Reading this article by Stephen Wilson, I was very intrigued at all of the cool and interesting art and science projects that were mentioned. The main themes that I got from the article were these:
- Experimentation
- Someone can be both a scientist and an artist
- Both science and art are always evolving, and therefore always changing the specific influence each has on the other
One of my favorite project that Wilson mentioned was the CabSpotting project, where taxi movement in San Francisco was observed and recorded, and then transferred to the form of a heat map showing the popular spots. I especially liked that one because I’m from San Francisco, so I could recognize all of the places that had the most Taxi activity. The dataset can be found below.
CabSpotting, 2005 (San Francisco)
The main purpose statement that I thought Wilson was trying to get across with this article was that science and art influence one another, and the more they clash, the more their definitions will be controversial.
Some topics that I want to learn more about that were mentioned in the article include:
- The Aphrodite Project, which made shoes for sex workers, equipped with GPS and cellphone technologies so they could send their location and messages in emergencies
- Have artists updated historically sanctioned forms and media such as sculpture or dance? And to what extent?
- What CabSpotting areas of San Francisco were most popular? And how do they compare to my expectations of the results?
Some topics that I wanted to know more about include:
- Cave art and Cavemen
- Stonehenge
- Leonardo da Vinci and other renaissance creatives
- Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek, inventor of the modern microscope and developer of cells
- Linda Dalrymple Henderson