Workshop Artistic Research

»A portrait of the artist as states of mind« by E.G.A.R.

In this workshop, researchers from IXDM together with guest presenter Prof. Dr. Michael Schwab (artistic researcher and co-initiator of the Journal for Artistic Resarch) will ask what artistic research means today, look into specific aspects of the question and discuss selected case studies.

Michael Schwab is a London-based artist and artistic researcher who investigates postconceptual uses of technology in a variety of media including photography, drawing, printmaking, and installation art. He holds a PhD in photography from the Royal College of Art, London, that focuses on post-conceptual post-photography and artistic research methodology. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR), co-editor of Intellectual Birdhouse. Artistic Practice as Research. (2012), co-editor of The Exposition of Artistic Research: Publishing Art in Academia (2013), editor of the book Experimental Systems. Future Knowledge in Artistic Research (2015) as well as the editor of Transpositions. Aesthetico-Epistemic Operators in Artistic Research. (2018).

Workshop Program

1. Lucie Kolb
Wreaking Havoc on the Rules of Grammar

2. Michael Rottmann
Negative Media Theory: Something Positive?

3. Johannes Bruder
Resistance

Break

4. Shintaro Miyazaki
Is Research Self-Organized?

5. Claudia Mareis
Artistic Research in the Context of SNSF

6. Michael Schwab
Embracing Artistic Articulations: examples from the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) and the Transpositions (TP) research project

The workshop is organized by Michaela Büsse, Michael Rottmann and Nuria Barcelo.