ll hear
tracking signals of 19 satellites and
the international space station like it
helped us better understand the earth
and possibly communicate with other
spacecrafts throughout history and even
today we have seen that art and science
couldn’t be more related to one another
it is the artists employment of
observation of the world surrounding
them that allows the artist to achieve
aristotle’s in word significance in
seeking to grasp a new understanding it
has been too long that we have viewed
the world categorically acknowledging
these centuries-old domains as discrete
from one another in order for us to look
towards the future and further harness
advanced concepts we must first
recognize that art is a science thank
you you
Aristotle the Greek philosopher and
scientist once declared in the 3rd
century BC the aim of art is represent
not the outward appearance of things but
their inward significance what he meant
by his definition of art is that a
painting is not the same as a photograph
because our incorporates the artists
interpretation his centuries-old
definition still resonates with us today
despite most of us being taught that art
is just a depiction of beauty it is
rather the installment of the artist
into their own perception the truth
today we try to discover the so-called
truth with science studying both the
physical and natural world with
experimentation and evidence but what
we’ve forgotten is that our undertakes
the same purpose with its emphasis on
empiricism artists use observation as
evidence these two fields are solutions
to the same problem how do we understand
the world around us they provoke us to
overcome the fear of the unknown to be
able to visualize things in our minds
and to observe the world acutely people
often tell me it’s unusual I chose to
invest myself into two completely
different realms but I disagree I don’t
think I have my name is Anna mischenko
and I’m both a passionate artist and
scientist and today I’m here to oppose
the common notion that art and science
are completely separate from one another
like many of you I used to believe that
art was simply self-expression combining
aesthetically pleasing images to create
pretty pictures drawn freely without any
rules and contrastingly that science was
rigid exploration integrating countless
data and experiments into hypotheses
however if we look towards two
historical examples for art reflected
scientific breakthroughs and a few ways
in which science is embedded inside of
artwork we can see the
art and science couldn’t be more related
and their approaches to observation that
art is a science in itself today I’ll
demonstrate how art is research how art
reflects natural phenomena and how art
is embedded with systems first let us
consider the research aspect during the
Enlightenment in the 15th and 16th
centuries Leonardo da Vinci though he
must commonly recognize him for his
famous artwork revolutionize approaches
to scientific research da Vinci was the
ultimate polymath a painter sculptor
inventor and scientist at his time most
people obtained their knowledge from
religious writings or from previous
scientists but he was the outlier da
Vinci refused the Bible as his textbook
and his stead turned towards his studies
of nature strolling along the arno and
investigating rock formations caves
flowers and fossils his observations
prompted him to start a notebook on the
human anatomy and 1489 recording in
great detail what he noticed about eye
sockets and the human muscle tendon and
skeletal systems and almost 20 years
later
da Vinci sparked a breakthrough in a
scientific career with the discovery of
the four powers the world movement
forced suede and percussion and his
studies of arms and legs led to the
invention of the lever but a success and
closely studying the human body didn’t
end there da Vinci’s renowned Vitruvius
man was at the epitome of art meets
science illustrating in-depth analysis
on the human proportion ancient Roman
architect Vitruvius hypothesized the
mathematics of ratios to proportions but
couldn’t quite prove his theory should
be cracked it was only until years later
that da Vinci’s intricate sketch could
success a refined Vitruvius theories and
perfectly illustrate them and keen
observation the Renaissance man
revolutionized approaches to scientific
research through the use of
art in his interdisciplinary perspective
starting the Scientific Revolution da
Vinci embodied a scientist within an
artist ultimately proving to us how art
is also a method of research next let us
consider natural phenomena an artist
accidental discovery was only first
noticed in 2004 when the Hubble Space
Telescope captured an image of an
expanding supergiant the image led
scientists to notice an eerie
resemblance the genres are boarded the
photograph bears remarkable similarities
to a famous work complete with
never-before-seen spirals of dust
swirling in trillions of miles of
interstellar space the scientists
globally digitized the painting and
measured brightness variation between
pixels ultimately proving their
suspicions should be correct they
discovered a scaling law with the same
repeated patterns at different scales
forming a ratio like in the statistical
theory of turbulence do any of you
perhaps notice the resemblance to a
famous work well here is your answer
everyone knows starry night the famous
painting by renowned artist Vincent van
Gogh well this beautiful painting has
been greatly appreciated for its use of
color and scenery it is lesser known
that van Gogh accurately portrayed a
scientific phenomenon
they’ll be discovered 60 years later
this theory is called turbulent flow and
fluid dynamics where light resembles a
fluid
according to Britannica turbulence is a
type of flow in which the fluid
undergoes irregular fluctuations or
mixing the speed of a fluid at a point
is constantly changing in both magnitude
and direction in simpler terms
turbulence is the way light moves swirls
and interacts with itself
Russian mathematician Andrey Kolmogorov
hypothesized his mathematical theory of
turbulence 60 years after van Gogh
painted starry night coma girl fin vesta
gated Eddie’s which occurs that diverge
away from the main pattern of a current
and generally flow in circular motions
creating turbulence in their irregular
patterns he tempted to explain these
irregular patterns with a mathematical
formula called the 5/3 law it related
the size of one Eddy of light to five
thirds the power of its energy now’s us
5/3 ratio present in starry night
well surely enough it is with coma
graphs approach we can observe that
large Eddie’s will disperse into smaller
ones similar to an energy cascade which
appears everywhere in oceans in cloud
formations in interstellar dust
particles and in Jupiter’s famous red
spot the miracle of Van Gogh’s art is
that a period of intense suffering he
was able to represent one of the most
supremely difficult concepts of nature
down to mathematical precision combining
the mysteries of fluid and light in his
illustrations of stars and clouds
passing and turbulent swirls what is
most fascinating is that turbulence
cannot be observed by the human eye the
true mystery lies and not the theory of
fluid dynamics but in exactly how van
Gogh saw and represented the effect of
moving light his perception was so
accurate that his artwork could
perfectly align with the scientific
principle displaying to us that
observation from two perspectives our
and science can produce the same results
perhaps van Gogh’s genius approach to
observation and seeking understanding of
the world surrounding him ultimately led
to the flawless expression of science
now let us consider systems within art
take a look at for example linear
perspective perspective is a systematic
method to real
art into reality Renaissance artist Leon
Battista Alberti and architect Filippo
Brunelleschi developed it during the
15th century to transform flat imagery
into revolutionary three-dimensional
scenery their solution was simple
converge all straight lines into a
single point called the vanishing point
with their method of plotting points and
using lines in a systematic way they
could magically give a painting form and
depth one vanishing point perspective is
still consistently used in art work
today in science systems and theories
are applied to always hold true in
nature like the force of gravity in
artwork linear perspective is also an
applied system which always yields
dimension to convey reality now let’s
take a look at a different system the
golden ratio is a special mathematical
proportion that is present all
throughout the natural world examine
nature closely and you’ll find it in
oceans and cloud formations and spiral
galaxies and flower petals and shells
the so-called divine proportion gets its
name for infusing balanced beauty and
visual harmony it’s no wonder that the
ratio is carefully utilized in famous
artwork like the Last Supper or the
School of Athens great artists have
subconsciously noticed this mathematical
proportion and embedded into law the
golden ratio became their solution to
creating pleasing aesthetics like
perspective is it is yeah another
example of a system within art similarly
to the way theories and systems in
science define the natural world
perspective and the golden ratio to find
the visual one so what we can learn from
da Vinci’s approach to observation van
Gogh’s Starry Night and the use of
perspective in the golden ratio
is that just like science art is the
pursuit of truth they’re like two roads
converging to the same destination we
can define science as the understanding
of how the natural world works through
observing physical evidence and art does
exactly that perhaps once we realize
that these two disparate fields have the
same purpose we can once again
revolutionize the scientific method
evoke radical innovation or overcome
difficult scientific concepts through
producing artwork in today’s rapidly
changing world we are transitioning from
stem to steam as art trespasses over new
boundaries there’s a whole future of
possibility the emergence of a new
artistic genre called bio art the study
of the alchemy of paint or the
employment of arts therapy as a new
medical approach to healing and chronic
disease patients the modern fusion of
our and science is unfolding everywhere
such as the orbit pavilion and NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory this golden
ratio infused dome is more than just a
sculpture step inside and you’ll hear
tracking signals of 19 satellites and
the international space station like it
helped us better understand the earth
and possibly communicate with other
spacecrafts throughout history and even
today we have seen that art and science
couldn’t be more related to one another
it is the artists employment of
observation of the world surrounding
them that allows the artist to achieve
aristotle’s in word significance in
seeking to grasp a new understanding it
has been too long that we have viewed
the world categorically acknowledging
these centuries-old domains as discrete
from one another in order for us to look
towards the future and further harness
advanced concepts we must first
recognize that art is a science thank
you you
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