ART AND SCIENCE
to the memory of Rene Rebetez

SANART 4th International Symposium and Art Events
1-3 June 2000
METU Cultural and Convention Center, Ankara

Symposium Themes

New Visualities:

Film and Visual Art - New Aesthetics and the revelation of new concerns
Virtual Reality - How do the new visual technologies effect our quotidian and ethical and aesthetic responses
Video - The new and uncanny visuality of video, its new poetics; what new awarenesses can it offer?

Architecture:

Technology - New technologies offer new possiibilities of form and habitat
Ecology - New building technologies and their ecological aspects
New Spaces - With new technological and scientific possibilities, can we expand our knowledge and experience of architectural space?

Space Age:

Science Fiction - What new attitudes and philosophies along with the visual possibilities of space age technologies have emerged?
Space and new poetics - New Aesthetic orders and forms related to space age experiences
Science and Myth - The poetry and myths of new science

The Body:

Robotics - What are the new implications of the technology of robotics for humanity, and how will art be affected?
Medicine - New art's discovery and use of medicine and its various technologies as well as philosophies
Body as Myth and Machine - Since Dada, the human body has played a vital role in new forms of art as inspiration and also raw material.

Eastern Perspectives:

Sufism's contributions to ethics and aesthetics
Eastern Sciences - Historical overview, and the eastern attitude towards science and art
Myth and Science - Are there still realms of knowledge and insight in the non-western world which can furnish us with new aesthetic inputs.


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