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• [1] Greg Nanamura from NYC June 29, 2009 - 12:49PM

  Kepes did this also, here is his biography:

  Gyorgy Kepes was born in Selyp, Hungary. After graduating from the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest, he joined the Germany studio of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, a Hungarian artist who experimented with many materials.

  In 1937, while living in London, Mr. Kepes received an offer from Moholy-Nagy to teach at the Chicago Institute of Design Bauhaus. He remained at the Bauhaus for eight years.

  Kepes then joined the staff at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1945; he was a professor of visual design there from 1946 until retiring in 1974. At MIT Mr. Kepes discovered that "scientists have a clearer and richer horizon than most artists have. So I started a series of seminars to find meeting areas for scientists and artists in understanding the world," he recalled. He founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies in 1964 and was its head until 1974. CAVS was founded on the idea of breaking down the barriers between art and technology. Kepes and his MIT group were selected to represent the U.S. at the Sao Paulo Biennale in 1969.

  Some of the commissions of Gyorgy Kepes are the programmed light mural in KLM's 5th Ave. office in New York City, lighting sculptures for Roehm and Haas' Philadelphia headquarters and a Light Corridor for the Milan Triennale.

  Other important exhibition designs by Kepes include "The Art of the UN" at the Chicago Art Institute, "Light as a Creative Medium" at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, and “Explorations" at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. The latter two shows were accompanied by catalogs.

  Kepes was the author of "Language of Vision" and "The New Landscape," and was widely known for his abstract paintings, kinetic sculpture, light installations and photography. His work was shown in one-man exhibits around the world.

  
  
• [2] Ken from Modesto, Ca June 29, 2009 - 12:56PM

  Both science and art are concerned with Time, Space and Motion. One used the empirical to define the real physical world and one uses symbols and metaphor to define an inner world of emotions and ideas.