Climate sciences meet visual arts
This set of comments reports experiences from a recent “science-meets-arts”-project in Germany, in which students from the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg (HFBK) shared day-to-day life in climate research groups for several months. The project was envisioned as a process of mutual inspiration with the aim of producing a joint exhibition and symposium at the end. This paper introduces the project as well as the subsequent commentaries and also presents some of my own observations.
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Invited commentaries
The visiting artist researcher experiment
Mar 31, 2015The visiting artist researcher experiment discussed here brought together visual artists and climate scientists, amongst them my research group which studies storms. The …
“I hope to offer a unique artistic perspective on a topic which is hidden from our everyday view” States my application. Will I …
To observe art and science in interaction offered a great opportunity for me as cultural anthropologist to learn about the production of climate …
Many climate scientists find themselves confronted with the challenge of purportedly “knowing better” — while this is a valid claim with respect to …
Artistic research — why and wherefore?
Mar 31, 2015The notion of ‘artistic research’ is a buzzword in contemporary cultural policy, scientific and artistic discourses. This text is not trying to add …
Artistic research and climate science: transdisciplinary learning and spaces of possibilities
Mar 31, 2015Taking a wider view, departing from the specific case of the Hamburg exchange between artists and climate scientists, this comment envisages some radical …