ON TOPIC
On the Fringe:
SciArt in New York
By Julia Buntaine & Ashley P. Taylor
Editor-in-Chief & Managing Editor
The logo of this magazine is a Venn diagram
that represents the worlds of art and science as
two intersecting circles. The overlap is where
SciArt resides along with other kinds of crosstalk between artists, scientists, and their practices. SciArt could never be called science, and
is at the end of the day Art. Despite that, its
public affiliation with science is the stronger of
the two: SciArt is more likely to be displayed in
science museums, universities, or conferences
than in galleries and art museums.
“The challenge for SciArt is to have some
resonance outside of that little intersection,”
said artist Jonathan Feldschuh, a painter whose
work often explores themes from physics, in
reference to the Venn diagram. “What I’m interested in doing as an artist is to make art that
resonates in the larger art community, not just
with people who are interested in art and science.”
We decided to investigate how SciArt fits into
the larger art world. Although