Description
Book SynopsisThe experimental approach of science applied to artistic research. We don’t know what we don’t know. This makes it difficult to imagine research that will produce truly new knowledge. In the sciences, the experimental approach has proved its worth in generating what subsequently requires understanding. Can the emergent field of artistic research be inspired by recent thinking about the history and workings of science? How can artists engage with experimentation to extend artistic values and deliver future knowledge? In this book fourteen contemporary artists, musicians, and theorists engage with Hans-Jörg Rheinberger’s widely studied theory of experimental systems in an effort to determine how experimentation can productively be put to work in the arts. An interview with Rheinberger himself probes research as a potentially shared space between the otherwise different activities of art and science.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction
Michael Schwab
A Theory of Experimentation in Art? Reading Kubler's History of Art after Rheinberger's Experimental Systems
Stefanie Stallschus
Electrical Images: Snapshots of an Exploration
Hannes Rickli
Material Experiments: “Phenomeno-Technology” in the Art of the New Materialists
Susanne Witzgall
Whatever Remains, However Improbable: British Experimental Music and Experimental Systems
Virginia Anderson
Of Arnold Schoenberg's Klavierstück op. 33a, “a Game of Chess,” and the Emergence of New Epistemic Things
Darla M. Crispin
Research Organs as Experimental Systems: Constructivist Notions of Experimentation in Artistic Research
Peter Peters
A Laboratory View of Art
Gabriele Gramelsberger
Artistic Practices and Epistemic Things
Henk Borgdorff
Artistic Experiments as Research
Elke Bippus
Toward a Practice of Novel Epistemic Artefacts
Stephen A. R. Scrivener
Epistemic Complexity and Experimental Systems in Music Performance
Paulo de Assis
Criticism and Experimental Systems
Paolo Giudici
Epistemic Events
Neal White
Forming and Being Informed
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in conversation with Michael Schwab
Personalia
Index
