Art-Science Undisciplined - A Playbook for Transformative Collaboration

A guide to mutually transformative collaboration between artists and scientists.

Art-Science Undisciplined invites us into a collaborative journey grounded in mutual exploration and transformation. Moving beyond transactional exchanges of expertise, artist Janani Balasubramanian and astrophysicist Natalie Gosnell draw on their own experiences, as well as stories from other art-science collaborators, to offer an imaginative guide for developing a values-based and joyful undisciplined practice.

This playbook offers practical and conceptual tools for co-creation that foster new, powerful alliances among artists, scientists, and their supporters. While attentive to the everyday reality of busy schedules and institutional demands, Balasubramanian and Gosnell illuminate strategies to change our current ways of working and dare us to imagine a more expansive future. The projects, potentials, and possibilities resulting from undisciplined creation will reshape not only the practitioners but their worlds altogether.

About the author

Janani Balasubramanian is an artist, director, and founder based at Stanford University.

Natalie Gosnell is an astrophysicist, artist, and Associate Professor of Physics at Colorado College.

Product details

• Authors: Janani Balasubramanian, Janani Gosnell Balasubramanian, Natalie Gosnell
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 13.02.2026
• EAN: 9780520405547
• ISBN: 978-0-520-40554-7
• No. of pages: 184
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Science: general issues, The arts: general issues, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, SCIENCE / Study & Teaching, ART / Museum Studies, SCIENCE / Research & Methodology, ART / Study & Teaching, Impact of science & technology on society, Teaching of a specific subject, Impact of science and technology on society, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Scientific research, Research methods: general, The arts: general topics