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Curating Complexities in Art, Science, and Medicine: Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS) in Public Practice

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Abstract

What does art have to lend to Science and Technology Studies (STS)? Might we see art and its display in museums and galleries as a method of performing STS ‘by material means’? And what roles might STS scholars play in art-science collaborations? Drawing on our experiences with collaborations at the intersections of contemporary art and biology, we explore the similarities and overlapping practices of these knowledge communities and make a series of observations about the potential of the area of Art, Science, and Technology Studies (ASTS) to refigure and complicate the art-science landscape. Our analysis emphasizes the museum as a material public forum and curation as a form of knowing, histories of art and science, and examples of scholarly facilitation and intervention in art-science. We examine emerging patterns in ASTS scholarship and emerging roles for STS scholars as facilitators, participant-observers, curators, and collaborators, particularly in art-science institutions and newly emerging STS and art contexts in Denmark, and specifically, the Medical Museion. Our analysis reveals the persistent third leg of curation, cultural history, or STS as party to collaborations between artists and scientists.


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Author(s): Rogers HS, Hussey KD, Whiteley L, Bencard A, Gad C, Abrantes E

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: STS Encounters

Year: 2023

Volume: 15

Issue: 2

Pages: 2-17

Online publication date: 04/09/2023

Acceptance date: 01/06/2023

Date deposited: 05/06/2024

ISSN (electronic): 1904-4372

Publisher: Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies (DASTS)

URL: https://doi.org/10.7146/stse.v15i2.139814

DOI: 10.7146/stse.v15i2.139814


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