A very public affair
Art meets science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11935682 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kathleen Arnold (0000-0003-1847-2287, Wellcome Trust, corresponding author), Ken Arnold (Medical Museion, Copenhagen, Denmark) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 331-344 |
| Publication date | 2017-10-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0308-0188 • E-ISSN: 1743-2790 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03080188.2017.1381224 |
| OpenAlex | W2773764960 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
What happens in interdisciplinary practices between the arts and sciences? What determines their successes and failures, and how they should be conducted? Here I propose that we can deepen our understanding of them by looking at the role of one specific and, to my mind, vital aspect of many (most?) successful art/science collaborations, namely their presence in public. More specifically, I suggest that museums, having played a crucial historical role in shaping some specialized disciplinary thought, are now well-placed to encourage an opposite tendency towards trans-disciplinary activity. I elaborate this argument by focusing on three characteristics of museums that have made them ideal places to locate art-science collaborations: the role of exhibitions as units of investigation; the ascendency of artist/curators as unusual enquirers; and the enduring value of middle-sized things in these risky initiatives
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Art · Discipline · Epistemology · Exhibition · Ideal (ethics · Political science · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Value (mathematics · Visual arts · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Computer Science · Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |