Michael Schwab received his PhD in Photography (Image Automation: Post-Conceptual Post-Photography and the Deconstruction of the Photographic Image) from the Royal College of Art in 2008, his MA in Photography from the London College of Printing in 2000 and his MA in Philosophy (Nietzsche and Heidegger: Metaphysics as Problem) from the University of Hamburg in 1996. Since 2003 his exhibitions and associated events have increasingly focused on artistic research. He lives and works in London and Ketsch (Germany). He is co-initiator of JAR, the Journal for Artistic Research.

Selected Exhibitions
2009. Aberrations, Academie Royale des Beaux Arts, Bruxelles, solo
2009. Components of the Image, +44 141 Gallery, Glasgow, group
2008. Figurations of Knowledge, Villa Elisabeth, Berlin, group
2008. Full Circle, studio 1.1, London, duo with Eduardo Padhila
2008. Distance Circles, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, solo
2008. figure, The Tramdepot Gallery, London, solo
2007. Full Circle, Huisrechts, Amsterdam, duo with Eduardo Padhila
2007. Objet d'Art, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, group
2006. Notions of Drawing, Artbust, CIP House Exhibition Space, London, group
2002. Soul Windows, Domo Baal Gallery, London, group
1998. Remembering Times Past, Apexart Gallery, New York, group

Selected Publications
2009. First the Second: The Supplemental Function of Research in Art. In: C. Caduff, F. Siegenthaler and T. Wälchli (eds.) Art and Artistic Research: Music, Visual Art, Design, Literature, Dance. Zürich: Zürcher Hochschule der Künste / Scheidegger & Spiess, pp. 56-65.
2009. The Power of Deconstruction in Artistic Research. Working Papers in Art & Design 5.
2008. First, the Second: Walter Benjamin's Theory of Reflection and the Question of Artistic Research. Journal of Visual Art Practice, 7(3), pp. 213-223.
2008. Paris. London: Copy Press.
2007. [Untitled]. In: M. Casey and P. McAree, (eds.) as if something once mentioned now plain to see. Birmingham: Colony.
2006. Artistic Research and the Role of Critique. Reflections on Creativity. Dundee: Duncan of Jordanstone College.
2004. The Photographic Image. In: J. Rabagliati, (ed.) George Hanson Critical Forum. London: Royal College of Art, pp. 111-127.

Artistic research is first of all an ambition. It is an ambition to transform not only art and education, but also what is considered to be knowledge. The Journal for Artistic Research will be a success if it helps shifting existing registers of knowledge, which are after all also registers that delimit art from other occupations. It still remains unclear how artistic research is best communicated; the Journal for Artistic Research is also an experiment with modes of presentation and dissemination across a field of practices not limited to art.