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Traditionally, engineering education teaches natural principles and technical procedures in order to yield reliable, predictable results. It is a highly cognitive activity. However, computer based technologies are reducing the need for engineers’ routine work on welldefined tasks and are shifting focus to creating completely new products and services and novel solutions for “unsolvable” challenges. To utilize full potential of their creativity engineers need to learn how to think outside of the box, break rules, r...

The increasing impact of science and technology in our daily lives calls for more science communication within the general public and science art offers an effective means. Science Art is not new, but until about 20 years ago science topics in the general art world were still a rarity. This was treated as a niche form of graphic art. However, especially over the last 10 years there has true surge of interest in the artistic depiction of science subject matter in the digital networks. So, what is Science Art? Well,...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed paradigms of creativity and art, raising questions about the capacity of machines to create works that evoke emotional response and possess originality. This article explores whether AI systems can create ‘real’ art and what this means in terms of philosophy, aesthetics and cultural norms. Examples of AI art such as “Theatre D’opera Spatial” and “Portrait of Edmond de Belamy” are analyzed to assess their emotional and artistic value. The question of originality of AI art is...

Artists and university professors face an increasingly complex environment. There is access to abundance of information and the AI revolution helps everyone to deliver more detailed and structured knowledge. This is an opportunity to try new methods and novel combinations in the artistic and learning processes and use more diverse ideas and methods. We want to highlight the development in recent years in our personal life in Iceland in the use of photography in this context. It all started in the Covid-19 pandemic...