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, France

Guelfo 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: Positions

Chapter 1

Engaging Performative Contradiction: Introducing the rhetorics of practice and method to artist researchers

Mick Wilson

Chapter 2

Contemporary Art as a New Paradigm? An Artistic Revolution in Light of the History of Science

Nathalie Heinich

Chapter 3

Writing practices as experimental arenas at universities of the arts

Priska Gisler

Part II: Practices

Chapter 4

Material Play and Artistic Renderings: The Production of Essentially Useless Nanotechnology

Michael Lynch

Chapter 5

Probing the art/science binary: Notes on the experimental achievement of shared perception

Dirk vom Lehn

Chapter 6

From Heterogeneity to Hybridity? Working and Living in Arts-based Research

Bernhard Böhm

Chapter 7

Artworks in and as Practices: The Relevance of Particulars

Yaël Kreplak

Chapter 8

On the discrepancy between objects and things: An ecological approach

Fernando Domínguez Rubio

Part III: Implications

Chapter 9

Re-Programmed Art: Overcoming Obsolescence and Opening up Programmed and Kinetic Artworks

Serena Cangiano, Davide Fornari, Azalea Seratoni

Chapter 10

Back to the Future. Bogomir Ecker's Tropfsteinmaschine as a thought experiment in stone

Johanne Mohs

Chapter 11

Epistemics and Aesthetics of Experimentation: Towards a Hybrid Heuristics?

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger