{"product_id":"art-science-and-the-politics-of-knowledge-isbn-9780262543682","title":"Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the tools of STS can be used to understand art and science and the practices of these knowledge-making communities.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eArt, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e, Hannah Star Rogers suggests that art and science are not as different from each other as we might assume. She shows how the tools of science and technology studies (STS) can be applied to artistic practice, offering new ways of thinking about people and objects that have largely fallen outside the scope of STS research. Arguing that the categories of art and science are labels with specific powers to order social worlds—and that art and science are best understood as networks that produce knowledge—Rogers shows, through a series of cases, the similarities and overlapping practices of these knowledge communities. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe cases, which range from nineteenth-century artisans to contemporary bioartists, illustrate how art can provide the basis for a new subdiscipline called art, science, and technology studies (ASTS), offering hybrid tools for investigating art–science collaborations. Rogers’s subjects include the work of father and son glassblowers, the Blaschkas, whose glass models, produced in the nineteenth century for use in biological classification, are now displayed as works of art; the physics photographs of documentary photographer Berenice Abbott; and a bioart lab that produces work functioning as both artwork and scientific output. Finally, Rogers, an STS scholar and contemporary art–science curator, draws on her own work to consider the concept of curation as a form of critical analysis.Foreword I by Geoffrey C. Bowker ix\u003cbr\u003eForeword II by Barry Barnes xiii\u003cbr\u003ePreface: The Rise of Art-Science xvii\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments xxix\u003cbr\u003e1 Introduction: Art in Science and Technology Studies 1\u003cbr\u003e2 Positioning Aesthetic Knowledge: The Blaschka Models 39\u003cbr\u003e3 Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott 75\u003cbr\u003e4 The Practices of Tactical Media 97\u003cbr\u003e5 Symbiotica: Culturing Art and Science 143\u003cbr\u003e6 Curating Art's Work in the Age of Biotechnology 177\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Art, Science, and Technology Studies 217\u003cbr\u003eNotes 243\u003cbr\u003eReferences 251\u003cbr\u003eIndex 271“An engaging, accessible, and thought-provoking study of the myriad ways in which art and science intersect, interact, and combine.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLeonardo \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“From Blaschka to bioart, Rogers provides original and fascinating insight into the commonalities, intersections, and power dynamics between art and science, demonstrating the ways that STS can probe the communities and methods of both.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003ePamela Smith,Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University; author of \u003ci\u003eThe Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“Rogers artfully troubles categories of art\/science and lines drawn between artists\/scientists. Her ASTS project encourages us to take heed of varied and intricate knowledge-making practices in our own efforts to explore new ways of world-making.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eDeboleena Roy, Professor of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University; author of \u003ci\u003eMolecular Feminisms\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “Hannah Rogers captures, with insight and hindsight, the emerging areas of art-science collaboration and practices. With a strong documentation of the bio-arts, \u003ci\u003eArt, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e also brings foresight to the post-pandemic world and lays a foundation for future art and STS practices. Sciences and technologies cannot win future wars alone, but will require investments in art-science and other mechanisms for cultural change.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eRoger F. Malina, Executive Editor, Leonardo\/ISAST Publications (MIT Press); Director of the ArtSciLab, University of Texas at Dallas\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eHannah Star Rogers\u003c\/b\u003e is Visiting Scholar at the University of Edinburgh in Science, Technology, and Innovation Studies (STIS) and lead editor of the \u003ci\u003eRoutledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303360188645,"sku":"NP9780262543682","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262543682.jpg?v=1767721810","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/art-science-and-the-politics-of-knowledge-isbn-9780262543682","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}