Art, Science, Media

Jo Groebel

At present we face three fundamental developments:

Digitalisation and technological development of communication and information systems create a new view on the world due to the pure fact of acceleration and the possibility of new kinds of analysis.
The relationship between art and science is dynamic and sees a permanent re-definition. This relationship takes place on the spectrum between intuitive observation of reality and its future on the one side and exact empirical measurement on the other. Some of those facts, believed to be true for a very long time, as well as the enlightenment paradigm are partly challenged today. Obviously, there is no such thing as a forever valid representation of reality.
The neurosciences demonstrate that even the old model of man as a primarily rationally acting and deciding being is at stake. In everyday life it is usually not the cognitive processes which result in decisions and judgements but intuitive and sub-cognitive considerations.

In this context the marriage of methods of exact science and new creative forms of expression based on the arts plays a major role. One can describe art verbally but its real strength lies in perception processes which are based on visual and other approaches. In addition, art and the evaluation of art are embedded in highly differentiated social judgement processes. Group pressure, opinion leadership are important for the recipients as well as the intuition re-future social reality for the artist.

Gabriele Leidloff’s approach forms a bridge where she combines the different kinds of art and art reception with scientific content and methods. This combination is at the core of experiencing and understanding the digital world. There may not be answers but this bridge can offer the opportunity for a new voyage for arts and sciences. New forms of communication and of the media have always offered such opportunities. Thus, there are three guilds: The arts, the sciences and the media.

The European Institute for the Media will accompany the respective events and processes during the production l o g - i n / l o c k e d o u t as partner.