Artists in Labs: Networking the Margins, w. DVD

Essays:Foreword | Sigrid SchadeIntroduction: Networking is both an art and a science! |Jill ScottFormative encounters: Laboratory life and artistic practice | Andrea GlauserOn the nature of interactions | Lloyd AndersonBacteria, robots and networks | Dominik LandwehrArtists-who-care! Shared perspectives on social and ethical responsibility | Jill ScottArt at the end of tunnel vision: A syncretic surmise |Roy AscottArt and science research teams? Some arguments in favour of a culture of dissent | Nina ZschockeCase Studies: Think Art - Act Science: Meeting on an equal level | Irène HedigerNational public support of trans-disciplinary projects | Aurelia Müller (Federal Office of Culture) Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ) | ETH ZurichCenter for Integrative Genomics (CIG) | University of LausanneWSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, BellinzonaEawag: The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, DübendorfThe Brain Mind Institute (BMI) | EPFL, LausanneThe Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCI Lab) | Institute of Psychology | University of BaselThe Physics Department at the University of Geneva | CERNPaul Scherrer Institute PSI, VilligenCSEM Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, AlpnachNative Systems Group | Computer Systems Institute ETH ZurichIstituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA) | USI-SUPSI, Manno-LuganoArtificial Intelligence Laboratory | University of ZurichLife Sciences: Hina Strüver & Mätti WüthrichSylvia HostettlerClaudia TolussoPing QiuCognition & Physics: Luca ForcucciMonika CodoureyChristian GonzenbachRoman KellerComputing & Engineering: Pe LangChandrasekhar RamakrishnanAlina MnatsakanianPablo VenturaBiographies: Biographies of writers and artistsDVD and Analyses: Cinema Sociology | Marille HahneDVD | 12 documentaries about the artists-in-labs projects 2007-2009

Jill Scott was born in 1952, in Melbourne, Australia and has been working and living in Switzerland since 2003. Currently she is Professor for Research in the Institute Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK) in Zürich and Co-Director of the Artists-in-Labs Program (a collaboration with the Ministry for Culture, Switzerland) which places artists from all disciplines into physics, computer, engineering and life science labs to learn about scientific research and make creative interpretations. She is also Vice Director of the Z-Node PHD program on art and science at the University of Plymouth, UK-a program with 16 international research candidates. Her recent publications include: Artists-in-labs Processes of Inquiry: 2006 Springer/Vienna/New York, and Coded Characters Hatje Cantz 2002, Ed. Marille Hahne. Her education includes: PhD, University of Wales (UK) MA USF, San Francisco, as well as a Degree in Education (Uni Melbourne) and a Degree in Art and Design (Victoria College of the Arts). Since 1975, she has exhibited many video artworks, conceptual performances and interactive environments in USA, Japan, Australia and Europe. Her most recent works involve the construction of interactive media and electronic sculptures based on studies she has conducted in neuroscience- particularly the somatic sensory system artificial skin (e-skin) 2003-2007 and on neuro-rentinal behaviour in relation to human eye disease (The Electric Retina-2008) and on dermatome and skin behaviour in relation to the "skin" of the landscape and UV radiation (Dermaland- 2009).