Art and Innovation
Subtitle: The Xerox PARC Artist-in-Residence Program (Leonardo Books)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: July 9, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780262082754
Subjects: Computing and Information Technology; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Industrial / Commercial Art & Design; Research And Development (Engineering); Art; Art & Art Instruction; USA; Careers - General; General; Methodology; Art / History / Contemporary (1945-); Study & Teaching; Art and technology; Palo Alto Research Center; Technological Innovations; Xerox Corporation; Xerox Corporation.
Description: The idea behind Xerox's interdisciplinary Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) is simple: If you put creative people in a hothouse setting, innovation will naturally emerge. PARC's Artist-in-Residence Program (PAIR) brings artists who use new media to PARC and pairs them with researchers who often use the same media, though in different contexts. The result is both interesting art and new scientific innovations.

Art and Innovation explores the unique process that grew from this pairing of new media artists and scientists working at the frontier of developing technologies. In addition to discussing specific works created during several long-term residencies, the artists and researchers reveal the similarities and differences in their approaches and perspectives as they engage each other in a search for new methods of communication and creativity.