Integrative Contemporary Art and Science Practices Building Catalytic Structures

Preface

Ellen Levy

Introduction

J.D. Talasek and Barbara Stauffer

Prologue: Three Reflections: Building Catalytic Structures
Mel Chin

Part 1. The Construction and Deconstruction of Silos

1.     Art & Science: The Forming of Many Cultures

William L. Fox

2.     Global Challenges Require Multi-Disciplinary Solutions: The Origin, Intent, and Outcomes of a Major National Academy of Sciences Study

Tom Rudin

3.     Art, Science and Technology Studies: Charting Collaborative Practice

Hannah Star Rogers

4.     Why STEAM: Rationale, Implementation, and Impact in Formal and Informal Settings

Lucinda Presley

5.      Exposing Ourselves: Elucidating Artists' Methods to Better Establish Their Value in Critical Research

Lee Boot

6.      Cultivating the Field of Neuroarts

Susan Magsamen and Ruth J. Katz

7.      Parallel Distributed Collaborations: Building collaborative capacity for artists and scientists to tackle complex problems

Edgar Cardenas

Part 2. Bridging Knowledge Production and Fostering New Perspectives

8.  The da Vinci’s Cube: A New Model for Understanding Innovation at the Edges of Arts and Science

R. Benjamin Knapp et al. 

9.  Life As We Tell It: A Health Revolution Through Narratives & Creative Expressions

David O. Fakunle et al.

10.  Interspecies: Art, Science and the Animal

Nicole Triscott

11.   Parsing the Senses to Explore Complex Systems – Multimodal Investigation at the AlloSphere Research Facility

JoAnn Kuchera-Morin

12.   Recording Ice: Art and Scientific Knowledge Production in the Arctic

Cy Keener and Justin Holzman

Part 3. Societal and Cultural Impact of Integrative Approaches

13.  Embody, Engage, Enact

Eve Mosher

14. Artivist Intervention: A Case Study of The Taiwanese Artivist Vincent Huang

An-Yi Pan

15. The Returned Gaze: Comparing Native and non-Native Audience Responses to Indigenous Films
Nancy Marie Mithlo and Aleksandra Sherman

16.  Atelier de la Nature: A Living Community Artwork

Brandon Ballengée and Aurore Ballengée

17. Artists-in-labs as an Activist Strategy

Jill Scott

18.  Drawing a New Culture:  Bringing Scientists and Artists Together at Sea

Carlie Wiener and Jenny Woodman

19.  The UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station Art Science Program:  Thought Process and Experience

Faerthen felt and Jeff Brown

Part 4. Collaborative Processes in Imagining Future Practices

20. Confronting Crises: Art-Science as Mirror, Connector, and Portal

Nic Bennett and Anthony Dudo

21. The Art and Technology Organizations of the Future: Can experiments forge new organizational trajectories?

Aslak Helm

22. Translating Experiential Knowledge and Measuring Impact in Community Arts and Health Programs

Kelly Feltault and Hannah Jacobson Blumenfeld

23. Imagining the integrative research museum: Articulating values and valuing disagreement

Louise Whiteley

24. Well-Being: Cultural Institution Impact and Purpose

John H. Falk

25. Framing the impacts and potential of integrating contemporary art and science practices and goals through a community-wide ecosystem lens

Lynn D. Dierking

Biography

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.