| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立交通大學 === 應用藝術所 === 88 === In Renaissance, the solid combination of art and science created a an extraordinary achievement. However, since human knowledge became more and more specialized, the gap between art and science has become larger and larger. Many modern trends and movements stand for that science, humanity and art should be joined together, but up to now, this idea has only been carried out through the way of applying new technology and media on the work of art. Except for this, the concepts of science are seldom being associated with works of art or theories of art.
Based on the researcher’s background and personal interest, the study is aimed to fill the gap between art and science, to draw the attention and arouse the interest of other researchers or creators, and to mingle many creative concepts from these two fields. The aim of this study is not to eliminate the difference between art and science, but to increase the mutual understanding between the researchers and creators in these two fields, and furthermore, to enlarge the room for development and creation of both art and science.
Art and science are different in their basic theories and their appearances. If we intend to study the relationship between them, or even to discuss if they are similar in some of their concepts, then this study must be philosophically logical and be reasonable in its concept integration. In this way, we can discuss their relationship in different dimensions, and moreover, the theory we employ must allow the extension of concepts and be reasonable when concepts extend.
This study is a qualitative research on the relationship between physics science and visual art, and the research method and process of this study are based on the coding steps from the “grounding theory.” This study covers a wide research category, therefore, the researcher collects many relevant references in order to get a better understanding of former studies, so as to find a specific subject for further research. Thus, the first part of this study is the result of open coding.
In the second phase of the study, the researcher analyze and evaluate the result of the open coding. Due to the personal interest and research background, the researcher decided to discuss the common qualities between physics science and visual art in terms of “entropy” as axial coding. In fact, the researcher doesn’t draw any conclusion in this part, just collects some theories about “entropy” to find out common qualities between physics science and visual art in the process of theory development.
After obtaining the main axial for this study─a study on the “order” and “disorder” in physics science and visual art, the researcher employs “information theory” as the bridge for connecting the concepts of physics science and visual art. This is the so-called “selective coding” in research steps. After analyzing the theory, the researcher adopts a work of computer art and a qualitative result of the “Information Rate” research in supporting the points that has been made in this study.
Finally, according to the result of this study, the concepts about the “order” and “disorder” in physics science and visual art can be connected by the “information rate”. And the part of discussion provides three related research topics from different points of view and different dimensions.
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