Strange and Charmed
Science and the Contemporary Visual Arts

This work is one of the first books to examine the relationship between science and contemporary art and to chart the new work beginning to emerge from artist/scientist collaborations. Contributors include distinguished art historian Martin Kemp and artist Andrea Duncan.

Bizarre consequences - introduction and background
the scientist's mind - the artist's temperament
many complex collisions - new directions for art in science
between explanation and inspiration - images in science
us and them, this and that, here and there, now and then - collecting, classifying, creating
creativity and the making of contemporary art
uncertain entanglements
inside - outside - permutation - science and the body in contemporary art
fission or fusion - art, science and society.