ARTISTS-IN-LABS: Networking in the Margins

1. Front Matter

   Pages 1-6

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2. Introduction and Related Essays

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Introduction: Networking is Both an Art and a Science!

      • Jill Scott

      Pages 8-11

   3. Formative Encounters: Laboratory Life and Artistic Practice

      • Andrea Glauser

      Pages 12-22

   4. On the Nature of Interactions

      • Lloyd Anderson

      Pages 23-33

   5. Bacteria, Robots and Networks

      • Dominik Landwehr

      Pages 34-42

   6. Artists-Who-Care! Shared Perspectives on Social and Ethical Responsibility

      • Jill Scott

      Pages 43-59

   7. Art at the End of Tunnel Vision: A Syncretic Surmise

      • Roy Ascott

      Pages 60-67

   8. Art and Science Research Teams? Some Arguments in Favour of a Culture of Dissent

      • Nina Zschocke

      Pages 68-81

3. Case Studies: Artists-in-Labs 2007–2009

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 83-83

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   2. Think Art — Act Science: Meeting on an Equal Level

      • Irène Hediger

      Pages 84-90

   3. National Public Suport of Trans-Disciplinary Projects

      • Aurelia Müller

      Pages 91-94

4. Science Laboratories

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95

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   2. Life Sciences

      1. Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ) ETH Zurich

         Pages 96-97

      2. Center for Integrative Genomics (CIG) University of Lausanne

         Pages 98-99

      3. WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research

         Pages 100-101

      4. EAWAG: The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology

         Pages 102-104

   3. Cognition & Physics

      1. The Brain Mind Institute (BMI) | EPFL

         Pages 105-107

      2. The Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCI Lab) Institute of Psychology | University of Basel

         Pages 108-109

      3. The Physics Department at the University of Geneva | CERN

         Pages 110-112

Networking in the Margins is about sharing information in the margins where immersive learning can expand the exact sciences and demand a more robust level of dialogue from the humanities and the arts. At base of these margins, sits an attitude, which values mixed levels of fantasy, reality and logic and accepts unexpected results. Therefore, this new edition will feature how the AIL artists from the disciplines of sculpture, installation, performance and sound and AIL partner scientists from the disciplines of physics, computer technologies, environmental ecology and cognitive analysis have complimented each others research from 2006 to 2009. While scientists have certainly learnt about art, artists have become more involved in ethical and social debates about scientific discovery in relation to society. In this book the potentials of networking in these margins are reflected upon by 9 prominent authors, 12 artists and 12 leading scientific researchers from various Laboratories.

• art and science
• interdisciplinary studies
• lab context
• media design
• sociology

• Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Switzerland, Switzerland

  Jill Scott

Jill Scott was born in 1952, in Melbourne, Australia and has been working and living in Switzerland since 2003. Currently she is Professor for Research in the Institute Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Zürich and Co-Director of the Artists-in-Labs Program (a collaboration with the Ministry for Culture, Switzerland) which places artists from all disciplines into physics, computer, engineering and life science labs to learn about scientific research and make creative interpretations. She is also Vice Director of the Z-Node PHD program on art and science at the University of Plymouth, UK-a program with 16 international research candidates. Her recent publications include: Artists-in-labs Processes of Inquiry: 2006 Springer/Vienna/New York, and Coded Characters Hatje Cantz 2002, Ed. Marille Hahne. Her education includes: PhD, University of Wales (UK) MA USF, San Francisco, as well as a Degree in Education (Uni Melbourne) and a Degree in Art and Design (Victoria College of the Arts). Since 1975, she has exhibited many video artworks, conceptual performances and interactive environments in USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. Her most recent works involve the construction of interactive media and electronic sculptures based on studies she has conducted in neuroscience- particularly the somatic sensory system artificial skin (e-skin) 2003-2007 and on neuro-rentinal behaviour in relation to human eye disease (The Electric Retina-2008) and on dermatome and skin behaviour in relation to the "skin" of the landscape and UV radiation (Dermaland- 2009).

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