Hannah Star Rogers researches the knowledge categories of art and science using STS methods. Her scholarship extends into the areas of interdisciplinary communication, experiential learning, and material methods pedagogy. Rogers’ articles have appeared in Leonardo, Configurations, Technology’s Stories, Art Journal Open, Science, Technology and the Humanities, CLOT, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Books
Art, Science, and the Politics of Knowledge
MIT Press, May 2022
Reviewed by Andrew Karvonen for LSE, January 2024.
Reviewed by Lissette Lorenz for the AM Journal of Art + Media Studies, April 2023.
Reviewed by Jacob Thompson-Bell for Leonardo, November 2022.
Interview with Mark Lynch for NPR affiliate WINC, September 2022.
The Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies
Edited by Hannah Star Rogers, Dehlia Hannah, Megan K. Halpern, and Kathryn de Ridder-Vignone, Routledge, December 2021 (hardcover), September 2023 (paperback)
Interview with the editors, Shiv Issar for Backchannels (4S), June 2022.
Reviewed by Régine Debatty for We Make Money Not Art, May 2022.
Reviewed by Frances Sacks for the New Books Network, April 2022.
Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures
With John Godwin, Fred Gould, Roger Manley, Todd Kuiken, William Myers, Molly Renda, and Megan Serr, NC State University Libraries, 2019
Academic Publications
“Art, Science, and Technology Studies: Four Approaches” with Kristin Diana Hussey, Louise Whiteley, Adam Bencard, Christopher Gad, and Eduardo Abrantes, STS Encounters 15, no. 1 (Fall 2023)
“Metabolism and Art” with Adam Bencard, Leonardo (MIT Press)56, no. 4 (2023): 388-390
“Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures” Leonardo (MIT Press) 55, no. 1 (2022)
“Gallery: Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures”
Leonardo Volume 55, Issue 1 February 2022. MIT Press.
“Review of A Bestiary of the Anthropocene: Hybrid Plants, Animals, Minerals, Fungi, and Other Specimens” with Hiram Harmon Rogers, ed. by Nicolas Nova. Configurations, Volume 30, No. 2, 2022, p. 238-241. Johns Hopkins Press.
“The Artist in the Archive: The Art-Science Discoveries of Kirsten Stolle“
Only You Can Prevent A Forest. The Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art at the College of Charleston, 2022.
“Art-science Collaborations, Complexities and Challenges,” with Megan K. Halpern
In Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology, eds. Massimiano Bucchi and Brian Trench (Routledge, 2021).
“Otherwise Ways of Knowing Art and Biology in the work of Laura Splan”
Entangled Entities. The New Gallery: Austin Peay State University. 2021.
“STS by Material Means: Art Critiquing Science”
In Dialogues Between Artistic Research and Science and Technology Studies, eds. Henk Borgdorff, Peter Peters, and Trevor Pinch (New York: Routledge, 2020).
“Curating Art and Science: Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology”
Engineering Life, University of Edinburgh, Spring 2019.
“The Specimen Paintings of Ceil Horowitz”
SciArt Initiative (December 2019).
“The Umwelts of Art and Science: Complexity, Collaboration, and Community Inquiry in the Works of Meredith Tromble, Patricia Olynyk, and Christine Davis ”
BioBat Art Space (August 13, 2019).
“Field_Notes: Amalgams at Field_Notes”
Art Journal Open (July 23, 2019)
“Notes on Field_Notes: Expanding the Possibilities of Bioart”
Art Journal Open (April 8, 2019)
“Curating Art and Science: Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology”
Engineering Life (March 25, 2019)
“Curating Art, Science, and Technology”
Technology’s Stories: Society for the History of Technology (December 20, 2018)
“Observing Artists in the Field: Ecologies of Senses”
With Bilge Hasdemir. CLOT Magazine (December 7, 2018).
“Shadows and Ashes: The Peril of Nuclear Weapons”
Backchannels: Society for Social Studies of Science (October 15, 2018).
Shadows and Ashes catalog (September 2018)
“Erich Berger: Field Notes Explores Spaces of Possibilities on Lapland”
Medialab.MAKERY (April 23, 2018).
“Cheering Artificial Intelligence Leader: Creative Writing and Materializing Design Fiction”
Leonardo (November 30, 2017), 1-8.
“Intersecting Art and Science: Curation, Curriculum, and Collaboration”
Art History, Pedagogy, and Practice (September 2017).
“EVENT: Everyday Cyborgs and Humanimals; Triple Short Screening in Edinburgh”
SciArt Magazine (November 2017).
“Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures”
SciArt Magazine (August 2017).
“Poetry and Science”
Leonardo Gallery: Scientific Delirium Madness 3.0
Leonardo 50:3 (June 2017): 236-245.
Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds
Edited by David H. Guston, Ed Finn, and Jason Scott Robert (The MIT Press 2017)
Contributor
“Para-artistic Ethnography – or, Becoming a Spy in Lapland”
Co-authored with Lea Schick, Changing Weathers, Spring 2017.
http://www.changingweathers.net/en/book/50/para-artistic-ethnography-or-becoming-a-spy-in-lapland
Robot Spirit Engine
Editor; commissioned and publicly solicited “Cheers for the Future;” collection includes poetry, flash fiction, and traditional squad cheers; Four Chambers Press, August 2016.
“Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott”
Photomediations Machine, Spring 2015. http://photomediationsmachine.net/2015/03/24/making-science-visible-the-photography-of-berenice-abbott/
Translated for Circuloa, Spring 2016. http://www.circuloa.com/haciendo-visible-la-ciencia-la-fotografia-de-berenice-abbott-por-hannah-star-rogers/
“Inseparable Impulses: Science and Aesthetics, Ernst Haeckel and Charley Harper”
With Megan Halpern, Leonardo Spring 2013. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/521209
“Amateur Knowledge: Public Art and Citizen Science”
Configurations 19, no. 1. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/toc/con.19.1.html
“Art or Science? The Practices of Tactical Media”
In Science, Technology and the Humanities. Ed. Lisa M. Dolling. Stevens Institute of Technology, Fall 2011.
Exhibitions
Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Critical Methods for Collective Experiments
Curator and Director of Programming, University of Pittsburgh, May 2020- December 2021
Art’s Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures
Curator, Gregg Museum of Art and Design, NCMA, NC State Library Gallery, and the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM), Raleigh, NC, October 2019-March 2020
Shadows and Ashes: The Peril of Nuclear Weapons
Curator, Cornell University Traveling Site, originating exhibition at Princeton University
Fall 2018
Poetry Post Office
Curator, Interactive Public Poetry Installation, Djerassi Open Studios, July 2016
Emerge: Artists and Scientists Redesign the Future
Curator of interactive exhibits on artificial Intelligence, climate change, and digital games of the future, Arizona State University, April 29, 2016
Experiments In (and Out of) the Studio
Curator, Workshop Organizer, 4S, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 12, 2012
Photographing Physics: The Art of the Scientific Image
Program Director, two full-day workshops on STEAM, collaboration between Fralin Museum of Art and School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia, November 2012, March 2013
Making Science Visible: The Photography of Berenice Abbott
Curator, with Worthy Martin, Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, August-December 2012
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