Read
Ariane Koek "Cern: Where Art and Science Collide", The Art Newspaper (Oct. 2011).
Search the web, books or the texts below for an artwork that you think combines art and science in an interesting/important way. Identify which of Koek's "four strands" the project fits into.
On your 'Investigations' reading web page, name the project and link to a webpage about it. Describe why you think the project is interesting and how it fits into one of Koek's four strands.
Texts you could search for artworks in:
- Stephen Wilson "Artists Working with Microbiology" (excerpt from Information Arts, The MIT Press, 2001)
- Stephen Wilson "Plants and Animals" (excerpt from Information Arts, The MIT Press, 2001)
- Sian Ede "Ambiguities and Singularities" (excerpt from Art & Science, I. B. Tauris, 2006)
- Hans H Diebner "Performative Science" (excerpt from Performative Science and Beyond - Involving the Process in Research, Springer Vienna Architecture, 2006)
- Tom Vanderbilt "The Body Electric: Tom Vanderbilt on Christian Nold" (Artforum, March 2007)
- Carsten Höller "The Baudouin Experiment: A Deliberate Non-Fatalistic Large Scale Experiment in Deviation", 2000 (in Participation, edited by Claire Bishop, The MIT Press, 2006)
Make a 'Investigations' reading assignment webpage with the respons to the reading. Make a link to the webpage from your homepage.