Overview
- Labs context is one of the most important learning environments for the interpretation of science
- Follow up volume to AIL: Processes of Inquiry
- Encouragement for interdisciplinary approaches
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Table of contents (33 chapters)
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Introduction and Related Essays
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Case Studies: Artists-in-Labs 2007–2009
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Science Laboratories
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About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: ARTISTS-IN-LABS: Networking in the Margins
Editors: Jill Scott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-0321-0
Publisher: Springer Vienna
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag / Wien 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: 212
Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations, 107 illustrations in colour