Quoting Sarah O'hana <[log in to unmask]>:
I saw this as part of my network postings and wish to know if I might 
make a contribution. As professor of Painting at Boston University I am 
involved in Scientific and Fine Arts based projects, see university 
profile http://people.bu.edu/hodonnel. I could provide a seminar 
lecture featuring collaboration between Artists and Scientists and open 
up insight into posibilities of this between the UK and the USA.
The thing is I do not have the time to write a paper on this. If you 
can disgard this aspect of the conference paricipation it would attract 
practicing artists who could contribute much research based on  a 
visual account of working in the contexts of sponsored work for Museums 
and Industry venues.
> Dear Kristina
>
> I am very interested in this event and would love to contribute, but I have a
> conference that I am organising for an international delegation of
> contemporary
> jewellers and it starts 2 days later! If you have  plans to hold any more
> events of this nature please keep me informed. My research at the
> University of
> Manchester is  practice based and therefore rare at this university.
>
> Regards
>
> sarah O'Hana
>
> Quoting kristina niedderer <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> The Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007:
>>
>> NEW KNOWLEDGE IN THE CREATIVE DISCIPLINES
>>
>>
>> Date: Friday 29 June 2007
>>
>> Host Institution: University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK
>> Collaborating Institution: London Metropolitan University, London, UK
>> Further Support: Journal of Visual Arts Practice, NAFAE, Middlesex 
>> University/DART: AHRC-funded collaborative doctoral training.
>>
>> Conference team:
>> Dr Kristina Niedderer, University of Hertfordshire
>> Rob Godman, University of Hertfordshire
>> Chris Smith, London Metropolitan University
>> Linden Reilly, London Metropolitan University
>>
>> Contact: Dr Kristina Niedderer [log in to unmask]
>> Conference home page:  http://www.art-design.herts.ac.uk/ekc/ekc1.html
>>
>>
>> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
>>
>> The first International Conference on Experiential Knowledge will be 
>> held on 29th of June 2007 at the University of Hertfordshire and 
>> address the theme of “New Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines”.
>>
>> THE CONFERENCE
>>
>> EKC 2007 will explore the theme of New Knowledge in the Creative 
>> Disciplines to examine what is understood and accepted as new 
>> knowledge in research and in creative practice, and what their role 
>> and relationship might be.
>>
>>  EKC 2007 will be the first in a series of biennial conferences by 
>> the University of Hertfordshire concerned with the issues and 
>> understanding of knowledge in research and practice in the creative 
>> disciplines. The experiential knowledge conferences will serve to 
>> address specific themes, to bring together researchers and 
>> practitioners from different disciplines to engender challenging 
>> multi-vocal debates around these themes, and to facilitate exchange 
>> and cross-fertilisation between the creative disciplines and other 
>> practice-led disciplines such as education, health, and knowledge 
>> management.
>>
>>  EKC 2007 will take the format of a one-day single-track event - 
>> interspersed with some breakout sessions and rounded off by a 
>> reception in the Art & Design Gallery of the University and a 
>> delicious conference dinner - in order to facilitate constructive 
>> and productive discussions. The aspiration is to provide a 
>> high-profile conference that can push the debate forward breaking 
>> new ground. The organizers aim to achieve this by combining a number 
>> of keynote papers by eminent researchers in the field with a call 
>> for position papers, which should propose challenging new views on 
>> the subject.
>>
>>  Papers selected for the conference proceedings will be published in 
>> a Special Issue of the Journal for Visual Arts Practice in Autumn 
>> 2007, which is available in both paper and electronic format.
>>
>> THEME & INVITATION FOR PAPERS
>>
>> The theme of the Experiential Knowledge Conference 2007 is New 
>> Knowledge in the Creative Disciplines. However, the theme can be 
>> interpreted differently with regard to research and to practice. 
>> Firstly, the concern for 'new knowledge' arises because research is 
>> defined in terms of the original contribution to knowledge or 
>> understanding. Secondly, through the creation of new artefacts, 
>> products, services etc, creative practice can be understood to 
>> create new realities and experiences, and thus new knowledge.
>>
>> Through the contribution to knowledge, research aims to advance its 
>> field.  However, practice also is interested in an advance of its 
>> respective field and claims to achieve this advance through its own 
>> processes and outcomes. In the creative disciplines, the advance of 
>> the field is for example associated with the creation of new 
>> artefacts, such as paintings, design products, performances, 
>> compositions, films etc. This has raised questions about the format 
>> of the contribution of knowledge in research and practice, about its 
>> format, and about how new knowledge is created.
>>
>> In order to address these issues, we wish to bring together people 
>> from different fields and disciplines to discuss these problems as 
>> well as different approaches to their solution. We invite 
>> contributions from the creative disciplines (art & design, music, 
>> film & media etc), philosophy, education and knowledge management 
>> that are concerned with the nature, role, and management of 
>> knowledge within research; and with the role and use of creative 
>> practice (both as process and outcome) as a medium by which to 
>> include experiential knowledge within research.
>>
>> Questions of interest are, for example:
>>
>> - What constitutes (new) knowledge (or understanding) in the 
>> creative disciplines?
>> - What constitutes (new) knowledge (or understanding) in research in 
>> the creative disciplines?
>> - Are the two the same?
>>
>> - What is the difference between knowledge and understanding?
>> - In which forms does knowledge (or understanding) appear?
>> - Where is knowledge situated or contained? (e.g. in the artwork or 
>> in the explanation?)
>> - How is new knowledge (or understanding) communicated in research 
>> and in practice?
>> - For whom is new knowledge or understanding relevant?
>>
>> - (How) can knowledge management serve to manage, or negotiate 
>> between, different kinds of knowledge?
>> - How can education deal with the communication of knowledge if part 
>> of the knowledge is experiential?
>> - How does education promote the production and/or acquisition of 
>> new knowledge or understanding?
>>
>>
>> SUBMISSIONS
>>
>> For EKC 2007, we invite position papers, which offer challenging new 
>> views on the subject. Position papers will be selected subject to a 
>> double blind review process by an international review team. In the 
>> first instance we ask for the submission of abstracts. Authors of 
>> selected abstracts will be asked to submit full papers. Of those 
>> papers invited for the conference, a further selection will be made 
>> for publication in the Journal of Visual Arts Practice, Autumn 2007.
>>
>> We invite the submission of abstracts of 700-800 words for position 
>> papers by 6th January 2007.
>>
>> Authors of selected abstracts will subsequently be invited to submit 
>> full papers (3000-5000w) in April 2007.
>>
>> For further information, please visit the Conference Website:  
>> http://www.art-design.herts.ac.uk/ekc/ekc1.html
>>
>
>
>
> Sarah O'Hana
> Laser Processing for the Creative Industries
> School of Mechanical Aerospace and Civil Engineering
> The University of Manchester
> Sackville Street
> Manchester M60 1QD
>
> + 44 (0)773 8734510
>