Episode 13: Aoife Van Linden Tol - Explosions of art in science, and science in art

Show Notes: Christine Atha (10:30) “Dropping bombs on the landscape” (13:30)  Land art (14:30)  Michael Heizer “Displaced Replaced Mass” (16:10)  Is this art? (19:00)  Take out the human completely, take out what it means to anybody and try to imagine this thing existing on its own (21:00)  Imagine what it means to be the object, to be the force (21:20)  How chaos and order is an analogy for science and art (23:30)  Why the human condition responds to explosives in amazing way (24:30)  Explosions in nature - coronal mass ejections (26:20)  European Space Agency Artist in Residency (27:00)  Bernard Foing (29:35)  Ars Electronica (30:20)  Antidisciplinary (31:15)  Museum as a space for anything that doesn’t fit anywhere else (33:50)  Mondrian painting (32:05)  Picture of sun absorption/emission line spectrum (32:40)  How to become interdisciplinary? (34:30)  Step into the unknown (35:40)  Culture and art in the space age (36:45)  International Astronautical Congress (37:20)  Who is space for? (37:40)  Voyage 2 Golden Record (39:00)  Key to the Cosmos (39:40)  What are you begging people to wonder? (41:30) Miha TürsicFrank Wright The Overview Effect (43:20)  Journey of an electron in space and STARSTORM (47:50)  John McPhee and his power with creative nonfictionLightning round (53:20):  Book: Meetings with Remarkable TreesPassion: Shaolin Kung Fu Aoife online:   WebsiteBrilliant work, including pictures of Star StormTwitter'Five-Cut Fridays’ series   Aoife’s List