In this unit art and science are brought together to make New Worlds. The emphasis is on lens-based technology as both scientific instrument and artistic medium. The course will examine the methodologies that construct the worldviews of science and art, and means by which scientific methods can be used for artistic purpose and vice-versa. Pseudo-science, scientific hoaxes, and science fiction and its mythologies are also subject to investigation and creation. Lectures will present examples of artists exploring science and scientists who use or investigate art or discover aesthetic means of visualising data. Photography exists only because of scientific and artistic interest in recording... -- Course Website
Instructor: D Armstrong
Prerequisites: Completion of Level two units in a Bachelor of Creative Arts major sequence.
