Art and science are not so difficult to associate with one
another since there is so much technology involved in creating
art. But the marriage between art and science is about more than
just the creation, it’s about inspiration meeting functionality.
Artists have been taking queues from science for years. Art
consistently meets science in the techno-colored photographs
taken of the universe as it expands. It can be found in the way
that cells, micro organisms and ice crystals form the most
precise yet masterfully chaotic of patterns. A certain aesthetic
beauty can even be found in the MRI of a human brain. Recently,
science has found compatibility within the textile industry. The
University of the Arts in London and a few Nobel Prize winning
scientists and research fellows from Central Saint Martins
College have combined forces in order to form Nobel Textiles.
Each artist has been paired up with a scientist for inspiration
and will put their work on display at London’s Design Festival
on 14-21 September 2008