num_pages: 328
description: How the tools of STS can be used to understand art and science and the practices of these knowledge-making communities.In Art Science and the Politics of Knowledge  Hannah Star Rogers suggests that art and science are not as different from each other as we might assume. She shows how the tools of science and technology studies (STS) can be applied to artistic practice offering new ways of thinking about people and objects that have largely fallen outside the scope of STS research. Arguing that the categories of art and science are labels with specific powers to order social worldsand that art and science are best understood as networks that produce knowledgeRogers shows through a series of cases the similarities and overlapping practices of these knowledge communities. The cases which range from nineteenth-century artisans to contemporary bioartists illustrate how art can provide the basis for a new subdiscipline called art science and technology studies (ASTS) offering hybrid tools for investigating artscience collaborations. Rogerss subjects include the work of father and son glassblowers the Blaschkas whose glass models produced in the nineteenth century for use in biological classification are now displayed as works of art; the physics photographs of documentary photographer Berenice Abbott; and a bioart lab that produces work functioning as both artwork and scientific output. Finally Rogers an STS scholar and contemporary artscience curator draws on her own work to consider the concept of curation as a form of critical analysis.
language: English
title: Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge
publisher: The MIT Press