Fluids in motion: Contemporary artScience- inspiration and realization

Abstract

I examine contemporary work in fluids in motion to demonstrate strong connections between art, science and technology. In one burgeoning domain, falling liquid drops impacting solid substrates or pools it is valuable to compare how artists and scientists describe their goals and their use of high speed digital photography to capture and measure events. I also examine the use of devices beyond paint brushes to create pictures and views, including installations and projections from computer simulations. In particular, Ned Kahn whose installations in the public domain show various fluids in motion - water, sand, fog, fire as turbulent boundary layers, vortex rings, whirlpools, waterfalls, etc. Finally, I examine aspects of the role of digital technology and its utilization by artists, museums and galleries for innovative displays.