# Leonard Shlain ATC Lecture

- Institution: University of California, Berkeley
- Department: Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium
- Level: Undergraduate
- Subjects: Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/LeonardShlainAtcLecture)
- Licence: none stated by the source
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

"In this talk, Dr. Shlain will present the compelling thesis of his 1991 monograph. Shlain observes that as visual artists such as Cezanne and Monet moved away from literal representation and realism in the late 19th century, researchers in physics traced a parallel trajectory away from newtonian models of deterministic motion towards far less intuitive models of relativity and statistical quantum physics. Shlain identifies a range of surprising parallels: between Seurat's pointillism and Kirchhoff and Maxwell's specroscopic models of color, between the Braque's Cubist imagery and the multiple simultaneous perspectives in Einstein's Gedanken experiments, between Pollock and Newman's Abstract Expressionism and the non-Euclidean geometry of Lobachevsky, between Duchamp and Cage's investigations of chance and the probabilistic orbital models proposed by Bohr and Heisenberg. Shlain's perspective on art and physics gives him a powerful lens with which to view the progression of innovation in both art and technology.

Shlain will be introduced by Dr. Fritjof Capra, Author of The Tao of Physics and founding director of the Center for Ecoliteracy in Berkeley."

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## Lectures

1. [bampfa unac 14322 1 T1](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ia/LeonardShlainAtcLecture/62dfb11d9f36), 7 min (Video)