“The ‘Wind Tunnel Bulletin’ is produced by the Research Focus in Transdisciplinarity of the Zurich University of the Arts to share material that we find interesting. Following our concept of a man-engine (Fahrkunst), it is alternately edited by one half of the group with their different backgrounds either in the arts or in the humanities.
Issue n°11 explores the artistic measurement of the world:
In the last couple of weeks public space has been filled with measurings. We find calibration marks of social distance everywhere on the ground, 2 m in Europe, 1.83 m in the US. A good moment to take this practice into view: The art of measurement has epitomized scientific research ever since Francis Bacon published his Novum Organum (1620). Quantifying experience is widely seen as the self- evident opposite of the arts, to which qualitative assessment is subordinated in turn. As always, clichés fall far short of the mark. Thus, this issue of our Wind Tunnel Bulletin explores the artistic measurement of the world, which, among others, is negotiated using scientific instruments, manuals, proportions, rhythmizations, and formatting. ”