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DESIGN RESEARCH NEWS Volume 11 Number 7 Jul 2006 ISSN 1473-3862
DRS Digital Newsletter http://www.designresearchsociety.org
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CONTENTS
o Editorial
o Calls
o Announcements
o Web
o Books
o The Design Research Society: information
o Electronic Services of the DRS
o Contributing to Design Research News
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Editorial
The Design Research Society has had a single grade of membership
since its inception in 1966. That is all about to change. A
number of announcements will be made at the Annual General
Meeting in September. The first and most important of these
changes is the introduction of a new grade of Fellow. This will
attract experienced research professionals who may use the
suffix FDRS. Allied to this grade will be the development of a
College of Fellows who it is expected will advise the Society in
several ways. It is planned that the scheme will be rolled out
formally in September after the AGM. In the meantime, a small
group of senior DRS members under the chairmanship of Professor
Nigel Cross is appointing the first Fellows. An announcement
will be made on the DRS website before the end of July. Please
note that applications will only be accepted from DRS members.
If you are not a paid up member of DRS but may wish to apply for
Fellowship, please ensure that you join the Society before
formal applications begin in September. Details of the scheme
are below. Please note that this an early announcement, more
details later.
I announced here some time ago that the UK's Arts and Humanities
Research Council (AHRC) was conducting a review into
practice-led research in art and design. The Vice Chair of DRS,
Professor Chris Rust of Sheffield Hallam University, is leading
the review. There has been an interesting debate held online
over the past 3 weeks, which I am sure some of you have
participated in. The review team have just announced a research
experience survey. Do please go to the website and give the
team the benefit of your comments. Details below.
There is also a serious attempt being made to develop a database
of all research degrees awarded by UK universities across the
art and design sector broadly interpreted. Please note that
this is UK ONLY! If you have been awarded a research degree in
the UK, please check that you are listed, and if not please let
the organisers know. The contact details are below. If you can
spot others who you know are missing, please let them know. This
is a really important venture that will benefit the UK research
community considerably.
-- David Durling
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DRS Fellow
Members of the Design Research Society may apply to be elected
to the Society's membership grade of Fellow. Conferment of the
title of Fellow of the Design Research Society acknowledges an
established record of achievement in design research, and
attainment of peer recognition as a researcher of professional
standing and competence. Fellows of the Society may use the
personal suffix of FDRS. Retention of the title of Fellow is
subject to adherence to professional standards of competence and
behaviour, and to the rules applying to all members of the
Design Research Society. There is no fee for election to Fellow;
the annual membership fee for a Fellow is #60.
Criteria for election
Applicants must be current full members of the Design Research
Society, and must have:
- a research qualification (normally a Masters degree by
research or PhD);
- at least seven years experience of working at postgraduate
level in research related to design, or research-based design
practice;
- a significant record of achievement in design research, as
evidenced, for example, by publications of international
standard, and/or conducting successful research projects, and/or
successful education of postgraduate research students.
Further details will be posted on the DRS website during July,
and the scheme will be rolled out formally in September 2006.
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Research Experience Survey - Research in Art, Design &
Architecture
Dear Colleagues, Please take 10-12 minutes to complete our
online questionnaire.
You can find it at
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=484002256498
It is part of the review of practice-led research that we are
undertaking for the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council.
We welcome responses from academics and other researchers from
any country, whether you feel your work is "practice-led" or
not. You can find out more about the review at
www.ahrcreview.aces.shu.ac.uk
We will be running a separate survey soon for current PhD
students.
Professor Chris Rust, AHRC Research Review Review Coordinator
Art and Design Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University UK
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ADIT - Art and Design Index to Theses
Adit is a searchable online database of completed UK Mphil/ Ph.D
theses constructed over the last two years with a grant from
AHRC. If you have completed a thesis in Art and Design in the
UK, or supervised one to completion, it should be in ADIT so
that colleagues can find out about it.
You can check if it is included by going to:
http://www.shu.ac.uk/adit and searching for it by title or
author.
If your thesis is not in the database, contact Tom Fisher
([log in to unmask]) with the following:
Author name
Thesis title
Award (Mphil/ Ph.D)
Year of award
University that made the award
Abstract
http://www.shu.ac.uk/adit
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CALLS
4-7 January, 2007: THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
ENVIRONMENTAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
University of Madras, Chennai, India.
This conference aims to develop an holistic view of
sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic
issues are inseparably interlinked. It will work in a
multidisciplinary way, across diverse fields and taking varied
perspectives in order to address the fundamentals of
sustainability.
As well as impressive line up of international main speakers,
the conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and
colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and
researchers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond
to the conference call for papers. Papers submitted for the
conference proceedings will be peer-refereed and published in
print and electronic formats in the International Journal of
Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability. If
you are unable to attend the conference in person, virtual
registrations are also available which allow you to submit a
paper for refereeing and possible publication in this fully
refereed academic journal, as well as access to the electronic
version of the conference proceedings.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title
and short abstract) is 31 July 2006. Proposals are reviewed
within four weeks of submission.
http://www.SustainabilityConference.com
10-12 January 2007: The call is now open for submissions to the
forthcoming annual conference of MeCCSA/AMPE which will take
place in Coventry. We welcome submissions which focus on
research and/or practice relating to any aspect of our broad
field including media, communication, culture, film, television
and radio studies, digital technologies, sound and new media,
including proposals for workshops, roundtables, themed
screenings and panels as well as individual papers. Whilst the
MeCCSA/AMPE conference is typically open to any and all topics,
some of the themes we would like to explore in the 2007 meeting
include: cross-cultural research (within Europe and globally);
the role of research in political/ social action; envisioning
the field in 2010; media convergence; and the citizen-producer.
We welcome practice-oriented papers including those which focus
on: the experience/s of developing a vocational discipline
within an academic framework; lens-based media; working with
sound; practice as research, and reflections on teaching
methodologies in practice. As Coventry is also hosting an
international film festival immediately after the conference, we
especially welcome submissions which are film/production
oriented, including screenings, as we hope to encourage a
cross-over audience for both the conference and the festival.
Deadline for submissions is 15 September.
Please send submissions by email only to: Jane Wynn -
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contact Karen Ross - [log in to unmask]
15 October 2006: Improving the Relationship between Research
and Practice in Interaction Design
(NordiCHI 2006 Workshop, Oslo, Norway)
http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/hcid/nordichi/workshop.htm
Half-day workshop (total 4 hours)
Theme and Goals:
One of the most discussed topics in HCI research is if and how
research plays a role in HCI practice. Arguments have been made
that the research outcome is too abstract or too detailed and
therefore not useful by practitioners. Another argument that has
been raised is that the results from research, such as methods
and theories, are too time consuming to use and demand too much
learning and preparation.
There are different approaches a researcher can take in relation
to practice. One approach is to do research that "has to be
done" from an academic point of view. Another approach is to use
practice as a starting point for research-to see practice as the
client of research. There is also a large part of contemporary
HCI research that is not focused on practice at all. Instead,
this research is driven by the researchers' interests and
desires to explore and develop new forms of interaction, new
tools, and new technologies. The research becomes a field of
invention and innovation. The approaches and methodologies in
these activities are often not made explicit with the purpose to
inform practice about new ways of working.
In this workshop we want to address the issue of improving the
relationship between research and practice in interaction
design.
- How can we in a theoretical and intellectual way approach this
issue?
- Are there any existing successful approaches?
- Where can we find inspiration for new approaches for improving
this relationship?
This workshop aims to develop a research agenda for more
substantial attempts to address the relationship between
research and practice.
Relevance to the field:
We believe that a tighter interaction between research and
practice in HCI will help us reshaping our field toward the
better direction. Our workshop will lead us to discuss how
research outcomes can help improving practice, as well as how
experience from practice can help researchers find grand
challenges in the fields.
Submission:
We like to have two types of papers solicited-one type for
presenters, and the other type for non-presenters. For
presenters, we expect to receive 2-page position papers around
the following two areas:
- key issues around the relationship between research and
practice in the interaction design field
- case studies of the trial of marrying or reducing the gap
between research and practice in the interaction design field
For non-presenters, we expect to receive 1-page paper that
explains the interests around this topic, the reasons behind the
interests, and the expectations from the workshop.
The papers will be reviewed by organizers, and the selection
will be based on the level of contribution to this topic and the
balance between practice and research.
Papers should be submitted as .doc or .pdf files. The format of
the papers is not restricted although we expect to have
standardized formats--regular fonts like Times New Roman in 12
pts.
Please send the submissions to Youn-Kyung Lim
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Important Dates:
- July 20. Deadline for submission of position paper
- August 10. Authors of accepted position papers notified
- August 14. Early NordiCHI'06 registration deadline
Outcomes:
We expect to document the submitted position papers in a
proceeding form, which will be provided to all the participants
in the workshop. Issues and discussions explored in the workshop
will be summarized and documented as a report in an overview
form developed in conjunction with the workshop.
- Printed and online proceedings of the accepted position papers
- Special issue in a refereed HCI journal (e.g. Artifact)
Participants:
The overall plan is to provide an environment for people from
either a practical design background or an academic and
research-oriented design background to get together and share
their experiences and knowledge around the topic of reducing the
gap between research and practice in the interaction design area
to produce benefits for both directions.
Expected number: 8-10 presenters and 5-8 non-presenting
participants. Intended audience: a balanced collection of
researchers and practitioners in the interaction design area is
expected.
Organizers:
Erik Stolterman, Ph.D. (Professor and Director of the HCID
program at Indiana University, School of Informatics.
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Youn-Kyung Lim, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor at Indiana
University, School of Informatics. ([log in to unmask]))
Joannes Vandermeulen (Business Manager of Namahn
(www.namahn.com))
After the successful first DeSForM workshop on Design &
Semantics of Form & Movement in Newcastle upon Tyne in 2005, we
are working with the TU/e Faculty of Industrial Design and
Philips Design BV to organize the 2nd DeSForM workshop to be
held October 26 & 27, 2006 in Eindhoven. The scope of the
conference and workshop is the design of products, systems and
services, with a focus on the meanings of products and how they
behave.
On behalf of the chairs, Steven Kyffin of Philips Design and Loe
Feijs of the Technical University Eindhoven, I would like to
draw the call for proposals in the poster and conference website
to your attention:
http://www.desform2006.id.tue.nl/CallForPapers.html
The deadline for papers is the 5th September. Papers will be
selection by the program committee and published in a refereed
conference proceeding.
Please pass on the details to any colleagues that you feel might
be interested in attending or presenting a paper.
Invitation Cape Town 2007 CIB W096 Architectural Management
stream in conjunction with the CIB World Conference
all members of the CIB W096 commission on Architectural
Management and those interested in the areas of architecture,
design and management in construction.
Please find enclosed our first call for abstracts for the CIB
W096 Architectural Management stream 'International perspectives
on design management and design integration'. This with
apologies for eventual cross postings.
This conference is held in conjunction with and as part of the
CIB World Conference 'Construction for Development'.
Please note that the submission deadline is set on 30 August
2006. This deadline differs from the other streams within the
conference.
For the W096 stream papers are invited on the following topics
- How design teams can handle and manage international clients
and contractors.
- The international design team, how to manage and integrate
design contributions from globally distributed partners.
- Importing, exporting and integrating design services.
- Local culture and its influence on design procedures.
- The structure of the construction industry and the role of
design.
- International differences in the architects
organization/office
- International differences concerning the articulation of the
design management function within the AEC office, and within
projects
http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/users/prins/internet/ where you can
download the W096 conference flyer and our abstract template.
For general information on the CIB World Conference please go to
http://www.cibworld.nl and follow the links to the conference
list.
12-14 January 2007: DACH 2007 International Conference on
Digital Applications in Cultural Heritage 2007 Tainan, Taiwan
Hosted by:
National Center for Research and Preservation of Cultural
Properties, Taiwan Graduate Institute of Architecture, National
Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
http://www.arch.nctu.edu.tw/dach2007
INTRODUCTION
The International Conference on Digital Applications in Cultural
Heritage 2007 (DACH 2007) brings together researchers and
experts from academia, field work, arts, industry and
government, who work on different aspects of preservation and
research of cultural heritage but all use digital technology as
their tool and media. The goal of this conference is to serve as
a platform for all participants to share and exchange knowledge,
experiences, and expertise in this particular field that
preserve precious heritage and explore potential properties by
means of digital technology. English will be the official
language of the conference.
PUBLICATION
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer
Publishing, The Netherlands or ArchiData Publishing, Taiwan.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Although a wide range of related fields are involved in the
research and application of digital technology and cultural
heritage, the conference will focus on the practice-oriented
research and applications of cultural heritage using various
digital technologies. Specific topics include (but not limited
to) the following aspects of cultural heritage:
- 3D and Scene Modeling
- 3D Data Capturing and Processing
- Application of 3D Simulation and Animation
- Archaeological and Architectural Heritage Conservation
- Cultural Informatics and Tourism
- Data Acquisition Technologies and applications focusing on
Photogrammetry and Laser scanning
- Development and Integration of Close-Range Vision Techniques
- Documentation and Monitoring of Cultural Heritage
- e-Libraries and Virtual Museums
- GIS and Spatial Information System
- Human Computer Interaction Design
- Innovative Graphics Applications and Techniques
- Interactive Environments and Applications
- Internet-based Cultural Heritage Applications
- Multimedia, Data Management and Archiving of Digital
Information
- Reproduction Techniques and Rapid Prototyping
- Standards and Documentation
- Tools for Education and Learning
- Visualization, Animation and VR Techniques
- VR in Heritage Construction/Reconstruction
DACH 2007 seeks papers that reflect the full breadth and scope
of the listed topics and related areas. Authors should write for
the broader audience of cultural heritage and make clear how
their work contributes to the whole. Submission of papers
involves a two-stage process: In the first stage, interested
participants should submit only an abstract of the proposed
study. In the second stage, authors who receive the notification
of abstract acceptance should submit a full paper. Abstracts are
reviewed on the basis of originality and significance of the
contribution to the field. Abstracts and papers submitted should
not have been published previously in other conferences,
journals, or magazines.
Authors should submit an abstract of the paper within 300-500
words by July 21, 2006. The abstract submission will be handled
electronically via an online submission system. Notification of
abstract acceptance will be sent out around August 7, 2006 with
a guideline to prepare the full paper (a template will be
provided). Camera-ready full papers should be submitted no later
than September 21, 2006. Authors of accepted papers must
register to the conference in order for papers to appear in the
conference proceedings.
http://www.arch.nctu.edu.tw/dach2007
8 December 2006: IADIS International Conference on Cognition and
Exploratory Learning in Digital Age (CELDA 2006) Barcelona,
Spain
http://www.iadis.org/celda2006
Conference background and goals
The IADIS CELDA 2006 conference aims to address the main issues
concerning with the evolving learning processes and supporting
pedagogies and applications in digital age. There have been huge
advancements in both cognitive psychology and computing that
have affected the educational arena. The convergence of these
two disciplines has never been faster before and this marriage
has affected the very basis of the academia. Paradigms such as
just-in-time learning, constructivist approaches,
student-cantered learning and collaborative approaches have
emerged, and are being supported by technological advancements
such as simulations, virtual reality and multi- agents systems
to name a few. This merger has created both opportunities and
areas of serious concerns. This conference aims to cover both
technological as well as pedagogical issues related to these
developments. Main tracks have been identified (see below).
However innovative contributions that do not fit into these
areas will also be considered as long as they are directly
related to the overall theme of the conference.
Format of the Conference
The conference will comprise of invited talks, oral
presentations for discussion-oriented papers, and poster
sessions for work-in-progress. The proceedings of the conference
will be published in the form of a book and CD-ROM.
Authors of the best published papers in the CELDA 2006
proceedings will be invited to publish extended versions of
their papers in Journal of Research on Technology in Education.
Types of submissions
Full papers, Short Papers, Reflection papers and Tutorials. All
submissions will go through a double- blind refereeing process
with at least two international experts.
Important Dates:
- Submission Deadline (extension): 17 July 2006
- Notification to Authors: until 11 September 2006
- Final Camera-Ready Submission and Early Registration: Until 16
October 2006
- Late Registration: After 16 October 2006
Conference Location
The conference will be held in Barcelona, Spain.
http://www.iadis.org/celda2006
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
19-20 September 2006: Start the academic year with a meeting
and discussion around new moving image content for learning,
teaching and research. Join us at the two-day Learning on
Screen Conference and Awards event which takes place in
Birmingham at The Custard Factory.
The conference features four themes
Large Scale Moving Image and Sound Digitisation Projects;
Virtual Learning Environments - proprietary and open source;
Copyright Issues and New Licences;
Podcasting and Interactive Television.
On the evening of 19th September all participants are invited to
attend the Learning on Screen Dinner and Awards hosted by Robert
Llewellyn (HOLLYWOOD SCIENCE and SCRAPHEAP CHALLENGE) and Dr
Jonathan Hare (HOLLYWOOD SCIENCE and ROUGH SCIENCE) at Aston
Business School Conference Centre.
http://www.bufvc.ac.uk/conferences/learningonscreen/index.html
5-6 September 2066: CONFERENCE Migratory practices: exchanges
between anthropology, art, craft and design. Manchester
Metropolitan University
Keynote speakers Prof Tim Ingold; Moira Vincentelli
http://www.miriad.mmu.ac.uk/craftdesign/migratorypractices/
23-24 October 2006: Sustainable Innovation 06 Global
challenges, issues and solutions 11th International Conference
Stuart Graduate School of Business Illinois Institute of
Technology Chicago USA
Organised by: The Centre for Sustainable Design
(http://www.cfsd.org.uk)
In Association with: The Center for Sustainable Enterprise,
Stuart Graduate School of Business
Part of the 'Towards Sustainable Product Design' series of
conferences
Programme
High quality speakers from business, government, academia and
non-governmental organisations will present leading-edge
perspectives on sustainable innovation.
Concept
Sustainable Innovation 06 will provide a platform to discuss
gobal challenges and opportunities for sustainable
product/service development and design. It will highlight best
practice and provide a range of case studies and examples.
Sustainable Innovation 06 will include invited and refereed
papers covering sustainable product/service development and
design from academics, consultants, product designers and design
engineers, sustainability, environment and CSR managers and
other business functions. The event will be a be a unique
learning experience and networking opportunity. Delegates will
come from large companies, entrepreneurs and small and
medium-sized (SMEs), as well as academia, government and
non-governmental organisations (NGOs). The conference is
supported by an leading-edge international Advisory Board. See
www.cfsd.org.uk/events/tspd11 for moree information.
Benefits to delegates
- Unique: forum for new ideas and concepts
- Leading-edge: presentations from key international
researchers, practioners, policy-makers and thinkers
- Research: over 50 papers have been submitted to the refereed
paper section (the 'top 30' have been selected)
- Networking: opportunities to meet business, government and
academia
- Track-record: over 1100 delegates from 35 countries have
attended previous 'Towards Sustainable Product Design'
conferences
Fees
See http://www.cfsd.org.uk/event/tspd11 for breakdown of
delegate rates
Contact
For more information on Sustainable Innovation 06 please
contact: Martin Charter Director The Centre for Sustainable
Design University College for the Creative Arts Tel: + 44 (0)
1252 892772 Fax: + 44 (0) 1252 892747 Email:
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9-11 August 2006: 7th Brazilian Conference on Design Curitiba,
Brazil
http://www.design.ufpr.br/nucleo
Zollverein School offers new MBA programme in design competency
The Zollverein School consistently links management skills and
design competency throughout its MBA programme. The aim of its
professional development programme is to stimulate new styles in
management and corporate strategy. On completion of their
studies, the Zollverein School's MBA graduates will be able to
plan innovative processes and put these into effect in concrete
business models.
The MBA programme at the Zollverein School is aimed at managers
both in business and in the creative sector. It is directed at
ambitious professionals who are faced with issues of design,
creativity and innovation in their professional lives.
http://www.zollverein-school.de
The Microsoft/IDSA Next-Gen Design Competition
The competition challenges entrants to rethink the Windows-based
PC experience today and the role it plays in people's lives, to
envision how form factor influences the digital lifestyle--from
personal productivity at work or home, to entertainment,
mobility and lifestyle. The trick will be to think big, to be
bold, to be inspired, whilst paying attention to sustainable
technologies, and ecological and environmental innovation.
Entries can be submitted as of August 15th 2006. An entry kit
can be downloaded from http://www.nextgendesigncomp.com.
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WEB
LabforCulture, the dynamic, new interactive website aimed at all
those in arts and culture who collaborate, create, share and
produce work across borders in Europe, went live 8 June 2006.
The site is a vast source of current information and debate on
European cultural cooperation, from case studies and inspiring
stories of trans-border collaboration to the latest online
cultural news and newsletters.
From information and tips on how to fund a project to links to
key cultural organisations and networks. There is an extensive
resource section and research information includes topical
cultural trends and debates in Europe.
You can even contribute your own experiences, resources and
points of view through MyLabforCulture, an online meeting place
for all those involved with cultural activities.
LabforCulture was initiated by the European Cultural Foundation
together with many partners. It is supported by the leading
European cultural organisations, by many Culture Ministries, and
the European Commission.
http://www.labforculture.org/
PODCASTING: Academic Podcasting and everything that goes with
it
This online discussion list is designed to foster a network for
researchers and practioners working with podcasting in any
subject area within higher learning institutions. Links with the
industry are also desirable since commercial applications of
podcasting are currently more prevalent than academic ones.
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/PODCASTING
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BOOKS
Schmidt-Burkhardt, Astrit. 2005. Stammbaume der Kunst. Zur
Genealogie der Avantgarde. Berlin: Akademie Verlag.
In 1936, the still-young Museum of Modern Art organized an
influential exhibition titled Cubism and Abstract Art. The cover
of the exhibition catalogue featured a diagram by museum
director Alfred H. Barr on the development of abstract art
between 1895 and 1935. Over the years, Barr's diagram has become
one of the central icons of 20th century art, certainly one of
the definitive documents of 20th century art history.
What made the Barr diagram so important is the fact that it
established the concept of an artistic genealogy in the minds of
a broad and developing audience for art. While the notion of
artistic genealogy dates back to earlier times, Barr's chart
spoke toward a future audience marked by the coming shift of
economic power that would reshape an art world with its center
of gravity in New York following the Great Depression and World
War II.
By the end of the 20th century, the explosive growth of art
museums, the dramatic expansion of art markets, and the wide
development of art programs in universities and colleges would
reshape our understanding of art and its role in culture,
society, and the economy. By then, the Museum of Modern Art - or
the idea that MoMA came to represent - would make Barr's chart a
pivotal marker in the relatively new world of contemporary art.
The chart was one reason for this. This idea of a historically
rooted present was another. The idea of the museum that MoMA
came to represent began as a pioneering exemplar, becoming a
model, and then a catalyst and reagent. Today, MoMA as an
institution and an idea fills a significant role in contemporary
culture for art, architecture, design, film, and new media. It
establishes these as a complex of cultural forces against which
institutions and individuals measure themselves and react.
Barr's chart predicts all this in an uncanny way, setting the
pattern for a new way to conceptualize art. The chart envisions
a genealogical world in which artists and art institutions
follow a pattern while working against the pattern they follow
in a series of conscious historical and dialectical
developments.
The power of this idea resides in the complex relation of modern
museums and art history to the larger artistic legacy of
humankind. In the past, guilds, national academies, and patrons
determined the right of legacy and legitimate entry into the art
of each era. Patrons importantly included the church, the royal
courts, and the public apparatus of the state, framing art in
ideological and formal boundaries. Because these social
institutions determined visibility and social memory, they also
determined the history that would follow the art.
This began to change when a vastly more complex social system
framed the institutions and economics of art. This, in turn, led
to a different kind of struggle over history and legacy.
The presumption of legacy establishes the right to participate
in artistic discourse networks, canon formation, literature
development, and social memory. While some artists can afford to
play for history, as Marcel Duchamp or John Cage did, the
temporary stakes are much higher for artists who hope to live on
the sale of their work. For them, the presumption of legacy
implies access to markets.
In the modern era, the powerful institutional traditions of the
past no longer determine the nature of artistic reception.
Historical standing is bound up with and transformed in meaning
by the institutions that collect, preserve, and interpret
historical artifacts and documents. An articulate awareness of
history and a conscious understanding of historical criteria
therefore began to shape powerful expectations of future
standing or the very possibility of future standing. This came
to affect the reaction of artists, collectors, critics, and
historians towards art in the present.
This context makes Astrit Schmidt-Burkhart's book on the family
trees of art as compelling as it is interesting.
Starting in the 19th century, Schmidt-Burkhardt shows us the
development of the genealogical concept of art history and
considers how art historians developed a concept that shaped our
awareness of art. Then, she shows us the history of this idea
starting in the 19th century.
The book picks up speed with the development of Barr's diagram.
This "diagrammatic turn" is important because it relocates what
has hitherto been an historical exercise in present time. In
doing so, it relocates the present in the living stream of
history. A rich and detailed chapter explores Barr's diagram,
its sources, and its influence.
From here, Schmidt-Burkhardt moves forward to discuss what she
labels the "genealogization" of the avant-garde. Starting with
the history-conscious Futurists and the culturally
self-conscious Surrealists, the author develops a sense of how
the avant-garde located itself as a revolutionary historical
force.
The book moves into present history with a chapter on the
avant-garde after 1945. Here, we find such memorable documents
as Ad Reinhardt's hilarious "How to Look at Modern Art in
America" of 1946 and the 1961 edition with its even more
sardonic conclusions. (Remember that Reinhardt's most famous
work consisted of paintings painted entirely in subtle shades of
black.)
Here, too, we find the Danish Asger Jorn's philosophical spirals
and George Maciunas's many diagrams of Fluxus.
The final chapter of this magnificent intellectual chronology
brings the theme of family trees up to date with a review of
post-modern self-placement in the flow of history. Some artists
play with the original Barr diagram, as David Diao does. Others
create marvelous new ways to conceive history, as Gerhard
Dimoser and Rainer Zendron do in their installation, Kunst in
Kontext. Close to the end of the book - with its 200 intriguing
illustrations - we find supermodel Claudia Schiffer posing with
a history chart painting by Peter Davies.
This book offers a fascinating tour of an idea that has become
as influential to artists as to art historians. Those who may
not understand every nuance of the German text will nevertheless
find the illustrations valuable. This book will also be a rich
addition to the field of information design for those who work
with the ways we represent information through history and the
flow of time.
-- Reviewed by Ken Friedman
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CONTRIBUTIONS
Information to the editor, Professor David Durling, Middlesex
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Book information and suggestions for reviews should be sent to
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