Joan Miró and Ferrà (1893-1983) son of a goldsmith and jeweler. His parents saw him as a future serious businessman. Miró even trained in this field, studying art. Initially, Miró created in various fashionable styles, incl. fauvists and cubists. In 1920, he traveled to Paris several times, and a year later he settled there permanently. He met Pablo Picasso, Vasily Kandinsky, and many other famous artists. In 1924 he joined André Breton's surrealists, but - although he created under their influence - he remained on the margins of this trend, retaining the position of an outsider. Influenced by surreal poets and writers,...

The term "molecular and physical gastronomy" was coined in 1988 by Hungarian physicist Nicholas Kurti and French physical chemist Hervé This. In 1992, it became the title for a set of workshops held in Erice, Italy (originally titled "Science and Gastronomy")[ that brought together scientists and professional cooks for discussions about the science behind traditional cooking preparations. Eventually, the shortened term "molecular gastronomy" became the name of the approach, based on exploring the science behind traditional cooking methods. The objectives of molecular gastronomy, as defined by Hervé This, are seeking the mechanisms of culinary transformations and processes (from a chemical and physical point of view) in...

With the Museum of Modern Art in New York closed during the current COVID-19 pandemic, Neri Oxman, the multidisciplinary designer, inventor, and founder and director of the Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab, has launched today an online version of her recent MoMA retrospective, Neri Oxman: Material Ecology. The exhibition, initially scheduled to run from Feb. 22–May 25, was on view to the public for just four weeks before MoMA temporarily closed, inspiring Oxman to develop a digital experience in which visitors can virtually experience her works on display. Aguahoja I (2018). The Aguahoja Artifacts Display is a catalog of material experiments spanning...

Interdisciplinary activities are necessary and practical, multi-sensory experience and cognition - through sight, touch, hearing, smell, taste, the sense of temperature and balance as well as the kinesthetic sense - of coexistence and co-creation within traditional visual media of art. Social divisions are most visible in food choices. For me - a person born in another country, the divisions in Great Britain are particularly visible. The starting point of my work will be an attempt to break social divisions in this area. Art can be the first impulse to stimulate the viewer's aesthetics and transformations. Art can become a stimulus for an...

Interdisciplinary Artist - An Attempt at a Definition Let us assume that interdisciplinary artists should not be able to single out one main field of research and label others as secondary and that their work does indeed fall within the realm of ambivalence. Commitment, immersion, and practice mean they are not painters who take photos from time to time or writers who paint for inspiration - they are those whose art shows no respect for the dominant discipline or genre. Their art derives from media that we are able to recognize as equivalents. However, if we remember that interdisciplinarity embodies the...