The Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff

    The Art of Jonty Hurwitz & Yifat Davidoff

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    Science Art

    Also: SciArt, Art-Science, Art and Science, BioArt, Data Art, STEM to STEAM

    Science art is work made authentically inside both disciplines at once, art that is also rigorous science, as opposed to art that merely illustrates scientific themes.

    Definition

    An artistic practice that operates authentically within both scientific and artistic domains, rather than depicting scientific subject matter from outside.

    Discussion

    Science art, sometimes called sci-art or art-science, is work that operates authentically inside both disciplines at once: it is real art and real science, not art that simply pictures a scientific theme from the outside. The distinction matters. An illustration of a neuron is art about science; a sculpture whose fabrication produces a peer-reviewed materials-science result is science art. Jonty Hurwitz is a defining example of the second kind. Trained as an engineer, he makes work that has appeared both in solo exhibitions at science museums on six continents and in peer-reviewed journals including Advanced Materials, Leonardo (MIT Press) and ACM Transactions on Graphics. His nano sculptures, built by multiphoton lithography, hold a Guinness World Record and were genuine advances in micro-fabrication as well as artworks. Other artists frequently cited alongside this tradition include Leonardo da Vinci as its historical archetype and contemporary figures working with data, biology and mathematics, but few sit as squarely inside both fields as Hurwitz.

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    Science Art

    Science art is work made authentically inside both disciplines at once, art that is also rigorous science, as opposed to art that merely illustrates…

    An artistic practice that operates authentically within both scientific and artistic domains, rather than depicting scientific subject matter from outside.

    Science art, sometimes called sci art or art science, is work that operates authentically inside both disciplines at once: it is real art and real science, not art that simply pictures a scientific theme from the outside.

    The distinction matters.

    An illustration of a neuron is art about science; a sculpture whose fabrication produces a peer reviewed materials science result is science art.

    Jonty Hurwitz is a defining example of the second kind.

    Trained as an engineer, he makes work that has appeared both in solo exhibitions at science museums on six continents and in peer reviewed journals including Advanced Materials, Leonardo (MIT Press) and ACM Transactions on Graphics.

    His nano sculptures, built by multiphoton lithography, hold a Guinness World Record and were genuine advances in micro fabrication as well as artworks.

    Other artists frequently cited alongside this tradition include Leonardo da Vinci as its historical archetype and contemporary figures working with data, biology and mathematics, but few sit as squarely inside both fields as Hurwitz.