Comments on: In the Other Room http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/11/29/in-the-other-room/ Random samplings from a universe of ideas. Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:03:16 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/11/29/in-the-other-room/comment-page-1/#comment-7838 Clifford Fri, 02 Dec 2005 23:34:39 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/11/29/in-the-other-room/#comment-7838 Updated post to mention the celebration the studios are having...! -cvj Updated post to mention the celebration the studios are having…!

-cvj

]]> By: Clifford http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/11/29/in-the-other-room/comment-page-1/#comment-7837 Clifford Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:12:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/11/29/in-the-other-room/#comment-7837 Pyracantha.... for what it's worth, I'm a professional Physicists and also when I have time I'm a struggling musician and a struggling artist. I probably suck at them. You probably bring more people closer to physics than I will ever bring to art or music by dabbling in them. What you do has value. Cheers, -cvj Pyracantha…. for what it’s worth, I’m a professional Physicists and also when I have time I’m a struggling musician and a struggling artist. I probably suck at them. You probably bring more people closer to physics than I will ever bring to art or music by dabbling in them. What you do has value.

Cheers,

-cvj

]]> By: Pyracantha http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/11/29/in-the-other-room/comment-page-1/#comment-7836 Pyracantha Thu, 01 Dec 2005 06:04:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2005/11/29/in-the-other-room/#comment-7836 Art and Physics: the unspoken genderedness of it. If I'm lucky no one will read this, but I'm gonna say it anyway at my own risk. In this country (USA) artists on the local to moderate level are almost all women (with the major exception of comic book and science fiction artists). As the "ranks" of the artists rise and their art goes for more money and prestige, there are more males. "Fine" art on a local level has been "feminized." This has consequences for the art/physics interface. Artists who are fascinated with physics (or other sciences) do pictures/installations etc. of varying quality with evocative titles but the artists for the most part don't do any "real" (mathematical) physics. Many of them are starry-eyed females who might wish they could run among the physicists but must content themselves with making pretty pictures inspired by popularly understood physics concepts. How do I know this? Because I'm just like this and no matter how hard I struggle to rise above it, I won't. Art and Physics: the unspoken genderedness of it. If I’m lucky no one will read this, but I’m gonna say it anyway at my own risk. In this country (USA) artists on the local to moderate level are almost all women (with the major exception of comic book and science fiction artists). As the “ranks” of the artists rise and their art goes for more money and prestige, there are more males. “Fine” art on a local level has been “feminized.”

This has consequences for the art/physics interface. Artists who are fascinated with physics (or other sciences) do pictures/installations etc. of varying quality with evocative titles but the artists for the most part don’t do any “real” (mathematical) physics. Many of them are starry-eyed females who might wish they could run among the physicists but must content themselves with making pretty pictures inspired by popularly understood physics concepts. How do I know this? Because I’m just like this and no matter how hard I struggle to rise above it, I won’t.

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