November 26th, 2018

Naim June Paik: Nixon
Chris Burden: The Speed of Light Machine
Edwin Abbott: Flatland

These 3 works show ideas and creativity fluidly moving between realms of culture and science. They are by no means more important than many other examples. But I find all quite compelling at this moment in time.

Naim June Paik's piece Nixon uses something technologically complex, though simple in principle to alert us to underlying social and political issues. Chris Burden simply recreates a scientific apparatus, in doing so demonstrates one of the most beautifully simple, yet profound things, the finite speed of light. Edwin Abbots book tells a political satire, but does so through leaps of mathematical thought.

I thought these interesting examples to show the fluidity in creativity between disciplines.