Artists-in-labs: Networking in the Margins

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 Zurich 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).

• Essays: Foreword | Sigrid Schade Introduction: Networking is both an art and a science! |Jill Scott Formative encounters: Laboratory life and artistic practice | Andrea Glauser On the nature of interactions | Lloyd Anderson Bacteria, robots and networks | Dominik Landwehr Artists-who-care! Shared perspectives on social and ethical responsibility | Jill Scott Art at the end of tunnel vision: A syncretic surmise |Roy Ascott Art and science research teams? Some arguments in favour of a culture of dissent | Nina Zschocke Case Studies: Think Art - Act Science: Meeting on an equal level | Irene Hediger National public support of trans-disciplinary projects | Aurelia Muller (Federal Office of Culture) Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ) | ETH Zurich Center for Integrative Genomics (CIG) | University of Lausanne WSL Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research, Bellinzona Eawag: The Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dubendorf The Brain Mind Institute (BMI) | EPFL, Lausanne The Human Computer Interaction Lab (HCI Lab) | Institute of Psychology | University of Basel The Physics Department at the University of Geneva | CERN Paul Scherrer Institute PSI, Villigen CSEM Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, Alpnach Native Systems Group | Computer Systems Institute ETH Zurich Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale (IDSIA) | USI-SUPSI, Manno-Lugano Artificial Intelligence Laboratory | University of Zurich Life Sciences: Hina Struver & Matti Wuthrich Sylvia Hostettler Claudia Tolusso Ping Qiu Cognition & Physics: Luca Forcucci Monika Codourey Christian Gonzenbach Roman Keller Computing & Engineering: Pe Lang Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan Alina Mnatsakanian Pablo Ventura Biographies: Biographies of writers and artists DVD and Analyses: Cinema Sociology | Marille Hahne DVD | 12 documentaries about the artists-in-labs projects 2007-2009