Ways of knowing symposium

I found this interesting thing from a friends post on facebook, and since I'm blogging from ipod I realized it didn't copy the links. Oh well, google it up.

A Ways of Knowing: Art and Science's Shared Imagination

Perspectives from the Sciences, Humanities and Creative Arts

An interdisciplinary staff research symposium at the School of Creative Arts hosted by the Art Research Group. Convened by Simeon Nelson, Professor of Sculpture
Dedicated to Robert Priddey, 1975-2010.
When?
29-30 September 2010
Where?
Venue will be announced closer to the event

About the symposium
This symposium is motivated by the sense of wonder shared by artists and scientists at the complex cosmos we inhabit. It forms part of the celebration of the first anniversary of the Faculty of Science, Technology and Creative Arts and is a step toward what will hopefully be a longer-term interdisciplinary research effort in science and art within the new faculty. This first meeting is deliberately broad in scope hoping to uncover as much work in science-art with the University as possible.
If art and science are understood as equally necessary and complementary ways of knowing the world, how does this understanding enrich them? What type of knowledge is produced by the numerous art-science collaborations and interdisciplinary art-science courses that have grown up internationally in the last few decades? What has been the main purpose and impact of these, to interpret and disseminate scientific knowledge or something more fundamental?

Further questions would be: do artists engaging with scientists affect the outcome of any science being done? Can art be a contribution to knowledge? Can science contribute to meaning in a way similar to the arts and humanities? What is the nature of discovery and creativity in art and science? Philosophical questions might look at how the value judgments of the creative arts and the falsifiable statements of science interact when they come together.

Invited external speakers:
Tony Longson, Professor of Art, Cal State University, Los Angeles, Artist in Residence, School of Engineering, Hatfield Polytechnic 1975
Roger Malina, astrophysicist and chairman of the board of Leonardo, International Society for Art, Science and Technology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (not yet confirmed)

Call for Papers
Submissions from any discipline are welcome. Of particular interest would be perspectives from astrophysics, the computational and engineering sciences, music, the visual and media arts, the physical and life sciences, psychology and the philosophy and history of art and science. Abstracts of 200-300 words for papers of 20 minutes should be submitted as e-mail attachments in word to Simeon Nelson , by 15 June2010. Please include paper title, name and job title of presenter and contact details.

More information
Professor Simeon Nelson
School of Creative Arts