Doctoral Dissertation Research: Hannah Rogers: SymbioticA: The Practices of Art and Science

博士论文研究：汉娜·罗杰斯：共生A：艺术与科学的实践

• 批准号: 0924379
• 负责人: Judith Reppy
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0924379&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Hannah; Rogers

This doctoral dissertation research improvement grant--funded through the Biology & Society initiative between the Biological Sciences Directorate and the Science, Technology & Society (STS) Program at NSF--supports research that explores the question of how "art" and "science" work as categories that circumscribe bodies of knowledge. The research interrogates how knowledge communities label and materially shape artistic and scientific objects in various contexts. This research focuses on bioartists and how they understand and struggle with materials associated with biological knowledge production. Through their work, bioartists demonstrate and contest broader aesthetic, ethical, and political values. The members of the bioart movement use biological materials and laboratory techniques to create projects that critically question modern biology. This project conducts an ethnographic study at the artist-run biological research laboratory, SymbioticA, located at the University of Western Australia. SymbioticA actors position their activities according to a particular understanding of the art/science distinction. This investigation of bioart work can offer new ways to think about how the public can be engaged in scientific issues and the democratization of science through art.The research will also contribute to scholarship on how knowledge systems work by unpacking the categories of art and science. The project will show how social actors in different contexts rhetorically produce knowledge as either "art" or as "science." The intellectual merit of this project is insight into the nature of specific critiques in the life sciences and contributions to current STS scholarship that analyzes concepts as categories. A broader impact of this research is that it investigates how art can inform and engage our understanding of science.

这个博士论文研究改进补助金-通过生物科学理事会和科学之间的生物学会倡议资助，技术社会（STS）在NSF计划-支持研究，探讨如何“艺术”和“科学”作为限制知识体系的类别工作的问题。 本研究探讨知识社群如何在不同的情境下，标示和实质性地塑造艺术与科学的对象。这项研究的重点是生物艺术家以及他们如何理解和处理与生物知识生产相关的材料。通过他们的工作，生物艺术家展示和竞争更广泛的美学，道德和政治价值观。 生物艺术运动的成员使用生物材料和实验室技术来创建批判性质疑现代生物学的项目。该项目在西澳大利亚大学的艺术家运营的生物研究实验室SymbioticA进行民族志研究。共生行为者根据对艺术/科学区别的特定理解来定位他们的活动。 生物艺术作品的这种调查可以提供新的方式来思考公众如何参与科学问题和科学通过艺术的民主化。这项研究也将有助于通过解开艺术和科学的类别来研究知识系统如何工作。 该项目将展示不同背景下的社会行为者如何以“艺术”或“科学”的形式创造知识。“这个项目的智力价值是洞察生命科学中具体批评的本质，以及对当前STS奖学金的贡献，该奖学金将概念作为类别进行分析。这项研究的一个更广泛的影响是，它调查了艺术如何告知和参与我们对科学的理解。