TRANSDISCIPLINARITY IN ART & SCIENCE: OPENING UP THE KNOWLEDGE Our aim is to show how the Art & Science field and the research in Art correspond to a need in our contemporary societies. We shall raise this topic by looking at the evolution of sciences and at inter- or multidisciplinary reading grids cross-pollinizing cultures. What are the singular or experimental relationships that divide or, on the contrary, unite the artistic and scientific approaches? How to open up the disciplines and the knowledge without falling into mingling or into vulgarisation? We shall see through concrete examples in neuroscience (cognitive reserve, brain plasticity) or at the border between Art & Science (cosmology, hybridation, mathematics, morphogenesis, palaeontology, performative art, mythology…), that only by adopting a common transdisciplinary framework can the contemporary Art and the scientific process be reconciled without any depreciation one to the other. It follows a plasticity of thought necessary for overcoming cleavages and for a better fluidity of language: a milestone in the era of the digital and transmedial culture we are immersed in.

Neurobiologist and president of an association dedicated to widening the links between arts, sciences and humanities (Plasticités Sciences Arts, PSA), MW Debono is currently in charge of an Art and Science pole in IdF (Ile de France, CC91) and directly involved in several national and European transdisciplinary networks or structures. In this interview carried out
as part of an artistic production dedicated to the study of the relationships between man and the postmodern city, he addresses the fundamental role of neuroplasticity in a hypercommunicating and hominescent era in the sense of Serres (responding to the radical upheavals of humanity). This new era of plastic artists requires a remodeling (globalization of the body and knowledge) and a redefinition of humanity and / or humanization invention of the worlds objects described by Serres and on another level vocation to Tout monde of Glissant ) facing the digital tidal wave, transhumanist or linked to the Anthropocene.