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What Curators Know

Art and Science in the Museum

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What Curators Know

Art and Science in the Museum

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Curation is a way of knowing. Curators work with objects and texts to offer perspectives on the world, situating not only things but also their contexts in material, rhetorical, and aesthetic forms. Curators cross disciplinary boundaries, challenge conventional narratives, and open space for new understandings. Their work shows how scientific and aesthetic knowledges are constructed, communicated, and experienced.
Nowhere are these challenges more visible than in art-science exhibitions. This volume explores how curators draw on Science and Technology Studies (STS) to synthesize subjects ranging from health complexity to nuclear energy, from communication technologies and computing histories to meat and eternal life. In doing so, they reveal the dynamic role of curatorship in shaping how we think, feel, and know.

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Table of Contents

Preface
Foreword: Eating Vegan Ortolan with Bruno Latour
Michael John Gorman
Acknowledgements
Introduction: What Do Curators Know?
Hannah Star Rogers
Chapter 1: Actor-Network-Theory as Curatorial Method: An STS Framework for Trans-Disciplinary Curation
Kristin D. Hussey
Chapter 2: Engaged Curatorial Practice as STS-Oriented Mode of Inquiry
Bilge Hasdemir
Chapter 3: Beyond the Display: Why Minor Gestures Matter in Curating Research Exhibitions Anne Julie Arnfred
Chapter 4: Boundaries and Imaginaries: STS and Curating Technoscientific Arts
Rodrigo Guzman-Serrano
Chapter 5: Curating Media as Scientific Objects
Geoffrey Belknap and Georgina Grant
Chapter 6: STS in Practice at the Computer History Museum
Hansen Hsu
Chapter 7: The Missing Museum: Curating the PostNatural Blindspot
Rich Pell and Gil Olivera
Chapter 8: Curating Hinterland: Reassembling Invisible Work in Art / Science Practices
Morten Søndergaard
Chapter 9: Curating Health Complexity at Medical Museion: The Exhibition as Medium and Process for Sharing an STS Sensibility
Louise Whiteley and Adam Bencard
Chapter 10: Curating “from an STS Perspective”: Co-Creator, Counter-Expert, and Collider
Makoto Takahashi
Chapter 11: Curating for Controversy: Crearation, Overidentification, Objektinstruments and Pop Sloganeering as Art-Based Strategies for Critical Controversy Studies
Sophia Efstathiou and Alexandra Murray-Leslie
Chapter 12: Life Eternal: A Case of the Importance of Trusting Museum Visitors
Clara Åhlvik
Chapter 13: “Curating AI” or How to Exhibit a Controversy
Chris Salter
Index
About the Editor
About the Authors

Product details

Bloomsbury Academic Test
Published 09 Jul 2026
Format Ebook (PDF)
Edition 1st
Pages 488
ISBN 9798765156582
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Illustrations 33 bw illustrations; 2 tables
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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