Horticulture: Art & Science for Life

Robotic Superstrings Installation: A-Life Science & Art

Superstrings Installations (Torino 2005, Cetraro 2005, Milano 2005) – where Art and Science were directly conjugated – pictures and movies have been later collected into a DVD produced in a strictly limited edition and in few copies. These DVDs have been part of a Generative Art Installation presented in Milano in December 2006. A small robotic artifact has been programmed with very simple rule...

Science and Culture: The art of designing life.

Artist Howard Boland arrived for his 2012 exhibit at the headquarters of London’s newspaper The Guardian toting Erlenmeyer flasks, plastic tubing, and glowing bacteria. Boland was eager to set up his exhibit “Stress-o-stat.” He hit a snag. Although Boland had followed safety protocols, security staff took one look at the biohazard symbols on his project materials and ejected him from the premis...

Art and Science. Part 1. The Art-Science Connection

The interaction between the worlds of wience and the humanities, as our readers know, has been a recurring theme in Current

Performance Art/Life Art/ Mediafication

Doing science making art

It is a challenge to balance doing both science and art, but I attempt both because each provides unique insight into perception and cognition, often to mutual benefit. The techniques I use in visual neuroscience (psychophysics, fMRI, microelectrode recording) are different from those I use in visual art (etching, watercolor and oil paint, glass and silk), but the process is always empirical, t...