Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society.
This edited volume reflects the rapidly developing practices comprising integrative and collaborative work across different knowledge domains (including art and science), the benefit of those processes to the individual, to knowledge production (and its complexity) and ultimately the benefits to society (why it is worth doing). The book will provide an overview of the factors in which the exhibition and performance of scientifically-engaged art inside and outside of traditional museum spaces has instigated cultural and aesthetic transformations and social interactions while presenting a variety of opportunities for educators, scientists, artists and the interested public to critically expand its engagement.
The book is intended for scholars interested in collaborative and/or integrative work who study research, methodology, art history, science, and museum studies.
Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society.
Preface Introduction Prologue: Three Reflections: Building Catalytic
Structures Part
1. The Construction and Deconstruction of Silos
1. Art &
Science: The Forming of Many Cultures
2. Global Challenges Require
Multi-Disciplinary Solutions: The Origin, Intent, and Outcomes of a Major
National Academy of Sciences Study
3. Art, Science and Technology Studies:
Charting Collaborative Practice
4. Why STEAM: Rationale, Implementation, and
Impact in Formal and Informal Settings
5. Exposing Ourselves: Elucidating
Artists' Methods to Better Establish Their Value in Critical Research
6.
Cultivating the Field of Neuroarts
7. Parallel Distributed Collaborations:
Building collaborative capacity for artists and scientists to tackle complex
problems Part
2. Bridging Knowledge Production and Fostering New Perspectives
8. The da Vincis Cube: A New Model for Understanding Innovation at the Edges
of Arts and Science
9. Life As We Tell It: A Health Revolution Through
Narratives & Creative Expressions
10. Interspecies: Art, Science and the
Animal
11. Parsing the Senses to Explore Complex Systems Multimodal
Investigation at the AlloSphere Research Facility
12. Recording Ice: Art and
Scientific Knowledge Production in the Arctic Part
3. Societal and Cultural
Impact of Integrative Approaches
13. Embody, Engage, Enact
14. Artivist
Intervention: A Case Study of The Taiwanese Artivist Vincent Huang
15. The
Returned Gaze: Comparing Native and non-Native Audience Responses to
Indigenous Films
16. Atelier de la Nature: A Living Community Artwork
17.
Artists-in-labs as an Activist Strategy
18. Drawing a New Culture: Bringing
Scientists and Artists Together at Sea
19. The UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek
Field Station Art Science Program: Thought Process and Experience Part
4.
Collaborative Processes in Imagining Future Practices
20. Confronting Crises:
Art-Science as Mirror, Connector, and Portal
21. The Art and Technology
Organizations of the Future: Can experiments forge new organizational
trajectories?
22. Translating Experiential Knowledge and Measuring Impact in
Community Arts and Health Programs
23. Imagining the integrative research
museum: Articulating values and valuing disagreement
24. Well-Being: Cultural
Institution Impact and Purpose
25. Framing the impacts and potential of
integrating contemporary art and science practices and goals through a
community-wide ecosystem lens
J.D. Talasek is Director, Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences.
Barbara Stauffer led temporary exhibitions and community programs at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for over thirty years.
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