Please find pasted below some information regarding a research seminar
organised by the DOJ Student Forum in Dundee.
Who's Afraid of Artistic Research?(3)
On Friday, 8th May 2009, the PhD Forum at Duncan of Jordanstone
College of Art & Design, University of Dundee will host another one-
day symposium about the context and methodologies of Artistic
Research. The event is a follow-up to the two previous events held on
22 May 2008 and 23 October 2008. Like its predecessors, the symposium
will again bring together an international group of leading
theoreticians and reflective practitioners in the field of “practice-
based research in art and design”.
While in Europe the discussion is comparatively young and has evolved
in recent years mainly as an outcome of the Bologna reforms, practice-
based art and design research in the UK has more than a decade of
experience. It is one aim of the symposium to interlink these
different backgrounds. Another aim is to map the terrain of the
diverse approaches to practice-based research and discuss the
different philosophical and art theoretical backgrounds which inform
the different models.
What is the difference between research-based art and art-based
research? Why would an artist want to become a researcher? Does the
artist researcher conflict with the notion of artistic autonomy? What
does the epistemological shift from art production to knowledge
production imply for the actors involved in the field? What are the
specificities and styles of artistic knowledge production? How can
they become the topics of a research practice that can be regarded as
both scientifically and artistically based? What are the goals of such
research? What is the desired outcome? These are just some of the
questions which will be explored at this event.
The framework of the “practice-based research in art and design” is
still very open and integrative. It allows the artist researcher to
develop his/her own methodology within a research process which is
highly individual and dependent on the specific subject matter.
Entering the arena of ongoing discussion, negotiation and re-
adjustment and engaging in the discourse about epistemology and
methodology essentially contributes to constituting this freedom.
Speakers:
* Prof Dr Tom Holert (Art historian, Academy of Fine Art Vienna)
* Dr Sophia Lycouris, artist/ researcher (Edinburgh College of Art)
* Prof Hinrich Sachs (artist, Royal University College of Fine Arts
Stockholm)
* Prof Dr Gavin Renwick, artist/researcher (Dundee University)
Chair: Dr Ken Neil, artist/researcher (Glasgow School of Art)
Organised by: PhD Forum DoJ, Lindsay Brown and Cornelia Sollfrank
Location: Dundee Contemporary Arts · Nethergate 152 · Dundee DD1 4DX
· Meeting Room
The event is free, but advance booking is required: 01382-909900
For further information about the PhD
Forum:http://www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/Research/PhD_Forum.html
Lindsay Brown
PhD Researcher
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
University of Dundee
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