What is Reality of?: Symbiosis Between Art, Science and Technology.
Abstract
Technological advances in the 20th century have powered the development of the sciences and the humanities, nevertheless, we are still far from answering the question already raised by the pre- socratic philosophers: What is reality made of? What is its substance, its essence?Without any doubts, we are experiencing a technological revolution that is transforming and extending our perception of reality. Such transformation manifests itself at both microscopic and macroscopic levels and intends to advance our knowledge of the universe and of ourselves by generating new models of representation, that on the one hand revise strict mechanistic and deterministic concepts of reality, and that on the other question the existence of absolute knowledge. In this article we explore the contributions of the artist to the creation of such models, discuss the relevance of interdisciplinary research in art, specifically in relation to interactive art and virtual reality, and propose the use of symbiogenesis as a model for implementing interdisciplinary research.
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