Artworks to stimulate the take-up of emerging technology

As sciences and arts increasingly specialised during the twentieth century, so they pulled further apart. Now innovators are looking to reunite them in efforts to better communicate outstanding research results.

In 1959 the British novelist and scientist C.P. Snow coined the phrase the ‘two cultures’ to explore the divide between the endeavours of science and the humanities, lamenting the loss of solutions to the world’s problems. Currently, there are renewed efforts to bridge the gap between the two investigative traditions. The EU-funded FEAT project successfully matched five artists to early-stage scientific projects.

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