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Research Faculty Current Endeavors
4. Art and Technology/Science The interdisciplinary nature of HTC connects students and faculty with colleagues throughout the Institute on the subject of art, technology, and science; Caroline Jones is directly involved with these exchanges. One of the centerpieces of Jones’ work is the cultural and social connections between art and science. Technology and industry, as the "footprints" of science in daily life, are the focus of her work on Frank Stella, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol and others in her book Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist, (1996/8) which received the Charles Eldredge Prize from the Smithsonian Institution. These interests also motivated individual essays on Francis Picabia, studio/laboratory/factory, and the impact of engineering structures on artists, as well as curatorial projects (such as Painting Machines and award-winning Sensorium for the List Visual Arts Center) and her co-edited volume with Peter Galison, Picturing Science, Producing Art (1998). Jones also participated in a Video Art show at the List, where her essay “Video Trajectories” was published in 2007. Recently joining the HTC faculty is Kristel Smentek, whose work on Enlightenment collectors includes research and scholarship into the “mysteries” of hard-paste porcelain production in European workshops and the development of color printmaking technologies; she has also examined issues of perception in the 18th century. David Friedman is a specialist in Renaissance urbanism with strong interests in the technology of design: measurement, surveying, drawing, setting out. Friedman's 2006 project for the Dibner Instute was the examination of incunabula on survey, military architecture, and other other subjects that included technical illustration. Mark Jarzombek’s interest in the intersection of architectural practice with science include an article “Money, Molecules, and Design” (Thresholds 18, Spring 1999) that reflects his ongoing interest in the science and rhetoric of “sustainable design.” Arindam Dutta has taught graduate seminars on the body and the machine in modern and postmodern culture and continues to be interested in theories of the cyborg (see Gender/Feminism). Much of Stanford Anderson's thought and work stems from an introduction by Paul Feyerabend to the thought of Karl Popper and Anderson's later associations with philosophy of science Imre Lakatos. Anderson’s studies of the work of Uruguayan design-build engineer Eladio Dieste explore the relations of engineering and architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2004).
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