Governing artistic innovation: An interface among art, science and industry

Leonardo

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 489-492

  Fourmentraux, Jean Paul ^a  

^a ÉCOLE DES HAUTES ÉTUDES EN SCIENCES SOCIALES   (France)

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EID: 51249143616     PISSN: 0024094X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/leon.2007.40.5.489     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Numerous authors have discussed the stakes of recent policies of economic revitalization, both urban and. social, based on the promotion of an innovation brought forth by a "creative class" within which the artist now occupies a highly prized position. See A. Pratt, Digital Place (London; London School of Economics, 1999)
2. R. Caves, Creative Industries: Contracts between Art and Commerce (Cambridge, MA.: Harvard. Univ. Press, 2000)
3. R. Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community and Everyday Life (New York: Basic Books, 2002)
4. See J. Adler, Artists in Offices (New Brunswick, Canada: Transaction, 1978)
5. P.-M. Menger, Les laboratoires de la creation musicale (Paris: La Documentation française, 1989)
6. E. Chiapello, Artistes versus managers. Le management culturel face à la critique artiste (Paris: Métailie, 1998)
7. J.-P. Fourmentraux, "Internet Artworks, Artists and Computer Programmers: Sharing the Creative Process," Leonardo 39, No. 1, 44-50 (2006)
8. J-P. Fourmentraux, Art et Internet. Les nouvelles figures de la creation (CNRS Editions, 2005)
9. See, for example, W.J. Mitchell, A.S. Inouye and M.S. Blunienthal, eds., Beyond Productivity: Information Technology, Innovation, and Creativity (Washington, D.C.: National Academies Press, 2003)
10. M.-R. Jackson, Investing in Creativity: A Study of the Support Structure for U.S. Artists (New York: Culture, Creativity & Communities Program, Urban Institute, 2003)
11. P. Jennings, New Media Arts, New Funding Models, report prepared for Creativity & Culture, The Rockefeller Foundation (New York, 2003)
12. See also E.A. Shanken's dossier "Artists in Industry and the Academy," Leonardo 38, No. 4, 277-316 (2005)
13. Valorisation Recherche Québec (VRQ), , 1999-2005
14. La Fondation Canadienne pour l' Innovation (FCI) 1997-2005
15. See J. Fujimura, "Crafting Science: Standardized Packages, Boundary Objects, and Translation," in W. Bijker, T. Hughes and. T. Pinch, eds., The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990)
16. S.L. Star and j. Griesemer, "Institutional. Ecology, Translation, and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology," Social Studies of Science 19 (1989) pp. 387-420
17. These virtual actors all have attributes (skeleton, coordinate grid for textures, etc.) in order for a 3D artist to animate them in the software of his or her choice through the fbx format developed by Kaydara or through an interactive system. For a more detailed description of this Hexagram project connecting research in design and the development of computer applications, see M. Fleury, "Le projet Darwin. Développement d' une humanité virtuelle," proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia, "Hybrid Reality: Art, Technology and the Human Factor," Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 15-17 October 2003, pp. 610-621