Movement and Time in Art

This working group will be the third in the series of NSF-funded meetings aiming to build bridges between the art and science communities, and to foster a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas. The previous two previous meetings were: Perceiving Art: Physics and Research Challenges (Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, 15-18 October, 2023), and Size, Scale, and Scaling in Art (Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK, 2-5 April, 2024). The proposed working group will address an enduring challenge – that of representing motion and the passage of time in a static medium. As the inverse topic, we also propose to explore art wherein motion or the passage of time are integral to the work and explicit rather than implied or simulated – in mobiles, mechanically driven sculptures, artworks shaped by natural forces such as large-scale earthworks, and pieces designed to evolve in time.