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There is very little that I know about biology and whenever I come across the terms that ring a bell since high school I get extremely excited. Its a great way to learn and educate oneself, through curosity. But I wonder how far does 'curiosity to learn' justify the ethical reponsibilities that one must undertake while interacting with life. | There is very little that I know about biology and whenever I come across the terms that ring a bell since high school I get extremely excited. Its a great way to learn and educate oneself, through curosity. But I wonder how far does 'curiosity to learn' justify the ethical reponsibilities that one must undertake while interacting with life. | ||
| − | On the other hand its all beautiful and why not indulge, for doing is a way thinking, a way of questioning! | + | On the other hand its all beautiful and why not indulge, for doing is a way of thinking, a way of questioning! |
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| + | When one sees, one believes and that is the principle science works on, today I probably saw why that happens or where scientists come from. It for sure blows your mind away to see in real/experience science and its wonders. Today was the first day spent at National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS). | ||
Revision as of 17:43, 19 May 2009
I have been a student of art for as long as I remember- different mediums of self expression have engulfed me at different points in time, but largely I have been a performing artist presently studying the visual arts. The varying disciplines often create a conflict and often create solutions to the same self created conflicts as well. To inculcate science within the realms of ethics, aesthetics, philosophy and love, which are all integral to art seems like a direction towards a journey I want to explore. The symbiotic relationships as well as the independence of the elements in nature intrigue me. There is a need to be in sync with nature and using science as a tool to facilitate that process than curbing it's natural creativity is what I hope to achieve.
15th May 2009
I was a little apprehensive of where this project and interaction would go, but I am only glad to encounter its strong philosophical backbone integrated with biology. There were some readings that have caught my attention and I have drawn the following understandings from them: -
- The artist is like a conduit between specialized knowledge fields and other members of a public sphere meaning to say that one is not taking away or challenging the role of a specialist but as an artist one is only enhancing the specialized knowledge with considerations that specialties might not accommodate.
- Artists agree to engage/associate/learn from and in society and public places. IN such situations autonomy is always conditional, always negotiable.
- Art more often than not occupies a place in metalanguage since it has a higher relationship with the symbolic therefore connecting us to realms such as ethics, aesthetics society, philosophy. This might be the purpose of even calling something art.
16th May 2009
These sketches are a completely fictional scientific logic of how I would want to create a bacterium called actinodopaine. This bacteria would detect the neuro-transmitter in humans called Dopamine that is secreted while feeling love. Once it detects this it would emit the odour of wet earth as a result of rain.
This idea was inspired by a basic instinct of human beings to love and be loved, but very seldom in these fast paced times is there the time or motivation to demonstrate it.
18th May 2009
I wonder whether I am tampering with Nature through sheer neglect and ignorance?
There is very little that I know about biology and whenever I come across the terms that ring a bell since high school I get extremely excited. Its a great way to learn and educate oneself, through curosity. But I wonder how far does 'curiosity to learn' justify the ethical reponsibilities that one must undertake while interacting with life.
On the other hand its all beautiful and why not indulge, for doing is a way of thinking, a way of questioning!
19th May 2009
When one sees, one believes and that is the principle science works on, today I probably saw why that happens or where scientists come from. It for sure blows your mind away to see in real/experience science and its wonders. Today was the first day spent at National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS).
