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Granada, March 10, 2015

Art, Science and Distributed Creativity

CARLOS M. FERNANDES Institute for Systems and Robotics (ISR/IST) LARSyS, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisboa www.carlosmfernandes.com

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Creativity in art does not seem to me essentially different from

scientific creativity or any other act of creation known to mankind.

Frank J. Malina (1954)

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Rocket engineer and painter.

Founder of Leonardo journal

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Frank J. Malina (1912-1981)

Frank J. Malina, “Flowers,” 1964.

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Creativity (in art and science)

Computational Generative Art

Humanities and Natural Sciences: schism, dialogues and

misconceptions

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Archimedes(c. 287 AC-c. 212 AC)

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Statue of Archimedes in Manchester

Archimedes’ Principle

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Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

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Photo: Harold Edgerton

Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation

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François Jacob (1920-2013)

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Friedrich Kekulé (1829-1896)

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Creativity on the Edge of Chaos

Hypnagogia

(between wakefulness and sleep) Wakefulness Sleep

E.O. Wilson: «In dreams we are insane.»

order chaos

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Serendipity

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Pollock (2000) – 0.50

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Taylor, R.; Micolich, Adam P.; Jonas, David, Can Science Be Used To Further Our Understanding Of Art?

Rather than mimicking Nature, Pollock adopted its

language - fractals - to build his own patterns.

When asked if he used nature as a source of inspiration for his work, Pollock responded, "I am

nature!"

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Anna Opperman (1940-1993)

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Warnke, M., Wedemeyer, C.

Documenting Artistic Networks: Anna

Oppermann’s Ensembles are Complex

Networks!

2010

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Creativity

Margaret Boden

Conceptual Space: Structured system of thought.

Creativity

Combinatorial

Explorative

Transformative

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Schism

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Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?

Lamia, John Keats (1819)

Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet’s heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? Soneto à Ciência, Edgar Allan Poe (1829)

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Umberto Boccioni

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Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)

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Etienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904)

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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

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Nu Descendant un Escalier, No.2, 1912

Woman Walking Downstairs, 1887

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Harold Edgerton (1903-1990)

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Photography and Eugenics

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Francis Galton (1822-1911)

Composite Portraits

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Photosynthesis

Krzysztof Pruszkowski

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Idris Khan (n. 1978)

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Bernd and Hilla Becher Idris Kahn

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Hiroshi Sugimoto (n.1948)

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«To be a good photographer, you have to be a scientist as well.»

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Computational Art

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Computational Art

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The Machine: as seen at the end of mechanical age

1968, The Museum of Modern Art, New

York

The possibilities inherent in the computer as a

creative tool will do little to change those

idioms of art which rely primarily on the

dialogue between the artist, his ideas and

the canvas. They will, however, increase the scope

of art and contribute to its diversity.

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Generative Art

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Max Ernst, La Planète Affolée, 1942

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Arte Artificial e Algoritmos Genéticos GAAL’98

Evolutionary Art

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Pherographia/Pherography

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Photography – drawing with light

Pherography – drawing with pheromones

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Pherographia

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Timor Mortis Conturbat Me

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Carlos M. Fernandes, 2008

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The Horse and the Ants

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Carlos M. Fernandes, 2009

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Carlos M. Fernandes, 2010

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KANTS

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Pherogenic Sleep Drawings

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Carlos M. Fernandes, 2011

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Data KANTS Habitat

RGB

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Data

KANTS

habitat

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Abstracting the Abstract #1

(after Mondrian)

Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012

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Abstracting the Abstract #2

(after Pollock)

Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012

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Abstracting the Abstract #3

(after Kupka)

Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012

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Abstracting the Abstract #4

(after Kandinsky)

Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012

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Abstracting the Abstract #5

(after Miró)

Carlos M. Fernandes, 2012

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The End

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Há na heterodoxia científica um paralelo com a artística, um sentido

estético para a literatura e para as artes, e um sentido cognitivo para as

ciências.

Sebastião Formosinho

http://reflex5.theportfolioproject.org/