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In this paper, the authors analyze the process of making a filmic artwork called Time Animals (2021) as a long-term collaboration across the disciplines of art, science, and science and technology studies (STS). Joining a growing literature that situates such collaborations as part of an emerging discipline of art, science, and technology studies (ASTS), the authors explore some of the methodologies and institutional contexts that facilitated the production of this creative artwork inspired by the science of chronobiology. Following John Law and Wen-yuan Lin's notion of a "knowing space," the authors interrogate the ways practitioners from different disciplinary backgrounds collaborated to make an art commission inspired by chronobiological experiments—tracing the frictions and often spontaneous synchronicities of an exploratory research project occurring over many years and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. They argue that bringing STS into art-science collaborations creates space for artists to "play seriously" with science. The production of the paper itself also represents an experiment in interdisciplinary collaboration. Jointly authored by an STS scholar, a science communication scholar, and a visual artist, it draws on the approaches and languages of each of these disciplines to forge a critical reflection on ASTS in practice.
Author(s): Hussey KD, Whiteley L, Martin I
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Configurations
Year: 2026
Volume: 34
Issue: 2
Pages: 245-275
Online publication date: 19/05/2026
Acceptance date: 10/09/2025
Date deposited: 21/05/2026
ISSN (print): 1063-1801
ISSN (electronic): 1080-6520
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
URL: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/990294
ePrints DOI: 10.57711/yjxr-2z63
