Art and Biology in practice: An essay with Notations

				Artist:Ted Purves






		
      (Above)Art and Biology in Practice: An Essay with Notations,
      installation of artists' books and framed texts, 1998.
In presenting selected works by three visual artists (J.H. Kocman, Herman de Vries and Paul-Armand Gette) who were formally trained in the biological sciences, along with my framed commentaries, my aim was to show that the bridging of distinct disciplines contributes new methodologies---rather than new subjects---to the practice of art. The notion that the combination of art and science produces a branch of art that comments on the ideas of science is replaced by the idea that this combination generates a practicing of art with a science-based mindset.

Ted Purves, O,O Editions, 5923 Colby Apt. B, Oakland, CA 94618, U.S.A. 

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