TY  - Type of reference 
TI  - What Can Art do for Science? 
AU  - Jean-Marc Lévy-Leblond 
AB  - This article reproduces almost verbatim the closing plenary lecture given by the author at the end of the one-day seminar De la mise en culture de la science à la recherche-création, held at ENSAD (Paris) on May 23, 2023. The author’s thesis is that art can contribute to what he calls mise en culture de la science (put science into culture), and even to its REmise en culture (bring science back into culture), since if we refer to the past, science and culture, particularly during the Renaissance, are very difficult to distinguish. There are still distinct scientific institutions at the time, and the treatises of major artists such as Dürer and Alberti, particularly in geometry, have practically nothing to envy from the mathematical treatises of the same period. The following centuries, from the 17th to the 20th, will see the establishment of a progressive separation between strictly scientific and artistic activities, in a schism that will materialize on the institutional level. Using examples chosen from contemporary visual arts production, the author shows how art can contribute to this remise en culture by broadening the scope of meaning of scientific discoveries, by proposing non-discursive metaphors and by opening up the possibility of developing a "concrete epistemology." It can also induce, and even catalyze, a critical perspective that is particularly necessary today. 
DO  - 10.21494/ISTE.OP.2025.6781 
JF  - Art and Science 
KW  - contemporary art, abstraction, mathematical symbolism, scientific fiction, false colors, ethics, art contemporain, abstraction, symbolisme mathématique, fiction scientifique, fausses couleurs, éthique,  
L1  - https://www.openscience.fr/IMG/pdf/iste_artsci25v9nspe_16.pdf 
LA  - en 
PB  - ISTE OpenScience 
DA  - 2025/10/24 
SN  - 2515-8767 
TT  - Que peut l’art pour la science ? 
UR  - https://www.openscience.fr/What-Can-Art-do-for-Science 
IS  - Special issue 
VL  - 9 
ER  -