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Imprisoned Moon

“Imprisoned Moon” – A Cover Design for a Tibetan Monk’s Poetry Collection. ©Dali Wu, 2025.

Original painting : collage, mixed media on watercolour paper.

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Dali Wu - Designer | Reedsy

Montreal, QC, Canada Designer: Visual artist, illustrator, designer. 11+ yrs exp. in arts. 35 international awards. Boldly blends traditiona

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On Art and Science: Tango of an Eternally Inseparable Duo

Editors: Wuppuluri, Shyam, Wu, Dali (Eds.), afterword by Sir Martin Rees. 

Einstein once remarked "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well". In this volume, some of the world’s leading thinkers come together to expound on the interrelations between sciences and arts. While one can segregate art and place it outside the scientific realm, it is, nevertheless, inextricably linked to our essential cognitive/emotional/perceptual modalities and abilities, and therefore lies alongside and in close contact with the method of science and philosophy. What inspiration can scientists draw from art and how can scientific spirit foster our understanding and creation of aesthetic works? How are art and science grounded in our cognition? What role does perception play in science and art? Are criteria for beauty in art and science the same? How does evolution shape our understanding of art? How do science, art and scientifico-artistic frameworks shape society as a whole and help us address its pressing issues? The epistemological and ontological aspects haunt artists, philosophers and scientists alike. The essays in this volume address these manifold questions while also elucidating the pragmatic role they play in our daily life.

During my postgraduate period, my master dissertation was firstly on “Science and Art”. Later for some reasons, the topic was changed to discuss the relationship between art and knowledge. My starting point was that given art is intuitive, and art does not provide knowledge or solve problems, although artwork can inspire cognitive intention, plus it seems to bring you some truth. So I named it “Paraclopedia (Pseudo encyclopedia)”, trying to point out that all knowledge about art is false. My dissertation got the highest score of the whole year, and naturally, I turned to the Buddhist idea of Madhyamaka on my further research. But the initial concept on the relationship between art and science is sadly abandoned. 

Seven years later, Shyam helped me fulfill this wish, completing this collection of research papers discussing the relationship between art and science. The issues addressed in this volume are deeply discussed and stimulated, and all of them are at the forefront of art and science. If you are interested in this subject, Please pay attention to this book: https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030275761

Thank you!