MONDAY 17TH FEBRUARY 2003

GENERAL DISCUSSION - AM

SOLO AUTHOR -> INTER-AUTHORSHIP

MEMORY

• Memory in body
• Memory of project / collaboration
  • practice based research OR practice as research
  • diffusion / access
• perception

ARTS / SCIENCE

Various processes including

• Merge & separation
• Divergence > evaluate > assess
• Artistic strategies kicking into process
• Process how to keep emergent
  • Design
    • Measurement
    • Timeline
    • Scientific projects woven with arts unpick / evaluate

Modes of peer review shared by arts & science

• Subjective, temporal, specific
• Separate from absolute principles

IDENTITY

• Defined through processes
• Author
• Inter-author (generosity / moral fiber)

ACKNOWEDGEMENTS

Arts interested in/on for collaborations with science

• heightening status
• funding available

Science does acknowledge arts when relevant to the write up … does it make a difference!?

Scientists have suspicions of arts input!

Problematic to talk about “culture of…” Science/Arts
Science Especially measurable
Arts much broader

• Long term recognized
• May not be so specific groundswell

Impact
Quality of endeavor

PUBLIC REPRESENTATION OF SCIENCE

• Popular interpretation (sell out? Or important?)
• Dissemination of knowledge
• Reductionism re: imaging
  (Roger Penrose / Stephen Hawkins
• hoodwinking general public into ‘thinking’ we understand quantum physicals etc
• ….. (Pictures / metaphors / analogies / etc ….)
  OR
  Under-estimation of how much we can understand
  E.g. Body Worlds huge success….

BIO-TECH

• V. crucial that knowledge is out there / clarity
• Public?? ‘Understand’??

MEDIA

• need to sort out how they deal with ‘issues’ in a responsible way
• different ways of understanding

BIO-ETHICS

Lack of debate (in schools, in degrees)

New Discourse which merges science / art
Neither art nor science

• Strategies what is role of artists?
  Concepts/visions

Hybrid
Or separate by convergent (stretch ability, fluidity)
Natural

TECHNOLOGY

• How much getting in the way
• Fetish sing means
• Gratuitous … effective?
• Pushed
• Eye candy (context specific if status assigned to tool or skill)
• Decorative superficiality cosmetic (but can convey dry, academic material (wider access)
• Surface only superfluous

SCIENCE

• Appropriating artist image / outrageously (Disneyland factor eye candy)
• Popular science spectacle
• Written / verbal
• Color coding
• Image evolution
  Grabbing of imaginations through ‘what it looks like’

WHAT IS ‘BEAUTY’? THE ROLE OF BEAUTY

• reduce complex practices into visual roles
• visualization & sonification

TOOLS

• Body into centre of digital interaction
• WEAR ME!!! Debate
• PLAY TOOLS tool kits MAX software (less object orientated)
• Changes notion of virtuosity / talent
  Artists own development of software & tools