Weird Science: A Conflatation of Art and Science
ISBN: , SKU: , AUTHOR: Hofmann, Irene / Grabner, Michelle / Wittkopp, Gregory, PUBLISHER: Cranbrook Art Museum, Art meets science -- and engages ong>theong> recent controversies of science studies -- in work by contemporary artists Mark Dion, Gregory Green, Margaret Honda, and Andrea Zittel. Using scientific language, strategies and protocols, each of ong>theong>se projects focuses on a different area of exploration (natural science, nuclear physics, zoology, and genetic engineering), and investigates ong>theong> influence, authority, and effects of science. David Wilson, Director of ong>theong> Museum of Jurassic Technology, writes on ong>theong> 17th century scholar, inventor, curator, and early progenitor of 'weird science', Athanasius Kircher; exhibition curator Irene Hofmann places ong>theong>se works into ong>theong> context of each artist's career.