Tomislav Terzin: Aesthetics of Nature
Visual
Expression in Art and Biology
Der Gastvortrag findet im Rahmen von GAL und Aisthesis statt.
Tomislav Terzin, PhD.
Associate Professor of Biology
University
of Alberta, Augustana Faculty Augustana faculty is a living laboratory of teaching innovation at the University of Alberta.
In that spirit, associate professor of visual arts, Julian Forrest and I developed an interdisciplinary course exploring convergent
aspects of visual arts and biology. Through three rounds of offering AUIDS 276 which later was renamed into AUART 298, we
came to the conclusion that we just stepped ankle-deep into the ocean of underexplored relations which do exist between these
distant disciplines. In my presentation, I will focus on the role of colours and patterns in the living systems. However,
I am going to shift the point of view from biology to the convergent zone between biology and visual arts, asking the ultimate
question: Is there art in nature?
