Artists are generally going into these situations looking for surprising outcomes whilst scientists are often unsure what their value will be to their work. Having done a few of these interdisciplinary collaborative things this has been my experience. That said, many scientists are up for unlikely outcomes of uncertain value. It is just that the way academic research is funded there is this pressure to prove the economic and social value of the probable outcomes well in advance of them coming into being. These pressures function to pervert what research is all about (finding/creating things you didn¹t know you might find/create). How can you know the value of something that doesn¹t exist yet? Why does everything have to have a value? Many artists and scientists prefer not to be concerned with these things. Such considerations are imposed upon them.
Regards Simon Simon Biggs Research Professor edinburgh college of art [email protected] www.eca.ac.uk www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ [email protected] www.littlepig.org.uk AIM/Skype: simonbiggsuk From: james morris <[email protected]> Reply-To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 23:26:29 +0100 (BST) To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] Internet of Things....ResearchOpportunitiesonEPSRC funded Project] On 25/6/2009, "Simon Biggs" <[email protected]> wrote: >recorded and all original material retained for peer assessment. This is not >foolproof (there are plenty of examples of poor science around) but nobody >has proposed a better system yet. It is unusual for artistic work to be >undertaken in this context but not novel. Otherâ?Ts have done it. It often >leads to surprising outcomes, especially for the scientists. I'm interested to know what the nature of the surprising outcomes are for scientists? (Are the artists less surprised by the outcomes?) http://www.principlesofnature.net/gallery_of_selected_art_works/the_discrete ness_of_infinity_art_science_parallels.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/sep/02/darwins canopy _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
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