Short description:

Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society.

Long description:

Contributors investigate the motivation behind scientifically-embedded contemporary art practices as well as art-based scientific research and engagement that attempt to shape society.

This edited volume reflects the rapidly developing practices comprising integrative and collaborative work across different knowledge domains (including art and science), the benefit of those processes to the individual, to knowledge production (and its complexity) and ultimately the benefits to society (why it is worth doing). The book will provide an overview of the factors in which the exhibition and performance of scientifically-engaged art inside and outside of traditional museum spaces has instigated cultural and aesthetic transformations and social interactions while presenting a variety of opportunities for educators, scientists, artists and the interested public to critically expand its engagement.

The book is intended for scholars interested in collaborative and/or integrative work who study research, methodology, art history, science, and museum studies.

Table of Contents:

Preface  Introduction  Prologue: Three Reflections: Building Catalytic Structures  Part 1. The Construction and Deconstruction of Silos  1.     Art & Science: The Forming of Many Cultures  2.     Global Challenges Require Multi-Disciplinary Solutions: The Origin, Intent, and Outcomes of a Major National Academy of Sciences Study  3.     Art, Science and Technology Studies: Charting Collaborative Practice  4.     Why STEAM: Rationale, Implementation, and Impact in Formal and Informal Settings  5.      Exposing Ourselves: Elucidating Artists' Methods to Better Establish Their Value in Critical Research  6.      Cultivating the Field of Neuroarts  7.      Parallel Distributed Collaborations: Building collaborative capacity for artists and scientists to tackle complex problems  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  9.  Life As We Tell It: A Health Revolution Through Narratives & Creative Expressions  10.  Interspecies: Art, Science and the Animal  11.   Parsing the Senses to Explore Complex Systems ? Multimodal Investigation at the AlloSphere Research Facility  12.   Recording Ice: Art and Scientific Knowledge Production in the Arctic  Part 3. Societal and Cultural Impact of Integrative Approaches  13.  Embody, Engage, Enact  14. Artivist Intervention: A Case Study of The Taiwanese Artivist Vincent Huang  15. The Returned Gaze: Comparing Native and non-Native Audience Responses to Indigenous Films  16.  Atelier de la Nature: A Living Community Artwork  17. Artists-in-labs as an Activist Strategy  18.  Drawing a New Culture:  Bringing Scientists and Artists Together at Sea  19.  The UC Berkeley Sagehen Creek Field Station Art Science Program:  Thought Process and Experience  Part 4. Collaborative Processes in Imagining Future Practices  20. Confronting Crises: Art-Science as Mirror, Connector, and Portal  21. The Art and Technology Organizations of the Future: Can experiments forge new organizational trajectories?  22. Translating Experiential Knowledge and Measuring Impact in Community Arts and Health Programs  23. Imagining the integrative research museum: Articulating values and valuing disagreement  24. Well-Being: Cultural Institution Impact and Purpose  25. Framing the impacts and potential of integrating contemporary art and science practices and goals through a community-wide ecosystem lens