Their inspirations come from a variety of places including technological innovation, dialogue with university colleagues, and international collaborations. Visual art does not translate precisely into words. It creates room for layers of meaning, ambiguity, and ambivalence. It is immediately knowable at some level, but as in other fields, knowledge of the work that has gone before or wide acquaintance with other issues allows an observer to understand the art more fully. Artists often have explicit goals of making connections to other cultural issues and intellectual currents.
Art is a more accepting way of learning.
Yet after mathematics there is nothing more abstract, he points out. We strive to give our students a sense of what was, and what is, but we want them to be preoccupied with what can and ought to be. This issue of Research News was designed by students from the UM School of Art's graphic design workshop. Much of the desing work was lost in the translation from print to electronic version.