Nigel Helyer

This book explores collaboration between artists and scientists and examines the ways in which scientific data and research findings can be communicated, translated and transformed using the techniques of contemporary art and information technology. Contemporary art forms-including installation, sculpture, painting, computer-based art, Internet art and interactive electronic artworks-are able to provide new and creative outlets, with expanded audiences, for scientific research.

The book, which features 75 illustrations of works created as a result of art-science collaboration between scientists and artists, is important in the field because it presents a thorough account of the collaboration through the eyes of a leading creative practitioner and a leading cultural theorist. It contains a wide range of in-detail examples of successful collaborative works that illustrate the breadth and depth of contemporary interdisciplinary creative-research approaches.

Nigel Helyer is a contemporary polymath whose work links art and science in a strong embrace of the environment, identity and cultural history. He has an international reputation as a sculptor and sound-artist who creates large-scale public artworks; sound-sculptures; environmental projects and interactive installations that prompt the community to engage with their cultural histories, identity and sense of place; inviting us to examine the abstract conditions of our world and our complex relationships to it.

John Potts is a professor of media at Macquarie University, Australia. He is interested in culture and technology, digital media, media history, contemporary arts, and intellectual history. Prof. Potts has published more than 10 books, 15 book chapters, and 30 articles.