The MUSES
“The polyaesthetic muses have an advantage over the Greek muses in that every possible aesthetic expression is seen under the influence of these muses as opposed to the limited Greek view. Furthermore one can tell exactly where the influence of one muse leaves and the next muse starts.” Kaz Maslanka
PolyAesthetics Mapping: The Muses (PAMM,) under the leadership of Kaz Maslanka, has created a qualitative and quantitative model that defines multiple aesthetic categories and helps to visualize those aesthetic differences within a mapping system. An added benefit is that this mapping system separates the aesthetics of science from the aesthetics of art to see the power of combining the two. The audience is invited to make judgments about items that range from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to Bohl’s model of the atom, They make decisions about where the item might reside on each of the three axes that define the cube. The end points of these axes represent the extremes of each aesthetic category. Pamm member Anand Bora has designed an app to help visualize the plotting of that item in the 3-d cube. Each corner of the cube signifies the confluence of three of the 6 end points of those three axes. Each of the 8 corners of the cube as well as the very center of the cube is depicts a location of Muse. Maslanka has described those muses and Vicki Leon has been guided by them to create items to further clarify their roles in this polyaesthetic treatise. The team encourages dialogue about the definition of aesthetics, art and the role of creativity in science.
PolyAesthetics Mapping: The Muses (PAMM,) under the leadership of Kaz Maslanka, has created a qualitative and quantitative model that defines multiple aesthetic categories and helps to visualize those aesthetic differences within a mapping system. An added benefit is that this mapping system separates the aesthetics of science from the aesthetics of art to see the power of combining the two. The audience is invited to make judgments about items that range from Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel to Bohl’s model of the atom, They make decisions about where the item might reside on each of the three axes that define the cube. The end points of these axes represent the extremes of each aesthetic category. Pamm member Anand Bora has designed an app to help visualize the plotting of that item in the 3-d cube. Each corner of the cube signifies the confluence of three of the 6 end points of those three axes. Each of the 8 corners of the cube as well as the very center of the cube is depicts a location of Muse. Maslanka has described those muses and Vicki Leon has been guided by them to create items to further clarify their roles in this polyaesthetic treatise. The team encourages dialogue about the definition of aesthetics, art and the role of creativity in science.
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