Practicing Art/Science

<p>Over the last two decades multiple initiatives of transdisciplinary collaboration across art science and technology have seen the light of day. Why by whom and under what circumstances are such initiatives promoted? What does their experimental character look like - and what can be learned epistemologically and institutionally from probing the multiple practices of art/science at work? </p><p>In answer to the questions raised <i>Practicing Art/Science </i>contrasts topical positions and insightful case studies ranging from the detailed investigation of art at the nanoscale to the material analysis of Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and its cracked smile. In so doing this volume brings to bear the practice turn in science and technology studies on the empirical investigation of multifaceted experimentation across contemporary art science and technology in situ. Against the background of current discourse on artistic research the introduction not only explains the particular relevance of the practice turn in STS to tackle the interdisciplinary task at hand but offers also a timely survey of varying strands of artistic experimentation.</p><p>In bringing together ground-breaking studies from internationally renowned scholars and upcoming researchers in sociology art theory and artistic practice as well as history and philosophy of science <em>Practicing Art/Science</em> will be essential reading for practitioners and professionals in said fields as well as postgraduate students and representatives of higher education and research policy more broadly.</p>