Philippe Sormani is Board member of the Science and Technology Studies Lab at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland; and affiliated researcher at the Institut Marcel Mauss, EHESS, in Paris, FranceGuelfo Carbone holds a PhD in Philosophy and History of Philosophy (Sapienza University of Rome), and is a member of the Editorial Board of the philosophical Journal "Pólemos. Materiali di filosofia e critica sociale".Priska Gisler is head of the research cluster Intermediality at University of the Arts, Bern, Switzerland, and board member of the Swiss Artistic Research Network (SARN).

• Introduction: Experimenting with ‘Art/Science’?Guelfo Carbone, Priska Gisler, Philippe Sormani Part I: PositionsChapter 1Engaging Performative Contradiction: Introducing the rhetorics of practice and method to artist researchersMick WilsonChapter 2Contemporary Art as a New Paradigm? An Artistic Revolution in Light of the History of ScienceNathalie HeinichChapter 3Writing practices as experimental arenas at universities of the artsPriska GislerPart II: PracticesChapter 4Material Play and Artistic Renderings: The Production of Essentially Useless NanotechnologyMichael LynchChapter 5Probing the art/science binary: Notes on the experimental achievement of shared perceptionDirk vom LehnChapter 6From Heterogeneity to Hybridity? Working and Living in Arts-based ResearchBernhard BöhmChapter 7Artworks in and as Practices: The Relevance of ParticularsYaël KreplakChapter 8On the discrepancy between objects and things: An ecological approachFernando Domínguez RubioPart III: ImplicationsChapter 9Re-Programmed Art: Overcoming Obsolescence and Opening up Programmed and Kinetic ArtworksSerena Cangiano, Davide Fornari, Azalea SeratoniChapter 10Back to the Future. Bogomir Ecker’s Tropfsteinmaschine as a thought experiment in stoneJohanne MohsChapter 11Epistemics and Aesthetics of Experimentation: Towards a Hybrid Heuristics?Hans-Jörg Rheinberger

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