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Research and Creative Work
The Research and Creative Work component of SEAD addresses the need to raise awareness of the impacts, values, opportunities and challenges of cross-disciplinary engagement.

In 2012, the White Papers Working Group issued an open call for White Papers, that resulted in a synthesis report freely available from MIT Press. The compendium takes the form similar to the 2003 publication "Beyond Productivity: Information, Technology, Innovation, and Creativity," edited by William J. Mitchell, Alan S. Inouye, and Marjory S. Blumenthal, Committee on Information Technology and Creativity, National Research Council. White papers have been presented at two international conferences and published online. The group also developed a bibliography of SEAD related, third party white papers for a meta-view of needs, opportunities and recommendations.


White Papers Featured in XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, July, 2014, Yokohama, Japan
"Fostering Trans-Disciplinarity amongst the Social and Natural Sciences, Engineering, Arts and Design"
Many thanks to Cristina Miranda for leading this session.

SEAD White Papers author presentations:

Josie E. Davis, USA. “A Case Study in IP Arising in Art/Science Performance Research and Transdisciplinary sCollaboration”

Kathryn Evans, USA. “Bridging the Silos: Curriculum Development in the Arts, Sciences and Humanities”

D. L. Marrin, Mexico. “Interactions among Scientists/Engineers and Artists/Designers in Developing a Common Language and Unique Perspectives on Today’s Challenges”

Cristina Miranda de Almeida and Benjamin Tejerina, Spain. “Exploring a Model of Transdisciplinary Research Collaboration Based on Collective Action Theories”

Jack Ox and Richard Lowenberg, USA. “SARC (Scientists/Artists Research Collaborations)”

Myriam Solar, Spain. “Complexity Art: A Pattern of Transdisciplinary Emergent Properties”

Deborah Tatar, USA. “Gender and STEM: No Shift Required”

Dachen KANG & Qian SUN, China; Title: Understanding Science Revolution through a Trinity Model


SEAD White Papers at RENEW, Media Art Histories
October 2013, Riga
"Paradigm Shifts in art/science education and practice" was Chaired by White Papers Steering Committee
member Nina Czegledy with Oliver Grau and others. Read more...


Research and Creative work: Draft White Papers Report
In 2013, the White Papers Working Group completed an analysis of all White Papers to inform future SEAD network planning. We welcome you to read and comment on the analysis on the SEAD blog.
Download Volume I, Report Synthesis, and Volume II, Meta-analyses, abstracts, and White Papers
The complete report is also freely accessible on the Texas A&M Digital Portal.


White Paper abstracts

Final White papers


White Papers Working Group

Chair:
Roger Malina
Distinguished Professor, Arts & Technology, University of Texas, Dallas; Professor, Aix Marseille University; Leonardo/ISAST Chair Emeritus; Leonardo Governing Board

Co-Chair:
Carol Strohecker
SEAD Co-PI; formerly Director, Center for Design Innovation, University of North Carolina system; currently Vice Provost, Academic Affairs, Rhode Island School of Design

Managing Editor:
Amy Ione

Steering Committee:

Marjory Blumenthal
Executive Director, PCAST, Office of Science and Technology Policy, The White House

Jonas Braasch
XSEAD Co-PI, Assistant Professor, School of Architecture, Communication Acoustics and Aural Architecture Research Laboratory (CA3RL), School of Architecture, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York

Shawn Brixey
XSEAD Co-PI, Faculty of Fine Arts, York University, Toronto 

Donna Cox
XSEAD Co-PI, Professor, The National Center for Supercomputing Applications(NCSA), located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Director, Illinois eDREAM Institute

Christo Doherty
Head of Digital Arts, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Bronac Ferran
Founder of Boundaryobject.org

Ken Goldberg
Professor, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research jointly with Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; School of Information, University of California, Berkeley

Christian Jacquemin
Head of La Diagonale

Adriene Jenik
XSEAD advisor, Professor and Director, School of Art, Katherine K. Herberger Endowed Chair in Fine Arts, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University

Arantxa Mendiharat
Coordinator of Conexiones Improbables, Bilbao, Spain

Pamela Jennings
Director, Brenda and Earl Shapiro Centers for Research and Collaboration; School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Director, Center for Design Innovation, University of North Carolina system

Gunalan Nadarajan
Dean and Professor, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan

Oguzhan Ozcan
Professor, Interactive Media Design, Department of Media and Visual Arts Design Lab, Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey

Claudio Rivera-Sequel
Co-founder and director of the “Corporación Cultural Arte & Tecnología” (ArTeK), a Chilean Cultural NGO

Sundar Sarukkai
Professor and Director, Manipal Centre for Philosophy and Humanities, Manipal
University, India

Vicki Sowry
Program Manager, Australian Network for Art and Technology

Nicola Triscott
Founder and Director of The Arts Catalyst, UK

Annie Wan
Ph.D., Center For Digital Arts & Experiment Media (DXARTS), University of Washington, Seattle, US

Meta-analyses
Gabriel Harp, US; François-Joseph Lapointe, CA; Cristina Miranda de Almeida, ES; Jonathan Zilberg, US.

White Papers Coordinators and Authors of White Papers
Irene Agrivina, ID; Krisanne Baker, US; Steven J. Barnes, CA; Saulo Faria Almeida Barretto, BR; Glenna Batson, US; Dr. Martha Blassnigg, UK; Marjory Blumenthal, US; Jonas Braasch, US; Shawn Brixey, US, CA; Ron Brown, US; Carlos Castellanos, Canada/US; Pavel Cenki, US; Krishna Kumari Challa, India; Nathan Cohen, UK; Sean Cubitt, UK; Carol Davis, US; Josie E. Davis, US; Cristina Miranda de Almeida, ES; Jean Delsaux, FR; Michele Emmer, IT; Georg Essl, US; Kathryn C. Evans, US; Jill Fantauzzacoffin, US; Bronac Ferran, UK; Paul Fishwick, US; Felipe Fonseca, BR; Chris Fremantle, UK; Marc Garrett, UK; Ken Goldberg, US; Oliver Grau, AT; Scot Gresham-Lancaster, US; Molly Hankwitz, US; Ross Harley, AU; Christian Jacquemin, FR; Anu Joy, IN; Denisa Kera, SG; Kanta Kochhar-Lindgren, Ph.D., US; Sarah Kuhn, US; François-Joseph Lapointe, CA; Richard Lowenberg, US; Roger Malina, US, FR; D.L. West Marrin, MX; David F. Maulen, CL; Isabel Meirelles, US; Dr. Jerome Morris, US; Philip Nadasdy, US; Alok Nandi, BE; Jennifer Kanary Nikolov(a), NL; Sile O’Modhrain, US; Cris Orfescu, RO, US; Jack Ox, US; Oguzhan Ozcan, TR; Juan Pampin, US; Jennifer Parker, US; Miklós Peternák, HU; Audrey Pic, FR; Lucinda Presley, US; Dr. Michael Punt, UK; Joan Quintana, US; Robert Root-Bernstein, US; Sherryl Ryan, AU; Sundar Sarrukkai, IN; Dr. Alan Shaw, US; Andreas Siagian, ID; Todd Siler, US; Myriam Solar, ES; Sharada Srinivasan, IN; Carol Strohecker, US; Deborah Tatar, US; Benjamin Tejerina, ES; Robert Thill, US; Eugenio Tisseli, TZ; Meredith Tromble, US; Yu-Chuan Tseng, TW; Cynthia L. Wagoner, Ph.D., US; Annie Wan, CN; Ruth West, US; Roy Williams, UK; Dr. Jonathan Zilberg, US; Dr. Ionat Zurr, AU.

White Papers Advisors
David Bates, US; Dr. Jan Baetens, BE; Maira Begalli, BR; Jesus Beltran, US; Selmer Bringsjord, US; Karla Brunet, BR; Oron Catts, AU; Nina Czegledy, CA, HU; Vincentius ‘Venzha’ Christiawan, ID; Yasodara Córdova, BR; James Coupe, US; Megan May Daalder, US; Christo Doherty, ZA; Anna Dumitriu, UK; Marc R Dusseiller, CH; Lucas Evers, NL; Luciana Fleischmann, BR; Christian Jacquemin, FR; Bruno Giorgini, IT; Johannes Goebel, US; Rob Gorbet, US; Simone Gumtau, UK; Rick Hall, US; Molly Hankwitz, US; Mara Haseltine, US; Deanna Herst, NL; Jon Ippolito, US; Antoanetta Ivanova, AU, TW; Pamela Jennings, US; Amy Marlene Keough, US; Dr. Barry Kitto, US; Rikke Schmidt Kjærgaard, DK; Kaisu Koski, FI; Ted Krueger, US; Rex LaMore, US; James Lawton, US; Pamela Longobardi, US; Jenny Mackness, UK; Marina McDougall, US; Sarah McMenamin, US; Arantxa Mendiharat, ES; Mark-Paul Meyer, NL; Miriah Meyer, US; Miriah Meyer, US; Carlos Mora, MX; Gunalan Nadarajan, US; Pauline Oliveros, US; Oguzhan Ozcan, TR; Geoffrey Alan Ozin, DE; Christine Paul, US; Amber Peruski, US; Renata Piazzalunga, BR; Jose Quintana, US; Eileen Roraback, US; Michele Root-Bernstein, US; Sundar Sarrukkai, IN; Susan Schwartzenberg, US; John Schweitzer, US; Linda Scott, US; Eddie Shanken, US; Gregory Shinn, US; Orlando Silva, BR; Vicki Sowry, AU; Wendy Silk, US; Paul Thomas, AU; Robert Thill, US; D. Urquhart, UK; Megan VanDyke, US; Victoria Vesna, US; Frederik De Wilde, BE; Robin Wilkins, US; Bang Wong, US; Martin Zierold, DE; Robert Zwijnenberg, NL.