Science as an Artistic Objective

“In artistic endeavors, interpreters are ‘imaginative,’ as that word is now popularly understood. Artists allow themselves more leeway for modifying their repertoire of experiential anticipations (that is, the resultant structure of experience that has presented itself to them from their previous history of interpretations). As a result, experiential anticipations in the arts can be valued for their playful innovation, rather than regarded as ideals by which to judge further behavior (as in ethics) or as hypotheses to be tested against further observation (as in the sciences).”
—Arthur Evans, Critique of Patriarchal Reason [15]

Questioning, imagination and playful experimentation guided our scientific research. Unexpected observations were made [16], and scientific and artistic objectives were achieved. Our scientific investigations focused upon simple phenomenological observation, such as the study of fluid dynamics, because the nature of this experience was totally new to us. We used audio tapes, journals, videos, photography, film and administrative records as research documentation tools.

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