Open AccessArte, biología y tecnología. Relaciones interdisciplinares en el laboratorio científico
Author(s) -
Daniel López del Rincón
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
arte, individuo y sociedad
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.325
H-Index - 7
eISSN - 1698-0611
pISSN - 1131-5598
DOI - 10.5209/rev_aris.2016.v28.n2.48310
Subject(s) - impossibility , amateur , meaning (existential) , convergence (economics) , sociology , field (mathematics) , art , epistemology , philosophy , mathematics , history , political science , pure mathematics , law , economics , economic growth , archaeology
Bio art, understood as the convergence of the relations between art, biology and technology, constitutes a useful case study to discuss the meaning of interdisciplinarity in the artistic field. This paper explores different discourses around interdisciplinarity in order to challenge certain generic approaches for their ineffectiveness when assessing artistic practices. It is proposed that the analysis of interdisciplinarity must address the singular connections produced in the artistic practice itself, considering the impossibility of reducing the complexity of interdisciplinary dialogues into generic considerations. Taking bioart as a case study, different kinds of relationships between the artist and the lab are identified and analyzed, ranging from the use of the lab as a true atelier and as a resource for materials and techniques, to the rejection of the lab by proposing amateurism as an alternative