Episode 13: Aoife Van Linden Tol - Explosions of art in science, and science in art

Show Notes: 

• Christine Atha (10:30) 
• “Dropping bombs on the landscape” (13:30)  
• Land art (14:30)  
• Michael Heizer “Displaced Replaced Mass” (16:10)  
• Is this art? (19:00)  
• Take out the human completely, take out what it means to anybody and try to imagine this thing existing on its own (21:00)  
• Imagine what it means to be the object, to be the force (21:20)  
• How chaos and order is an analogy for science and art (23:30)  
• Why the human condition responds to explosives in amazing way (24:30)  
• Explosions in nature - coronal mass ejections (26:20)  
• European Space Agency Artist in Residency (27:00)  
• Bernard Foing (29:35)  
• Ars Electronica (30:20)  
• Antidisciplinary (31:15)  
  • Museum as a space for anything that doesn’t fit anywhere else (33:50)  
• Mondrian painting (32:05)  
  • Picture of sun absorption/emission line spectrum (32:40)  
• How to become interdisciplinary? (34:30)  
• Step into the unknown (35:40)  
• Culture and art in the space age (36:45)  
• International Astronautical Congress (37:20)  
• Who is space for? (37:40)  
• Voyage 2 Golden Record (39:00)  
• Key to the Cosmos (39:40)  
• What are you begging people to wonder? (41:30)
  •  Miha Türsic
• Frank Wright The Overview Effect (43:20)  
• Journey of an electron in space and STARSTORM (47:50)  
• John McPhee and his power with creative nonfiction
• Lightning round (53:20):  
  • Book: Meetings with Remarkable Trees
  • Passion: Shaolin Kung Fu 
• Aoife online:   
  • Website
  • Brilliant work, including pictures of Star Storm
  • Twitter
• 'Five-Cut Fridays’ series   
  • Aoife’s List