Design for another future / Morten Søndergaard & Jamie Allen (ISEA2013 Sydney)
Morten Søndergaard, Jamie Allen & Stine Ejsing-Dunn Design for another future: Reformatting the relation of art and science practices.
In a world in which growth is driven by creativity, art and technology are domains that should inspire and provoke in terms of methods and ways of thinking – in fact our digital media may in fact be the very concretisations of thought (F.Kittler). We explore how these similar yet different domains relate to each other. The relation of art and science has been central to many long standing debates within contexts of art education, university teaching, and human- and lab-based research. The relation also plays an important role in artistic practices influencing both conceptual and aesthetic positions of work production.
Thought as a theoretical problem, or a discourse of purely ideas and cultures, the arts and sciences have often seemed juxtaposed. However in restructuring the forms and formats of the practice of art and science in particular contexts and events of their composition. We are interested in how artists and scientists think and operate on a processual level, and in innovating the forms and formats chosen and design for the engagement of these processes. If “thinking is practice” (J.L.Nancy), then where, when and how this thinking is done is as important as the ideas themselves. Kathrine Hayles puts this down as a failing of the humanities’ literary discretions and directions, but with a discussion of the ‘action research’ modes that are available.
In this paper, we would like to take this discussion about ‘action research’ further, and investigate the art/science relation in practice. For this purpose, we will build upon the experiences and observations from various ‘re-mix’ situations in which artists and scientists meet in publishing, exhibition, conference and festival settings.
Design for another future / Morten Søndergaard & Jamie Allen (ISEA2013 Sydney)
Morten Søndergaard, Jamie Allen & Stine Ejsing-Dunn Design for another future: Reformatting the relation of art and science practices.
In a world in which growth is driven by creativity, art and technology are domains that should inspire and provoke in terms of methods and ways of thinking – in fact our digital media may in fact be the very concretisations of thought (F.Kittler). We explore how these similar yet different domains relate to each other. The relation of art and science has been central to many long standing debates within contexts of art education, university teaching, and human- and lab-based research. The relation also plays an important role in artistic practices influencing both conceptual and aesthetic positions of work production.
Thought as a theoretical problem, or a discourse of purely ideas and cultures, the arts and sciences have often seemed juxtaposed. However in restructuring the forms and formats of the practice of art and science in particular contexts and events of their composition. We are interested in how artists and scientists think and operate on a processual level, and in innovating the forms and formats chosen and design for the engagement of these processes. If “thinking is practice” (J.L.Nancy), then where, when and how this thinking is done is as important as the ideas themselves. Kathrine Hayles puts this down as a failing of the humanities’ literary discretions and directions, but with a discussion of the ‘action research’ modes that are available.
In this paper, we would like to take this discussion about ‘action research’ further, and investigate the art/science relation in practice. For this purpose, we will build upon the experiences and observations from various ‘re-mix’ situations in which artists and scientists meet in publishing, exhibition, conference and festival settings.