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work_2xy4tpegbbc6xmxvx42ixfpqja	Ellen K. Levy	Repetition and the Scientific Model in Art	1996	9	.pdf	application/pdf	3195	229	52	This essay explores repetition in the work of artists who use scientific models as a point of The biological and physical sciences provide these artists with examples of processes regularly occurring in nature, and the artists use science as a means of exploring relationships between art and the world. Such artists as Alfred Jensen and Robert Smithson capitalize on their ability to evoke nature's processes through repetitive patterns. Repetitive protein folding subsequently generates structures with specific functional properties. genetic process provides a linear order in which sequences determine function. Because repetition can evoke biological processes, the scientific context of the artists I discuss is reinforced. There is great advantage for artists to contextualize their work in this manner: the ability to couple abstract processes available in selfreflexive art with an external referent provided by the scientific model. the grid as a source of repetitive units; Smithson, the duplication formed by mirrors; and 	./cache/work_2xy4tpegbbc6xmxvx42ixfpqja.pdf	./txt/work_2xy4tpegbbc6xmxvx42ixfpqja.txt