Research

Research Outcomes

Since its inception in 2003, the Institute for Cultural Studies has housed and supported the artists-in-labs program. Our research agenda is part of this institute’s larger agenda, which is to develop an academic discourse between cultures of difference. However, we have invented our own unique research methodologies based on observation, monitoring, analysis of process, and discussion generated by the various programs we have developed. Therefore the following evaluations have taken place:

1. We have monitored, guided and reported on how the various placements inside different science research centres, (physics, computing, engineering, life sciences) can extend collaboration potentials and create more thematic discussion or explore pertinent relevant themes for society

2. We contextualize trans disciplinary results of the artists-In-labs program though academic publications in which documentary films, creative discourses and processes show how disciplines can be compared.

4. We are part of funded research programs that are studying the basis and affects of our unique methodology on various processes of production:

5. We currently explore if political relations to international communities can be combined with inter-cultural exchanges with art/science and if this is a viable methodology for future art and science programs.

6. We conduct an analysis about the communication of science by offering a series of know-how transfer workshops and engage sociologists to investigate how these transfers can be incorporated into future methodologies.

7. We explore how the “art world” reacts to artist’s explorations and interventions into science by conducting analysis from international exhibitions about the transfer of complex information into the public realm.

 

Swiss artists-in-labs conferences:

  1. Nomadic Transitions. 2004 ZHdK
  2. Illustration verses Interpretation. 2004 ZHdK
  3. Art as a Catalyst – Science et Cité. 2006 KKL Lucern
  4. Trespassing Allowed 2008. ZHdK
  5. Art as Environmental Politics?. 2011 Kunsthalle, Lucern
  6. How Artists and Scientists collaborate. 2011 SwissNex San Francisco

 

Exhibition List:

  1. Art in Swiss science labs. 2006 KKL Lucerne
  2. Lucid Fields. 2008 ISEA Singapore
  3. Shanshui – Both Ways. 2010 Shanghai, Bern
  4. Think Art – Act Science with QUARC. 2010 SNF Bern
  5. Think Art – Act Science. 2010-2011 Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
  6. Think Art – Act Science. 2011 Kunsthalle Luzern
  7. Cœur et sons – Paysages sonores. 2011 Jazz Festival Montreux
  8. Think Art – Act Science. 2011 SFAI San Francisco
  9. When small sees big. 2011 Microwave Festival Hong Kong