Artistic Transfer

Non-conformist, non-linear, unruly thought and action have always led to great works of art, pathbreaking inventions and forward-looking perspectives. But how can this precious good find its way into our everyday working life to help us deal with social, ecological and economic challenges? The crucial step, Ursula Bertram contends, is to reach a synergy of logically justifiable knowledge and the capacity to navigate in open systems. To find out how such synergy could come about, Ursula Bertram has observed the strategies and principles of artists, choreographers, musicians and unruly thinkers and compared them with the statements of physicists, mathematicians, managers and researchers. She shows that when artistic thought is circulated and probed in non-artistic fields, an extremely efficient pattern called artistic transfer emerges.

With contributions by Werner Preißing and others.

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Ursula Bertram (Prof.), geb. 1952, ist Künstlerin und Professorin an der TU Dortmund. Ihr Forschungsschwerpunkt ist der Transfer künstlerischen Denkens in außerkünstlerische Felder wie Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft. Sie ist Mitbegründerin des Modellprojekts »Zentrum für Kunsttransfer« mit der [ID] factory als interdisziplinärem Lehr- und Entwicklungsraum für non-lineares, künstlerisches Denken. Künstlerische Arbeiten im öffentlichen Raum in Deutschland, USA, Russland und Venezuela.

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Creativity is not a prisoner of art Non-conformist, non-linear, unruly thought and action have always led to great works of art, pathbreaking inventions and forward-looking perspectives, helping us deal with social, ecological and economic challenges. But how can it find its way into our everyday working life? The crucial step, Ursula Bertram contends, is to reach a synergy of logically justifiable knowledge and the capacity to navigate in open systems.To find out how such synergy could come about, Ursula Bertram has observed the strategies and principles of artists, theatre directors, musicians and unruly thinkers and compared them with the stories of physicists, mathematicians, managers and researchers. She shows that when artistic thought is circulated and tested in fields beyond the arts, an extremely efficient pattern called artistic transfer emerges.With contributions by Bazon Brock, Werner Preißing, and others.

Ursula Bertram, born in 1952, is an artist and professor at the Technical University Dortmund, Germany. Her research focuses on the transfer of artistic thinking into other fields, such as business and the sciences. She is co-founder of the flagship project Centre for Artistic Transfer, with the IDfactory providing an interdisciplinary space for teaching and the development of non-linear, artistic thinking. Her artistic works have been exhibited in Germany, the United States, Russia, and Venezuela.