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Book SynopsisThis book verifies the need for the arts and the sciences to work together in order to develop more creative and conceptual approaches to innovation and presentation. By blending ethnographical case studies, scientific viewpoints and critical essays, the focus of this research inquiry is the lab context. For scientists, the lab context is one of the most important educational experiences. For contemporary artists, laboratories are inspiring spaces to investigate, share know-how transfer and search for new collaboration potentials. The nine labs represented in this book are from the natural, computing and engineering sciences. An enclosed comprehensive DVD documents the results, the problems and serves as a guideline for the future of true Art/Sci experiments.
Table of ContentsFrontmatter -- Contents -- Essays -- Foreword -- Introduction: Processes of Inquiry -- Artists in Industry and the Academy: Collaborative Research, Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and the Interpretation of Hybrid Forms -- Welcoming Uncertainty: The Strong Case for Coupling Art to Science and Technology -- Suggested Discourses for more Art_Sci Collaborations -- Perception-Translation-Transformation -- Free Access or Entry Denied? Searching for Common Ground in the ‘artists-in-labs’ Project -- Science in Trouble? Art brings Hope -- Case Studies -- Case Studies of the project: artists-in-labs 2003-05 -- Institute for Geobotanics, ETH Zürich -- BATS, Centre for Biosafety/Sustainability, Basel -- ZMB, Centre for Microscopy, Basel -- PSI, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen -- Planetarium, Museum of Transportation, Lucerne -- GlobIS, ETH Zürich -- Artificial Intelligence Lab, Uni Zürich -- CSEM, Alpnach -- CoLab, ETH Zürich -- Life Sciences -- Thomas Isler -- N.S. Harsha -- Isabel Rohner -- Shirley Soh -- Physics -- Nigel Helyer -- Dominik Bastianello -- Andrew Quinn -- Clea T. Waite -- Computing/Engineering -- Tiffany Holmes -- Axel Vogelsang -- Margarete Jahrmann / Max Moswitzer -- Adrianne Wortzel -- Margaret Tan -- Biographies -- Biographies from the contributing artists and writers -- DVD and Analyses -- Documentary Film As Research Analyses -- 13 documentaries about the artists-in-lab projects
