Failing forward
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  alternate name: Art and science
about: DefinedTerm
  alternate name: Photography, Artistic
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310216169
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/311176966
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126565
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126848
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128415
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131724
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320133256
abstract: "Fifty years ago, in an era popularly known as the Space Age, optimism concerning scientific progress seemed endless. The desire to put the first people on the Moon spurred advances in technology. However, while the techniques from the space industry found a way into our daily lives, science grew increasingly apart from the everyday world. Scientific interpretations are complicated for non-experts to grasp, resulting in an exchange based on trust. This relationship has always been fragile, and in recent years scientific facts are more and more regarded as 'an opinion'. The truth is that science actually is a temporary and uncertain activity, with ambiguity, curiosity and unpredictability as fundamental elements of its process. Could we see science as a metaphor for life itself? Just as surprising and unsure? A process of fall and rise? In Failing Forward Marjolein Blom (NL) explores what connects art and science. Her own photographic work of minor and major mysteries from the everyday world, is interwoven with images from the NASA archive, depicting scientists working on models for space travel. A kaleidoscopic work of oddities that focuses upon the notion of the attempt. This book revolves around truth-finding, bewilderment and human control. It navigates the two parallel worlds of our scientific and daily reality. While shifting between the enigmatic and the specific, between the clear and the ambiguous, it depicts the delusion of people ever being in control in this world"--Provided by publisher.
abstract: "This project touches on the core of what connects art, science, life: that all are uncertain exercises with uncertain results. Marjolein Blom’s own photographic work of minor and major mysteries from the everyday world is interwoven with images from the NASA archive, depicting scientists working on models for space travel. Failing Forward revolves around truth-finding, wonder and human control. While navigating the two parallel worlds of our scientific and daily reality, it shifts between the enigmatic and the specific, between the clear and the ambiguous, and makes tangible that the thought that we humans will ever be in control in this world, in the end, is a delusion"--From website photographer.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/31054512
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/3108438
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/311176966
creator: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310216169
editor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310216169
editor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310216170
language: dut
language: eng
name: Marjolein Blom: failing forward
subject of: Statement
  additional type: lang
  text: Essay and introduction in both Dutch and English.
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301321410

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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
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