{"id":45071,"date":"2017-06-26T17:19:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=45071"},"modified":"2017-06-26T17:19:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-26T16:19:31","slug":"flowing-art-and-science-and-music-and-dance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=45071","title":{"rendered":"Flowing; Art and Science and Music and Dance"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"8<\/a><\/strong>Alexander Whitley Dance Company \u2014 8 Minutes @ Sadler’s Wells copyright Johan Persson.<\/p>\n

Up until a few years ago, most people accepted that science and art were diametrically opposed to one another. The debate and argument seemed broadly related to the now outdated view that science and religion oppose each other.<\/p>\n

The change in public understanding is everywhere.<\/p>\n

You can now study a BASc in Arts & Sciences<\/a> at University College London and an MA in Art & Science<\/a> at Central Saint Martins \u2013 both institutions recognised globally for their exceptional research contributions. In fact, one of the most respected and forward thinking art blogs – We Make Money Not Art – focuses directly on\u00a0the intersection between art, science and social issues.<\/p>\n

Really, thinkers have been trying to debunk the fallacy of \u2018art vs science\u2019 for a while now; even Richard Dawkins defended the arts against this misinterpretation. In Unweaving the Rainbow<\/em><\/a> Dawkins attacks John Keats\u2019 accusation that Issac Newton had ruined the poetry of the rainbow by ‘reducing it to the prismatic colours.’ As a scientist and an atheist, Dawkins explains that he sees the world as full of wonders and pleasures and that understanding the processes of the rainbow, (the science of it all) beauty and grandeur are only intensified. It\u2019s this kind of pleasure and wonderment that affects artists who respond to science.<\/p>\n