Final white papers

Published June 18, 2012

Introduction The SEAD network is a community of advocates for the importance and value of research and creative work across the arts and sciences. There are two groups funded by NSF EAGER grants: NSEAD and XSEAD. SEAD was adopted to acknowledge that the two groups have linkages.

The White Papers project was proposed early on within the NSEAD group as a way to build community around perceived challenges and opportunities relative to engagaing art/design with engineering/science disciplines. The White Papers Working Group is conducting this research for the network going forward, to structure actions and make them relevant to stakeholders.

The papers posted here are the response to this open call from our global network. They represent a spectrum of interests in advocating for trans-disciplinarity between arts, sciences, and technologies. The call asked for authors to submit a plan of action and identify stakeholders who might be instrumental in carrying out such plans. The individual efforts do not represent a collective aim towards any explicit initiative. Rather, they offer a broad array of views on barriers faced and prospective solutions.

The SEAD White Papers project is not intended to offer direct proposals for funding, though some individual papers may do so. The SEAD network acknowledges that network funding should best be distributed across a range of stakeholders.

The White Papers project is not an effort to claim that art advances science or vice versa. Though individual authors may do so, the network is giving voice to opinions individually and collectively.

SEAD network, the White Papers Working Group, and the conversations enabled here should be acknowledged as different entities, and the objectives of SEAD not necessarily the same as that of individual suggested actions.

For more background on the organization of SEAD please see:http://sead.viz.tamu.edu/pdf/SEAD_Annual_Report_Summary_5_2012.pdf

This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No.1142510, Collaborative Research: EAGER: Network for Science, Engineering, Arts and Design (NSEAD) IIS, Human Centered Computing. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

(Re)Structuring Innovation: Community-Based Wet Labs for Art-Science Collaborations
Coordinators: Steven J. Barnes & Carlos Castellanos

Ex-Scribing The Choreographic Mind – Dance & Neuroscience In Collaboration
Coordinator: Glenna Batson

Transdisciplinarity: Challenges, Approaches And Opportunities At The Cusp Of History
Coordinators: Dr. Martha Blassnigg and Dr. Michael Punt

Gathering STEAM: Bridging The Arts And Sciences To Expand Public Interest In Science, Technology, Engineering, And Math
Coordinators: Marjory Blumenthal and Ken Goldberg

Creative Artificially-Intelligent Agents For The Arts: An Interdisciplinary Science-And-Arts Approach
Coordinator: Jonas Braasch

Using ‘Processing’ As A Stimulus For Producing STEAM
Coordinator: Ron Brown

A New Ecology Of Learning: Ecological Systems As Pedagogical Models
Coordinator: Pavel Cenkl

Science-Art Interactions In Asia With Particular Reference To India
Coordinator: Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa

Bridging The Divide: Collaboration, Communication And Education In Art And Science
Coordinator: Nathan Cohen

A Case Study in IP arising in Art/Science Performance Research and Transdisciplinary Collaboration
Coordinator: Josie E. Davis

From Workshop To Academic Laboratory, An Artistic Experience Of Transdisciplinarity
Coordinator: Jean Delsaux

Interdisciplinary Courses, Positions, PhD, In Italy
Coordinator: Michele Emmer