{"id":1997,"date":"2017-02-16T09:04:08","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T09:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2017-02-17T11:21:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-17T11:21:13","slug":"22-february-2017-seminar-on-art-science-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.plymouth.ac.uk\/artsinstitute\/2017\/02\/16\/22-february-2017-seminar-on-art-science-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"22 February 2017: Seminar on Art, Science & Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
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ART, SCIENCE AND AGENCY<\/b><\/div>\n
A presentation by Professor Andrew Pickering, followed by discussion<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
Wednesday 22nd February 2017 at 4.00 \u2013\u00a06.00 <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n
In Scott Building 109, University of Plymouth<\/span><\/div>\n

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Andrew Pickering’s early work was in theoretical particle physics, but in the late 1970s he joined the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh and moved into science and technology studies\u2014STS. He taught for many years at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before returning to England in 2007 and joining the University of Exeter, where he is now emeritus professor of sociology and philosophy.<\/div>\n
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His books include Constructing Quarks: A Sociological History of Particle Physics<\/i>, The Mangle of Practice: Time, Agency and Science<\/i> and, most recently, The Cybernetic Brain: Sketches of Another Future<\/i>. His work in STS explores a shift from thinking of science as a body of representations of nature to thinking of it as emerging in action, agency and performance in a lively material world.<\/div>\n
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This talk sketches out the overall form of the analysis and extends it to the arts\u2014especially artworks that somehow thematise questions of agency, rather than obscuring them, as modern science does\u2014and to experimentality as a zone of intersection of art, science and engineering.<\/div>\n
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Please note: <\/b>Professor Pickering has sent two recent papers for\u00a0pre circulation. Please read these prior to the seminar.<\/b><\/div>\n
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1) \u2018Art, Science and Experiment,\u2019 MaHKUscript: Journal of Fine Art\u00a0Research<\/em>, 1 (1): 2, pp. 1\u20136, DOI:\u00a0http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.5334\/mjfar.2<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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2)’Ontological Politics: Realism and Agency in Science, Technology and\u00a0Art,’ Insights<\/em>, 4 (9), 2012:\u00a0www.dur.ac.uk\/resources\/ias\/insights\/Pickering30Jan.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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