Interaction of science with visual arts and technology: new online course to be launched at St Petersburg University
St Petersburg University is launching a new online course on the OpenEdu platform dedicated to the mutual influence of scientific ideas and the achievements of visual arts. The authors of the course are: Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Director of the Institute for Cognitive Studies, Professor of St Petersburg University, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences; and Professor Sergei Stafeev, Doctor of Engineering.
The course will consist of four units, and its concept is based on the comparative description of three types of human intellectual activity: science, art, and technology. It focuses on the mutual influence and convergence of scientific ideas and the achievements of visual arts, evolving optical technologies, and their application in painting, sculpture, architecture, theatre, cinema, and contemporary 3D installations.
For more information and to enrol in the course, please visit the OpenEdu platform.
Students in the online course will learn: what science and scientific knowledge are; the history of optics; the nature of light; how people of ancient times navigated space and time; and what optical features of ancient temple complexes.
The course is complemented by live talks and public lectures. The first talk on science and religion has already been published on St Petersburg University resources. It features St Petersburg University Professor Tatiana Chernigovskaya and Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, Rector of Ss Cyril and Methodius School of Post-Graduate and Doctoral Studies and Head of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for External Church Relations.
On the resources of St Petersburg University there is also a talk-interview on arts with Tatiana Chernigovskaya and Viktoriia Markova, Doctor of Art Studies, Chief Research Associate at the Old Masters Department of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.