This new monograph is an engaging, accessible, and thought-provoking study of the myriad ways in which art and science intersect, interact, and combine. The book is divided into a series of case studies of practitioners, or practice collectives, whose work cannot be neatly defined within either science or art. Through discussion of these case studies, Rogers illustrates how the theoretical frameworks of both art and science can be applied transversally, revealing the potential for methodologies and objects to operate in multiple ways, or with multiple epistemic valences, and thus to occupy a hybrid art-science position. Her intention is to give credibility to the emerging field of art, science, and technology studies (ASTS), which applies the tools of science and technology studies (STS) to artmaking and examines the ways in which certain actors traverse and thus problematize such neat epistemic categories as “art” and “science.”
Chapter 1 explores the work of...