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Processes of Inquiry

Artistsinlabs–Processes of Inquiry, Ed. Prof. Dr. Jill Scott–Editorial Office: HGKZurich, ICS, 2006, SpringerWeinNewYork; 136 Pages with color Illustrations; Inc. DVD 13 documentaries from the artists-in-lab projects; ISBN 3-211-27957-1.

This book verifies the need for the arts and the sciences to work together in order to develop more creative and conceptual approaches to innovation and presentation. By blending ethnographical case studies, scientific viewpoints and critical essays, the focus of this research inquiry is the lab context. For scientists, the lab context is one of the most important educational experiences. For contemporary artists, laboratories are inspiring spaces to investigate, share know-how transfer and search for new collaboration potentials. The nine labs represented in this book are from the Life Sciences, Physics, Computing and Engineering sciences. An enclosed comprehensive DVD documents the results, the problems and serves as a guideline for the future of true Art/Sci experiments.
ESSAYS

Foreword, Sigrid Schade
Introduction: Processes of Inquiry, Jill Scott
Artists in Industry and the Academy: Collaborative Research, Interdisciplinary Scholarship, and the Interpretation of Hybrid Forms, Edward A. Shanken
Welcoming Uncertainty: The Strong Case for Coupling Art to Science and Technology, Roger Malina
Suggested Discourses for more Art_Sci Collaborations, Jill Scott
Perception-Translation-Transformation, René Stettler
Free Access or Entry Denied? Searching for Common Ground in the ‘artists-in-labs’ Project, Priska Gisler
Science in Trouble? Art brings Hope, Beat Gerber
Documentary Film as Research Analyses, Marille Hahne

CASE STUDIES artists-in-labs 2003-05

Institute for Geobotanics, ETH Zurich
BATS, Centre for Biosafety/Sustainability, Basel
ZMB, Centre for Microscopy, Basel
PSI, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen
Planetarium, Museum of Transportation, Lucerne
GlobIS, ETH Zurich
Artificial Intelligence Lab, Uni Zurich
CSEM, Alpnach
CoLab, ETH Zurich

ARTISTS REPORTS FROM THE LIFE SCIENCES

Thomas Isler, N.S. Harsha, Isabel Rohner, Shirley Soh
PHYSICS Nigel Helyer, Dominik Bastianello, Andrew Quinn, Clea T. Waite
COMPUTING/ENGINEERING, Tiffany Holmes, Axel Vogelsang, Margarete Jahrmann|Max Moswitzer, Adrianne Wortzel, Margaret Tan.

BIOGRAPHIES

For further Information please contact:
Director: Prof. Dr. Jill Scott
jill.scott[at]hgkz.ch,
Rene Stettler
stettler[at]centralnet.ch

Prof.Dr Jill Scott
jill.scott at hgkz dot ch
Institute Cultural Studies in Art , Media and Design
Vice Director: Z-Node. Planetary Collegium
Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich
School of Art and Design Zurich
Hafnerstrasse 31
CH-8031 Zürich
Tel. 0041 043 446 6420
Fax 0041 (0) 1 446 26 53

WEB INFORMATION:
Prof. Dr. Jill Scott
Media Art and Book Information
www.jillscott.org

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
The AIL Research Project
www.artistsinlabs.ch
The e-skin Lab Consortium
www.e-skin.ch