For most students graduating high school the interior tussle to choose between the arts and the sciences is often intense.
However, for Jamila Adeli, a Berlin-based art historian and freelance curator, the two disciplines are "entangled by commonality" and eventually "both ask the same questions".
"Arts and Science have met frequently and successfully over the centuries," Adeli said in her keynote address at an exhibition titled "Art Meets Science" here late last evening.
"While the former is appreciated for aesthetics the latter is appreciated for creating exact knowledge," she said.
To buttress her point of science benefiting from the artistic visualisation process, Adeli played a short clip by design artist Dennis Hlynsky, showing the flight path of birds over a time, which according to her may aid in the scientific quest of solving the puzzle of birds flocking.
She said that the emerging discipline of artistic research involves "comprehending reality with, through and in images".
She made a reference to Leonardo da Vinci, who is considered to be an artist and engineer in equal measure.
German Ambassador Michael Steiner inaugurated a photo exhibition, themed the "The Theatre of Real Life".
The photographs, displaying a wide range of perspectives of everyday life in India have been captured by Indian photographers during a photography master class by German artistic photographer Wolfgang Zurborn conducted during the "Excellence on Tour!" road shows in Ahmedabad and Kolkata in 2013 and 2014.
Zurborn has assembled the photos into an inspiring exhibition.
Rishi Singhal, coordinator, Photography Design at the National Institute of Design, who also mentored the young photographers, said that efforts were made "not to exoticise India" as most photographers end up doing.
The exhibition titled 'DWIH Horizon: Art Meets Science' is organised by the German House for Research and Innovation - DWIH New Delhi) and is set to continue at the IGNCA here till November 1.
