“From Blaschka to bioart, Rogers provides original and fascinating insight into the commonalities, intersections, and power dynamics between art and science, demonstrating the ways that STS can probe the communities and methods of both.”
Pamela Smith, Seth Low Professor of History, Columbia University; author of The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution
“Hannah Star Rogers shines light on the intersection of art and science in a real-world context. With a curator's eye versed in science and technology studies, she opens with a fresh, site- and display-specific inquiry into Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka's astonishing glass models. Berenice Abbott is a key transitional figure, as Rogers moves forward to contemporary installations, film, and performance. A fine new inquiry into the now vibrant art-science world."
Peter Galison, Joseph Pellegrino University Professor and Director, Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University
“Rogers artfully troubles categories of art/science and lines drawn between artists/scientists. Her ASTS project encourages us to take heed of varied and intricate knowledge-making practices in our own efforts to explore new ways of world-making.”
Deboleena Roy, Professor of Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Emory University; author of Molecular Feminisms
“Hannah Rogers captures, with insight and hindsight, the emerging areas of art-science collaboration and practices. With a strong documentation of the bio-arts, Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge also brings foresight to the post-pandemic world and lays a foundation for future art and STS practices. Sciences and technologies cannot win future wars alone, but will require investments in art-science and other mechanisms for cultural change.”
Roger F. Malina, Executive Editor, Leonardo/ISAST Publications (MIT Press); Director of the ArtSciLab, University of Texas at Dallas
“An engaging, accessible, and thought-provoking study of the myriad ways in which art and science intersect, interact, and combine.”
Leonardo
“Hannah Star Rogers' Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge serves as a key foundational text for the emerging subdiscipline of art, science, and technology studies (ASTS), also known as art-science.”
AM Journal of Art and Media Studies
“In Art, Science and the Politics of Knowledge, Hannah Star Rogers challenges the traditional dichotomy between art and science, arguing that they share common approaches to knowledge-making. Drawing on Science and Technology Studies and using compelling examples, Star Rogers illuminates the overlapping characteristics – such as emphases on visualisation, enquiry and experimentation – of the two knowledge domains.”
LSE Review of Books
