ABSTRACT
Creativity is not exclusive to any domain or discipline. We all regularly engage in activities that require us to be creative, seeking new ideas and ways of thinking, making new objects, events or artefacts. Historically the relationship between the arts and the sciences has been a stormy one, sometimes close and sometimes distinctly separated, but the last century has seen increasing levels of formal intersection between art and science (and also new technology) as discrete yet complementary disciplines. Ascott (1999: 2) argues that: ‘art, technology and science are converging in important ways to produce new strategies, new theories and new forms of creativity, increasingly relying for their advance on a kind of transdisciplinary consultation and collaboration’. Yet others have countered this argument, proposing that such collaboration relies on an underlying principle of commonality that can be difficult to achieve:
The idea that science and art can somehow meet on common ground – that scientists can speak the same language as artists and vice versa – often entails compromise and more often than not it is the art that gets compromised.
