Fruitful Misunderstandings: Artistic Research in Art/Science Within the Epistemological Turn
Fruitful Misunderstandings: Artistic Research in Art/Science Within the Epistemological Turn

Summary/Abstract: The current trend of increased mutual interest between the arts and the techno-sciences can be addressed as an ‘epistemological turn’ resulting in not only in the production of forms and narratives, but engagement in poetic and political alternative knowledge production, hands-on practices with media, materials, and matter. Instead of being satisfied with the gilded cage of metaphor and representation, symbolic intervention, formalistic evocations, or critique from a safe distance, the specific choice of their matter matters, thematically speaking, while their matters matter as well. Whereas the techno-sciences today have themselves become powerful producers of aestheticized images, techno-science related artistic strategies call for an analysis that is not based primarily on imagery, but on material media and epistemic connections. Phenomena that once assumed the form of artistic images are being translated, scattered, and fragmented into a variety of instances of mediality – they are not only means to an end, but fully integrated elements of the aesthetic object. However, these encounters and entanglements should not be seen as a new paradise of interdisciplinarity; they rather continuously provoke misunderstandings, which both actors and observers might indeed find fruitful within our world of hybrid causality, in which natural and cultural forces can no longer be distinguished.

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