Science curriculums for artists and art curriculums for scientists.
We (at eca) have been discussing these sorts of issues for a while. How
would you design an interdisciplinary studies programme? How would you
employ creative practices as the connective tissue between disciplines that,
at least in academia, rarely connect to one another?
Beyond these questions, how would you resource a programme of study and
research that, by definition, will change its shape and focus as the
students come and go? How do you ensure it remains motile and open to new
connections? How do you broker the agreements between departments and
faculties that allow the necessary resources to be available when the lead
times will, again by definition, be very short? How do you convince
silo-ists protective of their ever diminishing resources to share what they
have left?
If I knew the answers to this second set of questions then eca would be the
place you would go to find those arts curricula for scientists and science
curricula for artists. Other mash-ups would ideally be on the changing
day-menu as well.
Itıs still just an idea though...
Simon
Simon Biggs
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From: erich <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 15:46:40 +0200
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Subject: Re: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Fwd: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Art-Science and
Science-Art Curricula: Call for Contributions
hi armin,
> thanks for bringing up this point about what (most) scientists think
> about art. I did not mention this as I was trying to limit my rant.
well we should not start a scientist bashing.
the conclusion of my experience is just that one can not expect a
scientist knowing more then the average about art just because s/he
is a scientist, its nothing i want to hold against scientists.
when working there at the research station it just caught me in a moment
of surprise.
i would like to speculate and turn it around as well: we can not expect
an artist to know more then average about science just because s/he is
an artist.
> so to close the art science gap, maybe what is needed is an art
> curriculum for scientists focusing on contemporary critical practices
and what about a science curriculum for artists ?
best
erich
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