On 23, May I attended Claudia Schnugg’s lecture at CNSI. She gave a lecture about the projects and researches she has been doing and the results, briefly introduced us to her new book, and introduced us to the idea that nowadays artists will reside a couple of months in the science community to work with scientists to get inspirations. This idea is very inspiring and refreshing for me, and it got me thinking, why aren’t scientists getting inspirations from artists the same way? As an engineering major, I can see how scientists and engineers are busy with their own work and research, and underestimate the value of the time commitment to stay in art community. However, as Claudia Schnugg has mentioned, artists get many information from this experience, I believe scientists will also benefit a lot from living with artists.
During her lecture, when she talked about the importance of specialization and diversity, especially between art and science, I strongly agree with her ideas. It is largely because of this diversity that collaboration between these two fields become very valuable. As we have learned in this course, art and science facilitate each other a lot, one of the reason is that they are so different and yet so internally connected. So in my understanding, this idea of making artists reside in the science community for a while or vice versa is much better than requiring people to manage to learn both. With the opportunities for artists to get to live with scientists within the science community, they will gain access to new knowledge, clash of different approaches, different feeling towards their own work, etc. We can see how this benefits the artists by giving them new inspirations and ideas.
For the scientists side, I feel they are missing great opportunities without collaborating with artists through getting to know them and living with them. Although they are indeed busy, I feel the main problem is still about their underestimation of art. I can see many scientists like doing art themselves, but they still view it as merely entertainment. However, art can provide them much more, such as new perspectives about current project and creative and new ideas. I feel the opportunities are largely limited as well. So maybe in the future we should devote more for the scientists to get the chances to know more about artists.
After this lecture, the lecturer’s ideas largely inspire me. Through her words, I can feel that art is everywhere in our life. From economics, management, to science and engineering, art never failed to surprise and inspire us in our daily life. From a movie that we watched to an aesthetic choice of a room decoration, art influences us everyday. I have the feeling that not only art and science, but any two subjects will benefit from each other.
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