Creating ArtScience Collaboration: Bringing Value to Organizations (Palgrave Studies in Business, Arts and Humanities)

How can artist-scientist collaboration be of value to science and technology organizations? This innovative book is one of the first to address this question and the emerging field of art-science collaboration through an organizational and managerial lens.

With extensive experience collaborating with and advising institutions to develop artist in residency programs, the author highlights how art-science collaboration is such a powerful opportunity for forward-thinking consultants, managers and institutions. Using real-life examples alongside cutting edge research, this book presents a number of cases where these interactions have fostered creativity and led to heightened innovation and value for organizations. As well as creating a blueprint for successful partnerships it provides insights into the managerial and practical issues when creating art-science programs. Invaluable to scholars and practitioners interested in the potential of art-science collaboration, the reader will be shown how to take an innovative approach to creativity in their organization or research, and the ways in which art-science collaborations can mutually benefit artists, scientists and companies alike.

Claudia Schnugg is a researcher and advocate of artscience collaboration, and a producer and curator of residency programs. She has been the catalyst for numerous artscience projects. She is also Creative Director of Science Gallery Venice, and was previously Assistant Professor at the Johannes Kepler University and Visiting Researcher at Copenhagen Business School, the Art|Sci Center at UCLA, and ESO, Chile. She headed the Ars Electronica Residency Network from 2014 to 2016. This book was written during her time as an independent researcher and curator at the intersection of art with science, technology, and business.