Visualising the patterns of life, evolution and emergence.
Seeking Nature´s Patterns beyond Scientific View - Selected Works
Cell Design Nr. 4
Work from the LBI Collaboration: Materializing cellular emergence from chaos and order: the drawing machine generates structure while the human artist introduces essential chaos. («TechArt», «Publications»)
Mitochondrion - Love is Born
Painting, Oil on Linen, 60x70 cm, 2023
A Pensive Moment in Evolution
Painting, Oil on Linen, 60x70 cm, 2024
This platform
SciArt.at is an international platform by artist R. Friedrich Bliem presenting paintings and projects connecting visual art, science, technology, philosophy and public engagement.
At its core is an artistic exploration of scientific phenomena, patterns and processes —from evolution and the origins of life to consciousness and artificial intelligence.
Upcoming Event: Art, Philosophy and Science
"The Big Picture" is designed as a kick-off event: an interdisciplinary program taking place over one afternoon and the following morning, welcoming participants of all ages. To be held in German.
Weiden, Austria, 19. and 20. September, 2026 https://www.the-big-picture.at/
Science
Nature reveals fundamental patterns through its forms and phenomena. These can be understood as the aesthetics of nature. Science seeks to describe these patterns in rational concepts. The human mind also reproduces them intuitively through artistic expression. Both aim to explore, capture and communicate aspects of this existence, albeit with different capacities of the mind. In this way, science and art complement each other. No more, no less. See further «Publications».
Science Art Concept
Science Art is an oeuvre that places scientific subject matter at the center of artistic work.
It appears in varied art forms and styles: Bio-luminescent installations, immersive visualizations of medical data, and sonifications of cellular or environmental processes translate abstract scientific information into perceptible experience.
These works allow audiences to encounter rhythms, flows, and structures underlying life without requiring technical scientific knowledge.
The work of R. Friedrich Bliem
is one example of this approach.
It translates scientific ideas and complex phenomena into visual and sensory experience.
Instead of illustrating science, the work explores its underlying patterns — evolution, emergence, complexity, cellular life and consciousness — through traditional painting and interdisciplinary projects.
Bliem’s work aims to communicate these patterns through aesthetic experience, evoking a feeling for science, ideally without the need for much explanation. His Science Art seeks to raise curiosity and inspire. Nothing more. Nothing less. See «Selected Works».
Collaborations
In a recent collaborative project, Bliem explored the role of art in the context of AI technologies and human robot collaboration within the LBI-MedNet project TechArt TechArt. In this work he implemented as a case study the concept of "Chaos and Order as Design Elements in Evolutionary Biology and the Visual Arts", which resulted in two exhibitions hosted by LBI and a conference presentation on the subject.
A collaboration with SGEM Vienna has resulted in a forthcoming book titled Feeling Science – A Journey through Evolution, as well as two exhibitions. More information is available via SGEM Vienna.
Foto above is of a painting performance with robot printer at the 2025 exhibition X-Frames in Vienna.
An ongoing project: A Journey through Evolution.
A painted story. The work emerges as a story told from a single, organized cell to contemplating minds, from molecular order to artificial intelligence, the story told in paintings traces an unfolding of complexity. The evolution of life has been one of design and emergence, stability and change, instruction and improvisation.
