Experimental systems : future knowledge in artistic research / edited by Michael Schwab.

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[2013]
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We don't know what we don't know. This makes it difficult to imagine research that will produce truly new knowledge. In the sciences, the experimental approach has proved its worth in generating what subsequently requires understanding. Can the emergent field of artistic research be inspired by recent thinking about the history and workings of science? How can artists engage with experimentation to extend artistic values and deliver future knowledge? In this book fourteen contemporary artists, musicians, and theorists engage with Hans-Jorg Rheinberger's widely studied theory of experimental systems in an effort to determine how experimentation can productively be put to work in the arts. An interview with Rheinberger himself probes research as a potentially shared space between the otherwise different activities of art and science.

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Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2013]

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229 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 28 cm.

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Contents

A Theory of Experimentation in Art? Reading Kubler's History of Art after Rheinberger's Experimental Systems / Stefanie Stallschus -- Electrical Images : Snapshots of an Exploration / Hannes Rickli -- Material Experiments : "Phenomeno-Technology" in the Art of the New Materialists / Susanne Witzgall -- Whatever Remains, However Improbable : British Experimental Music and Experimental Systems / Virginia Anderson -- Of Arnold Schoenberg's Klavierstiuck op. 33a, "a Game of Chess," and the Emergence of New Epistemic Thing / Darla M. Crispin -- Research Organs as Experimental Systems : Constructivist Notions of Experimentation in Artistic Research / Peter Peters -- A Laboratory View of Art / Gabriele Gramelsberger -- Artistic Practices and Epistemic Things / Henk Borgdorff -- Artistic Experiments as Research / Elke Bippus -- Toward a Practice of Novel Epistemic Artefacts / Stephen A. R. Scrivener -- Epistemic Complexity and Experimental Systems in Music Performance / Paulo de Assis -- Criticism and Experimental Systems / Paolo Giudici -- Epistemic Events / Neal White -- Forming and Being Informed / Michael Schwab.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
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  • 9789058679734
  • 905867973X