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T037


STS and Artistic Research 
Convenors:
Peter Peters (Maastricht University)
Henk Borgdorff (Leiden University)
Trevor Pinch (Cornell University)
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Stream:
Tracks
Location:
118
Sessions:
Thursday 1 September, -, -, -, -, -, -, Friday 2 September, -
Time zone: Europe/Madrid

Short Abstract:

This track explores STS research on the arts and Artistic Research. It covers studies of artistic practices; reflexive practitioners at the boundaries between the arts and science, technology, and medicine; arts-based research methods; and enhanced modes of publication.

Long Abstract:

STS scholars have studied the arts in relation to questions about science and its history, e.g. exploring the role of artists in creating the visual apparatus used by scientists. Recent work in STS has focused on the backstage, practical and preparatory activities constituting works of art or people's engagement with these works. The interest in artistic practices can be linked to research agenda's in STS such as subjectivity and the senses, technology and materiality, boundary work, and embodied, situated, and enacted forms of cognition.

STS emphasizes the constitutive role of practices and things in the production of knowledge and technologies. This 'practice turn' is manifest in the field of Artistic research, positioned at the interface of art worlds and academic research. In artistic research, material practices and things - e.g. performances or artefacts - are in a methodological sense the vehicles through which knowledge and understanding can be gained. Epistemologically they embody the knowledge and understanding we gain. This type of research does not easily fit the conventional frameworks and values of actors and institutions in science and technology.

This track proposes a dialogue of STS research on the arts and Artistic research. It could include topics such as studies of artistic practices; reflexive practitioners at the boundaries between the arts and science, technology, and medicine; non-propositional forms of reasoning; unconventional (arts-based) research methods and enhanced modes of presentation and publication. Contributors are invited to use alternative (rich-media) formats for their presentations.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 1 September, 2016, -