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There is a beautiful link between the arts and science.  Jim Collins didn't explicitly speak about this but reminded me of it.  Perhaps we often forget that the most important advancements in the arts happen through a rigorous, diligent, empirical, scientific investigation and the most important advancements in the sciences happen through creative, imaginative, artistic moments. 

posted by Zack Winokur.
June 12, 2008 4:24 PM | | Comments (2)

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By Louise King Lanzilotti on June 12, 2008 11:50 PM

Not a new book but a great book on the connection between art and breakthroughs in science is the book Art and Physics by Leonard Shlain.

By Doug Fox on June 12, 2008 6:38 PM

Zack,

I couldn't agree with you more about link between arts and science. It's something I continue to look for more examples of.

One of the main focuses of my Kinetic Interface blog is to explore this connection as it relates to dance and science.

Here are few recent posts related to this intersection:

- Wayne McGregor's Random Dance Explores Cognition and Artificial Intelligence

- Armitage Gone! Dance to Explore "The Elegant Universe" at the Guggenheim: I write preview of this performance that grapples with theoretical physics. The actual performance was a pleasure to see.

- Dance Helps Improve Movement and Balance of People with Parkinson's Disease - I attended the PD dance class at Mark Morris in Brooklyn 2 weeks ago. It was fun dance class that merged ballet, jazz and modern.

If you come across programs at conference that cover links between art and science, please blog about them.

Enjoy the conference!

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About this blog From April 1 through June 9, 2008, weekly entries were posted here by some of the performing arts community's top bloggers. This 10-week intensive series served as a unique forum for digital debate and brainstorming, and both the entries and comments were archived for use at the live NPAC sessions in June. 

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