ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the physical infrastructure of different types of city and university labs and organizations that bridge maker culture, the arts and broader contexts. It discusses emerging art historical and cultural practices to the social, technological and political developments of the times in which artists, curators and art groups worked. The book explores temporary infrastructures of the Maker Movement and more traditional arts infrastructures are straddled by a series of practitioners. It also discusses Little Inventors, a project that was originally seeded within an artist’s practice which then developed into a global creative brand. The book also examines Actor Network Theory as a pedagogical strategy that benefits Parsons School of Design students alongside artist-participants in the Cyborg Arts Co-Lab. It deals with Constant Dullaart about ways in which artists find resources and places to make technological projects.
