Why create SciArt? An investigation into science artists' goals and professional journeys

Fleerackers, Alice; Jarreau, Paige Brown; Krolik, Julia

doi:10.22323/2.21060205

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“…Informed by research on the meeting between science and art [e.g. Davies, 2019;de Hosson et al, 2018;Dowell & Weitkamp, 2012;Fleerackers, Jarreau & Krolik, 2022;McNiff, 2007], as well as calls for 'writing differently' [e.g. Grafström & Jonsson, 2020;Grey & Sinclair, 2006;Pollock & Bono, 2013;Pullen, Helin & Harding, 2020] we were interested in engaging in, and at the same time investigating, how comics could be used when communicating science.…”

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“…The many different attempts for how to engage in various creative and artistic collaborations between science and art needs to be complexified, multifaceted and peerified -as communicating science per see is a performative act -as well as communicated trough a science-art lens [cf. Davies et al, 2021;Fleerackers et al, 2022].…”

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Communicating science through competing logics and a science-art lens

Jönsson¹,

Brechensbauer²,

Grafström³

2022

JCOM

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This essay takes a starting point in the well-known tension between the media logic and the scientific logic and the challenges when communicating science in a mediatized society. Building on the experience of engaging in research comics, both as a method for communicating science and a creative example of a meeting between science and art, we introduce a framework — a pedagogical tool — for how science communication can be understood through the two competing logics. We contribute to literature about the balancing act of being a ‘legitimate expert’ and a ‘visible scientist’, and suggest that the meeting between science and art can be understood as a lens for how to communicate science that goes beyond the deficit model.

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Section: Concluding Remarks: the Visible Expertmentioning

confidence: 99%

Communicating science through competing logics and a science-art lens

Jönsson¹,

Brechensbauer²,

Grafström³

2022

JCOM

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“…Being visually stimulating, the arts are (becoming) a favoured medium for communicating science with publics [Schwartz, 2014]. Art inspires action, for example on environmental issues, and deepens engagement [Lesen, Rogan & Blum, 2016; see also Fleerackers, Brown Jarreau & Krolik, 2022]. Research on the power of art in climate change discourses thus highlights its ability to foster agency and inspire hope, responsibility and care to create openness beyond the human world and to raise awareness and creativity for tackling complex environmental problems [Bentz, 2020].…”

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Street art as a vehicle for environmental science communication

Thompson,

Jürgens,

None

et al. 2023

Journal of Science Communication

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Street art is visual art in public spaces — public art — created for public visibility. Street art addresses a massive and extremely diverse audience: everyone in a city. Using a case study approach, this article explores: 1) the extent to which science-inspired environmental street art can be considered a vehicle for science communication in less tangible science contexts and institutional settings — on the street — and 2) the strategies that street artists deploy to communicate their environmental messages through large-scale painted murals. This article clarifies how street art can be understood as a means of creative grassroots environmental communication. It shows that, and how, street art can encourage agency in pro-environmentalism and help to develop our relationship with sustainability.

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