HI
Responding again to Simon's prompt, yes - the ACEACE/AHRC Research Art and
Science Fellowships programme - did try to learn from and build on previous
UK and other international models including the New Technology Artists
Fellowships scheme which was set up by Alan Blackwell of Crucible and Lizzie
Muller then of the Junction in Cambridge around 2002 and responded also to
Steve Wilson's book and the report from the National Academy of Science in
the States and the UK Office of Science and Technology report by Emma
Rothschild in 2001 which argued that having different educational strands
for art and science was anachronistic in this day and age..
So we designed a new programme - which also sought to extend the rather
limited R&D possibilities available through Wellcome Trust sciart awards -
and did quite a lot of work with our partner agency based on what we had
learnt to optimise the guidelines rather than starting from scratch
....(however we didn't have any detailed insights into the Australian
programmes and it is rather fine to find out now). The story of the
programme we ran can be read at
http://www.leonardo.info/isast/journal/toc395.html
and then yet again building on this we ran a programme of Artists Placements
in Research and Industry contexts and a report on this (written by a social
anthropologist from Cambridge who was attached observer) can be viewed at:
http://www.interact.mmu.ac.uk/resources/BuildingOnUncommonGrounds
The report was also published in a book called (Un)Common Ground (2007)
edited by David Garcia, Cathy Brickwood, Tim Puttnam and myself - which
looks at different case studies of artists and designers working across
sectors and disciplines. More about this at:
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Happy to say more about any of this....much of it was inspired also by doing
the CODE conference in 2001 which yes addressed many art and science issues
but went quite far beyond
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/CODE/
look forward to hearing more
all best
Bronac
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