What is‘artistic research’? I say‘artistic research’. I could have used a number ofalternative names:‘art as research’,‘arts-based research’,‘creative research’,‘fine artresearch’,‘practice-based research’,‘practice-led research’and‘visual arts research’.It is by no means clear whether they all refer to exactly the same thing. I don’tpropose to identify how…
We want to use this document to share our way of thinking and doing things. We want to present our way of working, our way of understanding the factual universe that goes into thinking up and producing exhibitions on science and technology through this lexicon. We want to contribute towards raising awareness about a way of operating and understanding the world of exhibitions. We are making an e…
A multi-perspective and knowledge-oriented examination of such influ-encing variables and parameters as globalization and migration; digitization and inclusion; phenomena of media democracy; increasingly non-national citizens or those with multiple identities; the changed, mediatized social-ization of children and young people; unequal distribution of power and re-sources betwe…
Following its biggest recession for 10 years in 2020, the global art market recovered strongly in 2021, with aggregate sales of art and antiques by dealers and auction houses reaching an estimated $65.1 billion. This represented an increase in sales of 29% from 2020, with values also surpassing pre-pandemic levels of 2019.1 The COVID-19 pandemic created challenges and uncertainties for art mark…
The academic landscape is broad and fickle; academic fields, disciplines, and teach-ing perspectives always shift and change. In these academic places, identities, and communities overlap and work together. This book holds space for identities that are often undervoiced in academia. The perspectives of the contributors serve as models for how artists work within communit…
‘How big is the internet?’ asks an anonymous user in Jodel.1Reading thequestion on the display of a smartphone, amused by the presumed un-answerability of the question, one scrolls through the answers of otherusers: ‘Without the porn pages, it would fit on a CD’ or ‘324 bathtubs.’Since the app does not show this dialogue for longer than 24 hours,one takes a screenshot with a swift, …
he field of ‘Craft Sciences’ refers to research con-ducted across and within different craft subjects and academic contexts. This book aims to build on the breadth of topics, source material, methods, perspectives, and results that reside in this field, and to explore what unites the research in such di-verse contexts as, for example, the arts, conserva-tion, …