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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline 6 February 2006)
***RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE 2006***
http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/index.html
The fourth international biennial conference on the foundations of
practice-based research in art and design will be convened at the
University of Hertfordshire, UK, on 7 & 8 July 2006.
The theme of RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE 2006 is the role of the context in the
interpretation of artefacts and visual semantics in art and design research.
In recent years there has been much international debate about the role of
the artefact in art and design research. The debate has considered, for
example, what contribution the artefact makes to the research process and
to the communication of the outcomes. However, artefacts are not
interpreted in isolation. The question of what contribution the artefact
makes has to be considered in the light of how the artefact is interpreted.
This interpretation takes place in a context; for example in the studio, in
a gallery, in the market place, online, in the context of "research" or in
the context of "design", etc. Research into Practice 2006 focuses on these
contexts and explores the instrumentality of the context on the reception
of artefacts as constituting or contributing to research.
Topics that might be considered include, but are not restricted to:
* Is the researcher responsible for establishing a context for the
"correct" interpretation of the artefact, i.e. is that also part of doing
research?
* Can the research content be activated/deactivated by changing the
context of reception?
* Are certain types of context more research-friendly than others?
* Is it the context that makes research into research, [cf. the
Institutional Theory of Art]
* What is signified by research being undertaken in the context of a
university or by being done by those labelled as researchers, or being
funded by a Research Council?
* Does research demand new types of context, and what would they need
to be like?
* What is the impact of traditional academic attempts at the
recontextualization of research from other disciplines outside art and design?
* Is decontextualization or disinterest, either possible or desirable?
FURTHER INFORMATION
The conference website is now available and will be updated as arrangements
are confirmed.
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Dr Michael A R Biggs
Professor of Aesthetics and Associate Dean Research
Faculty for the Creative and Cultural Industries
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB
UK
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