The artist and the scientific research environment (Collaboration between artists and scientists at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago)

The authors reflect on the experiences of collaboration between artists and scientists at the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. They outline the measures that enable both media artists and computer scientists to benefit from the collaborations. in particular long-term collaborations are to be successful, the collabor must garner rewards not only in the field of the collaboration also in their own respective academic or professional fields.