Ruptures and Wrong-Footings: Destabilizing Disciplinary Cultures

FIONA CRISP is a founding member of The Cultural Negotiation of Science and is a professor of fine art at Northumbria University, Newcastle, U.K. One of her recent projects, collaborating with three world-leading facilities for fundamental science, can be accessed at www.materialsight.wordpress.com. Crisp’s work is represented by Matt’s Gallery London.

CHRIS DORSETT is an artist-curator whose career helped pioneer the contemporary interface between experimental art practices and the museum sector. He has undertaken many interventionist projects within collection-based institutions concerned with scientific knowledge. Dorsett’s personal archive has recently been accessioned by the Pitt Rivers Museum, where he is currently a research affiliate.

LOUISE MACKENZIE, PhD, is an independent artist and researcher in the U.K. She is a member of The Cultural Negotiation of Science research group. Recent research explores relationships between making practices across arts and bioengineering and relationships between humans and nonhumans.