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[Enzo Minarelli <3vitre@iii.it>]

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Eugene Thacker wrote:

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> Of course the interesting thing here is not so much in attempting to
> define the boundaries which would set up a debate or discussion between
> "art" and "science" as subjective and objective practices, but rather to
> ask about instances where those boundaries (and again, we have yet to
> really question how effective or meaningful such boundaries are) begin
> to get messy. But I think this has to be more than simply a "third
> option" that is either totally new or a consolation between two polarities.
>

The limit of the binomium art-science lies generally on the misunderstanding created after the famous statement
‘the medium is the message’ (McLuhan), so that the artist who “uses” or “employs”  say, the video, in his work,
immmediately he gets an intermedia or polypoetical artist, although he does ignore all about the new medium.
My idea of the mentioned binomium moves, once more from the concept of “Phrónesis” elaborated by Gadamer, a
dialogic rationality where the two polarities ‘art and science’ have a dialogue from their very different,
separate positions, keeping a constant distinction between the two poles.
If I am allowed, Eugene, to quote another of my favourite philosopher, Kierkegaard, more than one century ago,
(1844) he declared that it was absolutely wrong “to explain everything  according  to the principle of
cause-effect...”.
So, going further, art and science can’t be mixed.
Not yet seen an ‘artistic’ scientist or a ‘scientific’ artist, not because of a fearful conservatorism in front
of the new, simply  I can’t appreciate the artistic pace along the scientific process. Being creative,
obviously, belongs to both, as intuition is not a specific category found only in a selected field.
Let me talk about my personal experience in the area of sound poetry. All the times I’ve been the chance to work
in very powerful, really sofisticated electonic studios ( SJSU, PUC São Paulo or the University of Padova) in
close conncetion with engeneers or sound experts, it was neatly clear about our definte roles, everybody knew
“who was who”  and it could have been really a mess to operate in the opposite way.

Enzo Minarelli

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