A lot of the artwork I make is directly informed and inspired by science, and this is the week for art about science or #SciArt on twitter. Local
Scientific American blogger Glendon Mellow (aka
@FlyingTrilobite), part of the trio behind the
Symbiartic blog (
@Symbiartic) about the intersection of art and science, declared a #SciArt tweetstorm. He suggested that those of us who care about scientific illustration and art inspired by science should:
- tweet at least 3 artworks a day (March 1 through 7) tagged #SciArt
- retweet at least 5 #SciArt tweets daily
- or more...
The resulting storm is in fact raging. #SciArt is trending on twitter and has been for days. In fact,
Symbiartic has posted some statistics.
Marc Smith of
Connected Action produced this figure showing how the 4000 odd tweets and twitter accounts posting #SciArt are interconnected. As you can imagine, I'm all over this, and am in fact the 5th vertice of 2,227 users, ranked by centrality within the first 24 hours. Read more and see the figure in full detail
here or by clicking on it.
You can follow some of the other blogs write-ups of the tweetstorm via
Symbiartic and find
Nature's post here.
But what you really should do is simply go
check the #SciArt hashtag right now! There are some truly wonderful things being shared from that fertile intersection of art and science. There is everything from scientific visualizations, to art quilts inspired by neurology, to microscopic photographs, to science comics, to fine art on scientific themes, to a cupcake periodic table. Do not miss out. It's inspiring!
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