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- ARS SCIENTIA explores and encourages collaboration between artists and scientists in Chicago through Conversations and Salons. It is a program of the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Science Chicago. Find out more at www.ars-scientia.org
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- Animals Autism and Design
Chicago Cultural Center
Monday, May 4 at 6:00pm - Autism, Animals and Design
Chicago Cultural Center
Monday, May 4 at 6:00pm - Ars Scientia:: Waves, Beats +...
Chicago Cultural Center
Monday, March 23 at 6:00pm - Structuring Change
Chicago Cultural Center
Monday, February 9 at 6:30pm - Exploring Environmentalism
Chicago Cultural Center
Monday, January 26 at 6:00pm
Ars Scientia
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Liam Heneghan
DePaul University’s Institute for Nature and Culture
Developing Research Agenda: The Arts and Humanities
We are currently undertaking a project to develop a research agenda for the arts and humanities on behalf of the mission and aims of Chicago Wilderness. Our idea is the arts and humanities have a crucial role to play ...in the development of the healthy relationship with the environment envisioned by Chicago Wilderness yet these disciplines are rarely systematically integrated into conservation planning.
As the first step we are organizing a series of three open discussions to provide opportunities for interested persons to contribute ideas and raise questions relevant to the role of the arts and humanities in realizing the aims of Chicago Wilderness.
7:00pm on the DePaul campus, on the second Tuesdays of March, April and May: Environmental Science Conference Room on the second floor of McGowan South, 1110 W. Belden.
• Tuesday, March 10 - Art and Design Read More
Developing Research Agenda: The Arts and Humanities
We are currently undertaking a project to develop a research agenda for the arts and humanities on behalf of the mission and aims of Chicago Wilderness. Our idea is the arts and humanities have a crucial role to play ...in the development of the healthy relationship with the environment envisioned by Chicago Wilderness yet these disciplines are rarely systematically integrated into conservation planning.
As the first step we are organizing a series of three open discussions to provide opportunities for interested persons to contribute ideas and raise questions relevant to the role of the arts and humanities in realizing the aims of Chicago Wilderness.
7:00pm on the DePaul campus, on the second Tuesdays of March, April and May: Environmental Science Conference Room on the second floor of McGowan South, 1110 W. Belden.
• Tuesday, March 10 - Art and Design Read More
Liam Heneghan
These are interesting questions, and I share [or perhaps overlap] with concerns regarding art and science collaborations undertaken in order to further a particular agenda [nothing wrong with agendas per se] with results that can be frankly tedious. Scientists can demand of art that it makes projects pretty [a type of... grubby mercantilism], and art may draw on science to achieve a certain luster of mechanistic glamour.
Perhaps such viewpoints derive from the perspective of the consumption of the final product [especially when a very particular response is solicited: e.g. reduce your ecological footprint!]; but from the perspective of processes, especially the processes of knowledge production, this is where the more interesting cross-pollination occurs. Both art and science as creative enterprises work well together, in my experience of such things, when artists and scientists develop working relationships, where as creative people they influence each others work processes.Read More
Perhaps such viewpoints derive from the perspective of the consumption of the final product [especially when a very particular response is solicited: e.g. reduce your ecological footprint!]; but from the perspective of processes, especially the processes of knowledge production, this is where the more interesting cross-pollination occurs. Both art and science as creative enterprises work well together, in my experience of such things, when artists and scientists develop working relationships, where as creative people they influence each others work processes.Read More
Daniel
2.) But if an artwork successfully avoids that programmatic element, what is in it for science? Why should science collaborate with art unless to propagate its knowledge or world view?
3.) When I see moving/provocative/stirring artworks that are ostensibly collaborations between art and science, I'm often actually seein...g artworks that are collaborations between art and scientific activism. In these cases, is art making itself into propaganda? Is that a problem?Read More
3.) When I see moving/provocative/stirring artworks that are ostensibly collaborations between art and science, I'm often actually seein...g artworks that are collaborations between art and scientific activism. In these cases, is art making itself into propaganda? Is that a problem?Read More
Daniel
I want to ask a few provocative questions (that I hope, but sadly doubt, someone will take up) for the sake of discussion:
1.) Is anyone at all worried that today's audiences will engage art that overtly addresses science as if it were some sort of glossy marketing scheme? Just really fancy powerpoint? I regularly fi...nd myself disengaging with art that has a noticeable “program,” such as transferring scientific knowledge. Don't get me wrong, I love science. I'm just really turned off by art that seems to have an agenda: either it is “pushing” something; or it's the work of a sort of a tickled inventor, “Look all these neat things we can do with science!” I've noticed that others in the audience only regard these sorts of works superficially, with a “That's pretty,” a “Hmm,” or at best, “Wow,” before they move on. Does artwork that deeply affects audiences, that moves them, have to contain some ambiguity? And no program?Read More
1.) Is anyone at all worried that today's audiences will engage art that overtly addresses science as if it were some sort of glossy marketing scheme? Just really fancy powerpoint? I regularly fi...nd myself disengaging with art that has a noticeable “program,” such as transferring scientific knowledge. Don't get me wrong, I love science. I'm just really turned off by art that seems to have an agenda: either it is “pushing” something; or it's the work of a sort of a tickled inventor, “Look all these neat things we can do with science!” I've noticed that others in the audience only regard these sorts of works superficially, with a “That's pretty,” a “Hmm,” or at best, “Wow,” before they move on. Does artwork that deeply affects audiences, that moves them, have to contain some ambiguity? And no program?Read More
Kelly Pope
I was really interested in how the talk focused on the social aspects of art, and what that can do for science. Artists motivated by things science tell us can bring these things to the public, with creativity, elegance, and a playfulness. I saw this event advertised in my dorm and mentioned it to my professor (who was... having class at the same time as the talk) and she decided to take the class to the event. I'm really glad we went.Read More
Liam Heneghan
For those who are interested in themes of exploring the intersections/overlaps of Nature and Culture please considering joining our group DePaul Institute for Nature and Culture on facebook. It will allow us to update you on our events, conversations, guest speakers and projects.
In particular, we are currently devel...oping a "research agenda" in which we attempt to integrate the Arts and Humanities into regional efforts to protect and restore biodiversity, your input could be crucial!
Liam Heneghan, Co-Director of Institute for Nature and Culture and Co-Chair of Chicago Wilderness Science team
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In particular, we are currently devel...oping a "research agenda" in which we attempt to integrate the Arts and Humanities into regional efforts to protect and restore biodiversity, your input could be crucial!
Liam Heneghan, Co-Director of Institute for Nature and Culture and Co-Chair of Chicago Wilderness Science team
Read More
