Art inspired by science has boomed as artists have embraced scientific methods to further their work - it's time science returned the compliment
"I THINK understanding comes from being and doing rather than being given data. And, in that respect, I apply scientific empiricism to its exact opposite." So says the sculptor Antony Gormley, whose recent work focuses on the painstaking construction of scenarios within which people are mostly free to behave as they wish (see "Anthony Gormley: I engineer experience").
Such an uncontrolled approach to experimentation would make many scientists uncomfortable. But in an age when behaviour can be tracked electronically - as anthropologists are beginning to do - it's easy to imagine how the group dynamics prompted by experiments like Gormley's might be recorded and analysed.
Art inspired by science has boomed as artists have embraced scientific methods to further their work. Perhaps it's time science returned the compliment.
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