Snow Noise

Science and art are systems of knowledge with a lot in common: each grapples with the status quo - challenging the manner in which we interpret the world around us, engaged in a constant search to find a new vocabulary which can articulate the human condition. Both are dreamt up behind closed doors - be it the laboratory or the studio - the secrets of their art clear only to close disciples, and both have their claim to controversy, whether it’s the latest development in stem-cell research or a fish in formaldehyde. Yet they remain fiercely separate from one another in the mind of the public - a division that begins in the school curriculum and persists in the media. Science is heralded as progressive, art at best as a subversive form of critique, at worst as a pretty picture or frivolous sensationalism.

Graphik - Special Report: Art Theory

Carsten Nicolai at Eigen-Art