1st Edition
Practicing Art/Science Experiments in an Emerging Field
Introduction: Experimenting with ‘Art/Science’?
Guelfo Carbone, Priska Gisler, Philippe Sormani
Part I: Positions
Chapter 1
Engaging Performative Contradiction: Introducing the rhetorics of practice and method to artist researchers
Mick Wilson
Chapter 2
Contemporary Art as a New Paradigm? An Artistic Revolution in Light of the History of Science
Nathalie Heinich
Chapter 3
Writing practices as experimental arenas at universities of the arts
Priska Gisler
Part II: Practices
Chapter 4
Material Play and Artistic Renderings: The Production of Essentially Useless Nanotechnology
Michael Lynch
Chapter 5
Probing the art/science binary: Notes on the experimental achievement of shared perception
Dirk vom Lehn
Chapter 6
From Heterogeneity to Hybridity? Working and Living in Arts-based Research
Bernhard Böhm
Chapter 7
Artworks in and as Practices: The Relevance of Particulars
Yaël Kreplak
Chapter 8
On the discrepancy between objects and things: An ecological approach
Fernando Domínguez Rubio
Part III: Implications
Chapter 9
Re-Programmed Art: Overcoming Obsolescence and Opening up Programmed and Kinetic Artworks
Serena Cangiano, Davide Fornari, Azalea Seratoni
Chapter 10
Back to the Future. Bogomir Ecker’s Tropfsteinmaschine as a thought experiment in stone
Johanne Mohs
Chapter 11
Epistemics and Aesthetics of Experimentation: Towards a Hybrid Heuristics?
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Biography
Philippe Sormani is Board member of the Science and Technology Studies Lab at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; and affiliated researcher at the Institut Marcel Mauss, EHESS, in Paris, France
Guelfo Carbone holds a PhD in Philosophy and History of Philosophy (Sapienza University of Rome), and is a member of the Editorial Board of the philosophical Journal "Pólemos. Materiali di filosofia e critica sociale".
Priska Gisler is head of the research cluster Intermediality at University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland, and board member of the Swiss Artistic Research Network (SARN).
