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Socio-technical graph, Vienna, 2001,
oil on canvas &
1456 footprints of „the public“
Interim report for the Ministry of Science
Vienna, 2001
The LabExit, Vienna, 2001
When we experimented with the question of how to „describe“ a scientific project we had not illustrative aspects but rather B. Latour‘s "Aramis or the Love of Technology" in mind where he mentions a few options (and plays with them) how to approach a scientific project.
It is not a question of using old or new media to depict scientific facts. In fact, it is important, as he puts it, to decide if a scientific project should be described, for instance, as "realistic" (i.e., to say "how it is" and to rely on the scientist's account. Or, alternatively, to give a fictional account by saying "how it could be." Furthermore, one could opt for a science-fictional account: "The project could be that way, taking into consideration the present scientific knowledge." Additionally, one could choose a journalistic account, popularizing its science or exposing its politics: "It is not as it seems to be." Last but not least, there remains the option of a sociological account: a method that sometimes puts the hard sciences in question by treating the soft ones as a dogma.
