Synopsis
Eleven scientists and artists answer the question, how can "complexity" be utilized to find the common ground between their two so very different worlds?. Since the beginnings of the scientific mode of thinking in the 16th century, science and art have appeared as polar opposites: science with its cold logic and art with its transcendent beauty. Yet both scientists and artists are seekers after truth. In the spring of 1998, a small group of scientists and artists joined veteran scientist-author John L. Casti in a tiny Swedish village, far north of the Arctic circle, to examine the great promise that the emerging science of complexity holds for uniting these two ancient, disparate ways of thought. From Nobel physicist Murray Gell-Mann's ruminations on "Regularities and Randomness" to artist Gail Wright's forthright "Thought Sweat," these eleven essays take us deep into the minds of some of the most creative people on earth and offer insights into the exciting possibility of the fusion of art and science.
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Revue de presse
John de Rivaz
....a testament to the ongoing ability of artists and scientists to communicate to unravel mysteries in the world around us.....
The fractal Translight Newsletter
George J. Klir
This is a stimulating book that I can wholeheartedly recommend to all readers who are interested in art, music or literature
International Journal of General Systems
Présentation de l'éditeur
This title is the result of a one-week workshop sponsored by the Swedish research agency, FRN, on the interface between complexity and art. Among others, it includes discussions on whether "good" art is "complex" art, how artists see the term "complex", and what poets try to convey in word about complex behavior in nature.
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