The Entanglement of Arts and Sciences: On the Transaction Costs of Transdisciplinary Research Settings

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Authors

  • Martin Tröndle
  • Steven Greenwood
  • Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan
  • Wolfgang Tschacher
  • Volker Kirchberg
  • Stéphanie Wintzerith
  • Karen van den Berg
  • Sibylle Omlin
  • Sukandar Kartadinata
  • Christophe Vaillant
  • Patricia Reed
  • Mauritius Seeger
  • Enrico Viola
  • Valentin Schmidt
  • Roman Rammelt
  • Behrang Alavi
  • Nicolai Karl
  • Roland Wäspe
Using the research project eMotion – mapping museum experience as a working example, the exposition examines the advantages and risks, challenges and hurdles, methods and management of projects based on transdisciplinary art research. On the one hand, analysis shows that the participating researchers’ embedded character, in their respective disciplines, requires a specific management in order to increase the formation of group identity and to get used to collective authorship. On the other, it underlines that transdisciplinary research does more than simply shed light on the investigated object from several perspectives. Rather, the integration of the arts can lead to a new epistemology via different forms of data displays such as sonification and image-producing processes, which in turn create a new aesthetic dimension.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal for Artistic Research
Issue number1
Number of pages21
ISSN2235-0225
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Publication statusPublished - 2011

Bibliographical note

This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (13DPD3-120799 / 1). We thank the Institute for Research in Design and Art, University of Applied Sciences of Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, for administrative support and Ubisense for providing the position-tracking technology.

We would especially like to thank the eMotion-team: The media artist and technical director of eMotion, Steven Greenwood; the psychologist Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Tschacher; the art sociologist Prof. Dr. Volker Kirchberg; the visitor study specialist Dr. Stéphanie Wintzerith; the art theorists Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg and Prof. Sibylle Omlin; Sukandar Kartadinata and Christophe Vaillant for developing the electronic glove; Patricia Reed, Mauritius Seeger, Enrico Viola, Valentin Schmidt for the information design and programming; Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan for data sonification; Roman Rammelt and Behrang Alavi for the database management and Nicolai Karl for managing the tracking technology. We warmly thank Roland Wäspe, director of the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, who made it possible to turn the museum into a laboratory.

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