Date of Award
Winter 12-3-2016
Degree Name
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
Restricted/Unrestricted
Unrestricted
Abstract
Abstract: Despite a modern conception of art and science as being fundamentally opposed, both have at their core a desire to explain the inexplicable. Their investigations and the communication of the results of these investigations can be blurred at both poetic and analytical junctions. Vivified abstract thought, or the poetic, can be thought of as instigating the ubiquitous desire to explain the inexplicable. Fruitful analysis of resulting data and representation of that data must consider the idiom of both art and science if it is to successfully cross between them, and special emphasis must be placed on the diagram as a way to navigate the boundary between the real and the imaginary. My recombination of the real into the imaginary mimics the biological processes by which encoded information is turned into a new product, renewing that which has been preserved in stasis.
Mentor/Primary Advisor
Prof. Michael Byron
Recommended Citation
David, Caitlin M., "Art and Science: Blurring the Poetic and the Analytical" (2016). Bachelor of Fine Arts Senior Papers. 10.
https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/bfa/10