How does an artwork work?
Explore the material, technical and perceptual dimensions of art: the processes, conditions and phenomena that help an artwork take shape and meet the world.
Where Art Becomes Knowledge and Knowledge Becomes Art.
A connected way of seeing.
Each entry can be explored on its own and understood through its relationships with the other dimensions of culture.
Materials
Pigment, stone, paper, metal, textiles, found objects and emerging media.
Explore connection ↗Techniques
Methods, gestures, tools and processes through which artists transform materials.
Explore connection ↗Phenomena
Light, colour, movement, space, time, environment and perception.
Explore connection ↗Convergence is the intersection of Art, Science in Art and Knowledge in Art — not a separate fourth pillar.
Follow the relationship.
Move between artistic form, process and meaning to discover new connections.
Art
Artists, artworks, forms, media and practices.
Enter Art ↗Science in Art
Materials, techniques, space, light, perception and transformation.
Explore processes ↗Knowledge in Art
Memory, history, philosophy, symbolism and human experience.
Explore knowledge ↗Every point can become a sphere.
Every sphere can reveal new worlds.
NOVASCENZA connects art, practice-related knowledge and human meaning to open new ways of seeing.
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