Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge
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https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/13885.001.0001Author(s)
Rogers, Hannah Star
Language
EnglishAbstract
How the tools of STS can be used to understand art and science and the practices of these knowledge-making communities. In Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge, 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. The 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.
Keywords
History of science; History of art; Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledgeISBN
9780262369589, 9780262543682Publisher
The MIT PressPublisher website
https://mitpress.mit.eduPublication date and place
Cambridge, 2022Imprint
The MIT PressSeries
The MIT Press,Classification
History of science
History of art
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899
Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge