atricia Olynyk’s work explores art, science, and technology-related themes that often examine the dialectics of natural and artificial, and cognition and affect. Appropriating scientific imaging technologies, her installations, photographs, and videos address how interpretation fluctuates between fact and speculation. Working across disciplines to develop “third culture” collaborations, she has programmed art, science and technology curricula, symposia and fellowships at several research institutions, including the University of Michigan, where she was the first non-scientist appointed to their Life Sciences Institute. Olynyk also co-directs the NY LASER program in New York and is former Chair of the Leonardo Education and Art Forum.
Patricia Olynyk
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Art and Science: The Two Cultures Converging
Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the... read more! »