Category: Thoughts & Opinions
Getting Over Art and Science
Nice Topic, Getting Over Art and Science Posted in: “Art Meets Science: Get Over It” In the Linkedin Scientist Artists Collaborations Group T.Collins, 2012 August When given a chance I often ask people how they would define Leonardo da Vinci, as an artist or scientist? Of course academia has come a long way since the…
Thinking Art and Bio Remediation
Thinking Art and Bio-Remediation an American perspective. T.Collins, In a conversation recently with Tim Joye in Flanders, we got to talking about remediation art. 2012, July First a few references: http://nmr.collinsandgoto.com/weblinks/frost/FrostTop.html http://greenmuseum.org/c/ecovention/, and http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ffYQeG4MrRAC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false There is a lot of potential for artists to work on these issues, although I have argued in the past that…
A Conversation: Art with Living Things
in DiscussionCamperdown Wildlife Centre, June 2012 Organized by Jonathan Baxter, Dundee, Scotland A Conversation: Art and Life with Living Things Reiko Goto Collins and Timothy Martin Collins, June 2012 Art is the practice of creative inquiry. It is about knowing the world by wrapping body and mind around it, by putting your hands, heart and soul…
An Artist’s Ecological Biography
in ReflectionsTimothy M Collins, An Artist’s Ecological Biography Summer, 2012After nine months adrift in the great amniotic sea, I emerged cold and wailing on the shores of the Pawtuxet River. In a place that is notable as it was once the site of such salmon runs that separatists from Roger Williams’s original band of religious immigrants…