Iconography of Science Representations as Visual Concepts in the Digital Era. First Outline

Abstract

As far as apparently distant, the discoveries of scientific investigation and the inventions of new modalities of representation in arts encourage each other to develop knowledge to understand the reality around us. The iconic component becomes particularly important in this type of path, as it can even shape the thought that generated it. The technologies and tools developed in the history of science, and even more the computing power of digital technology, allow us to explore scales of time and space profoundly remote from our existential coordinates. An interesting interweaving is actually occurring. “Big Science” is verifying an unexpected and significant correlation of interests concerning some fundamental arguments, in an unexpected continuum of open questions and possible cross-solutions, from the Zeptospace to the new cosmology. Digital platforms now make it totally interagibile the relationship between pure alphanumeric data and their presentation through qualitative forms of spatiotemporal algorithms. This possible visual quality of the quantitative values reasonably prelude to a series of next-generation -or mutation—of scientific iconography. The Statistical disciplines of probabilities are reasonably matching with the arts of imagination, in a process of deep convergence between the power of techno-sciences on the human mind to suggest new perceptions for the creativity and the imagination in arts.