Curation is a way of knowing. Curators work with objects and texts to offer perspectives on the world, situating not only things but also their contexts in material, rhetorical, and aesthetic forms. Curators cross disciplinary boundaries, challenge conventional narratives, and open space for new understandings. Their work shows how scientific and aesthetic knowledges are constructed, communicated, and experienced.
Nowhere are these challenges more visible than in art-science exhibitions. This volume explores how curators draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to synthesize subjects ranging from health complexity to nuclear energy, from communication technologies and computing histories to meat and eternal life. In doing so, they reveal the dynamic role of curatorship in shaping how we think, feel, and know.
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- Cover
- Contents
- Foreword: Eating Vegan Ortolan with Bruno Latour Michael John Gorman
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: What Do Curators Know? Hannah Star Rogers
- 1 Actor-Network Theory as Curatorial Method: An STS Framework for Transdisciplinary Curation Kristin D. Hussey
- 2 Engaged Curatorial Practice as STS-Oriented Mode of Inquiry Bilge Hasdemir
- 3 Beyond the Display: Why Minor Gestures Matter in Curating Research Exhibitions Anne Julie Arnfred
- 4 Boundaries and Imaginaries: STS and Curating Technoscientific Arts Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano
- 5 Curating Media as Scientific Objects Geoffrey Belknap and Georgina Grant
- 6 STS in Practice at the Computer History Museum Hansen Hsu
- 7 The Missing Museum: Curating the PostNatural Blindspot Richard Pell and Gil Oliveira
- 8 Curating Hinterland: Reassembling Invisible Work in Art/Science Practices Morten Søndergaard
- 9 Curating Health Complexity at Medical Museion: The Exhibition as Medium and Process for Sharing an STS Sensibility Adam Bencard and Louise Whiteley
- 10 Curating “from an STS Perspective”: Cocreator, Counter-Expert, and Collider Makoto Takahashi
- 11 Curating for Controversy: Crearation, Overidentification, Objektinstruments, and Pop Sloganeering as Art-Based Strategies for Critical Controversy Studies Sophia Efstathiou and Alexandra Murray-Leslie
- 12 Life Eternal: A Case of the Importance of Trusting Museum Visitors Clara Åhlvik
- 13 “Curating AI” or How to Exhibit a Controversy Chris Salter
- Index
- About the Editor
- About the Authors
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