The arts and sciences’ respective relationship to qualitative and quantitative knowledge has traditionally created a distance between the two fields, inhibiting a sustained interaction. The intent of The Banff Centre’s Analogous Fields residency is to bring together scientists, researchers, and artists in order to explore, in theory and practice, the collaborative potential between the arts and sciences.

The goal of this site is to establish a work-space that presents a record of my work with Saul Ostrow (and eventually others) as we continue to develop an alternative idea for artistic research as a means of knowledge production.

A course examining issues of aesthetic relationships and outcomes between art and science. This course was developed by Charles Tucker and Michael Bernard with an emphasis on the discursive nature of qualitative and quantitative information as a means of production.

The MAIV residency at The Banff Centre from May 12 to June 20, 2008, brings together a group of artists, writers, curators, and other creative and cultural producers to explore the relationships between research and artistic practice. Much has been said and written about research on visual arts, but there is relatively little about research for visual arts (the array of practices that both inform and constitute artistic production) or research through visual art (where artistic practice becomes a vehicle for producing and presenting new knowledge).

Simple Red is a collaborative video work with Lane Cooper exhibited at the Ingenuity Festival in Cleveland OH

Space Lab, a working space for artist designed to provide support for experimental Art Projects.

Semiosis installation exhibited at Spaces Gallery in Cleveland OH. A collaborative work with Lane Cooper and Andrew Stoltz.

Disputa exhibition at the Sculpture Center

Disputa Installation at the Sculpture Center in Cleveland OH

Website for artist and frequent collaborator Lane Cooper.

Four Institute faculty members will participate in Ingenuity's "Synergy" lecture series at noon on July 22 in Cleveland State's Monte Ahuja Hall. Gary Sampson, Chuck Tucker, Saul Ostrow and their colleague from Case Western Reserve University, Fred Collopy, will discuss how a multi-institutional graduate program in art and design would contribute to Greater Cleveland's economy and culture. Sampson is professor of liberal arts and associate dean of graduate studies at the Institute, Ostrow is chair of the Institute's Visual Arts and Technologies Environment and associate professor of painting, Tucker is chair of the Institute Integrated Media Environment, and Collopy is professor of information systems and cognitive science at CWRU.

Review of Disputa in Sculpture written by Siobhan La Piana

This site contains artist videos including collaborative efforts between Lane Cooper and Charles Tucker.

Press Release for group exhibition at Elevation Art. Work exhibited by Charles Tucker are part of the Filter series that include both digital and mixed media construction using filtration discs as an aesthetic examination of quantitative and qualitative interplay.

Group Exhibition at Elevation Art. Reviewed by Dan Tranberg for the Plain Dealer Cleveland, OH.

Charles is the Department Head of Sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art

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Yesterday Saul Ostrow talked about how one makes sense of things and how he prefers talking about a rhetorical object and the research process and timeline that he uses to get through a collaboration. He is collaborating on a project with Charles Tucker, who talked about heuristic research.

Environmental Sculpture (Student Project)

Site Specific is a week-long, residential program
designed to introduce high school students to
a week in the life of an art school student.

Art and Science Course, Cleveland Institute of Art and CASE Western Reserve University

Video piece Charles Tucker and Lane Cooper

Saul Ostrow is collaborating on a project with Charles Tucker, who talked about heuristic research.