Modes of Collaboration between the Arts and Sciences

Many arts universities are currently exploring the capacities of the arts and sciences as well as their interdependencies. While their specialist competencies enable synergetic collaboration, they also reveal the differences and similarities between the respective research cultures and their particular procedures, methods, and principles.

The conference seeks to initiate a debate on such collaboration in artistic research by investigating several potential modes of teamwork. Core conference themes include modes of communication, the development of transdisciplinary procedures, and the cognitive interests implicit in such collaborative constellations. Which special or added value emerges from cooperations between artists and scientists? The conference thus attempts to identify the potential of artistic research for successful collaboration between the arts and sciences.

Conference leader: Prof. Dr. Corina Caduff, Cultural Studies Scholar at ZHdK

Conference venue: Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Vortragssaal, Ausstellungsstr. 60, Zürich

Programme

12.15 Reception, Coffee
13.00 Conference Welcome: Thomas D. Meier, President, University of the Arts Zurich (ZHdK)

13.15-14.00 Martin Tröndle, Zeppelin Universität Friedrichshafen
The Entanglement of Arts and Sciences: On the Transaction Costs of Transdisciplinary Research Settings

14.00-14.45 Germán Toro-Pérez, ZHdK
Composer and Researcher: the Link between Artistic and Scientific Practice in Electroacoustic Music

Chair: Corina Caduff, ZHdK
14.45-15.15 Coffee
15.15-16.15 Katarina Elam, Anna Petronella Fredlund, Cecilia Roos, Cecilia Sjöholm, University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm
Perspectives in Co-operation: Dance, Artistic Research and the Humanities
Chair: Anton Rey, ZHdK
16.15-17.45 3 Workshops:
16.15-17.45 Raum 502 Nils Röller, ZHdK
Indirect Experiences

16.15-17.45 Raum 504 Nicola Müllerschön, University of Zurich, and Hannes Rickli, ZHdK
The Pictorial Worlds of Biological Experimentation as an Object of Art and Theory

16.15-17.45 Vortragssaal Florian Dombois, Bern University of the Arts (HKB)
Cross-Examination - Sonification Linking Scientific and Artistic Practices

17.45-18.45 Apéro
During the Apéro: Julia Bihl, ZHdK
"Der Zuspieler" - Children's Perception of Theater. A Performative Installation

18.45-20.00 Corina Caduff (Zurich), Efva Lilja (Stockholm), Claudia Mareis (Berne), Germán Toro-Pérez (Zurich)
Arts in Collaboration - a Transdisciplinary Perspective. Panel Discussion
Chair: Michael Schwab (London)
20.30 Dinner

Registration: modes.collaborationzhdk.ch. Registration is free of charge but compulsory.

Under the Auspices of ELIA (The European League of Institutes of the Arts)
Supported by the SNCF (Swiss National Science Foundation)

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