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Os pesquisadores artísticos são confrontados pela questão da identidade de modos particulares. Para iniciantes, somos constantemente desafiados a explicar a questão da identidade em nosso campo — será que é ainda arte? Será mesmo ciência? Em alguns países e regiões, a urgência deste desafio tem grandemente diminuído ao longo dos anos, mas noutros, ainda é difícil ter o reconhecimento como pesquisador artístico (e ser valorado enquanto tal).

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At the Knot of Presence: Weaving with the embodied knowledge of my artistic palette in Liza Lim's One and the Other (Speculative Polskas for Karin)

Karin Emilia Hellqvist

This artistic research exposition unfolds the shared work between Australian composer Liza Lim and Swedish violinist Karin Hellqvist, from the viewpoint of Hellqvist as performer and co-creator. Together, the artists have created the violin solo work One and the Other (Speculative Polskas for Karin) (2021–22). The Swedish folk music tradition that Hellqvist has carried with her since her childhood, and especially the polska dance, serves as their point of departure.

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Greenwashed Concrete. Artistic Research With, On, and Against Concrete, Concerning Conflicting Concepts of Its Sustainability

Christoph Weber & Nikolaus Eckhard

Environmental science has shown that the global use of concrete has led to significant challenges today and will seriously trouble future generations. Nevertheless, international building industries advertise concrete as a natural, regional, sustainable, and hence green material. In 2020, global human-made mass exceeded all living biomass, with concrete accounting for nearly half of it, making it a signal of the Capitalocene. A radical transformation of industrial building culture is asked for, otherwise anthropogenic mass will be three times biomass by 2040.

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Hearing Rhythm, Seeing Rhythm: A Research Approach to Reimagining Traditions of Chinese Poetic ‘rules of rhythm’

Ling Liu

Throughout the history of China, from early dynasties into contemporary times, aspects of poetry, painting, and writing have been grounded in varied but deeply connected ‘rules of rhythm’. These ‘rules’ permeate in diverse yet identifiable and recognizable forms. The research in this project is aimed at both adopting and adapting these rules of rhythm or rhythmic patterns in an experimental form that reimagines a tradition of ‘lyric aesthetics’ in the context of the contemporary interplay between sound, image, and writing.

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Renegotiating the notion of artistic genius - within the frame of an institutional theatre

Mette Tranholm

This exposition explores how the Betty Nansen Theatre in Copenhagen, with the artistic research project, BETTY DEVELOPS, works with spreading a collaborative practice to the infrastructure of an entire institutional theatre and how this renegotiates the notion of artistic genius and the star. The exposition offers a meta-reflection on the author’s artistic research activities at the theatre.

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synthetic bodies: protocols for intra-acting

Lenka Veselá

Our bodies are porous entities that interconnect with and depend on the broader collectivity of human and nonhuman life that exists within a shared environment. Using the figuration of synthetic bodies, this exposition aims to examine the relationships in which we are enmeshed as our bodies absorb and excrete chemicals.

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As exposições multimídia que publicamos têm sido bem sucedidas em relação à articulação da prática artística enquanto pesquisa. Elas permitem romper as frequentes relações hierárquicas entre as mídias e o texto, como também, a dominante estrutura linear da escrita acadêmica fazendo a forma artística desempenhar um papel no campo da publicação da pesquisa e da disseminação.

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Controlled Rummage Approaches for Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre

Sarah Bennett, Andrew Bracey, Danica Maier

'Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre' is an artistic research project involving three artistic researchers: Andrew Bracey, Danica Maier and Sarah Bennett. A bummock is the unseen — submerged — part of an iceberg, and comprises the largest volume of ice, compared with the tip — which is visible above the surface of the water. Likewise, archives hold more items than are commonly viewed or accessed. In Bummock, we choose to bypass the catalogue to engage with materials directly, establishing a 'controlled rummage' method as an alternative approach to standard archive access practice.

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Da imagem ausente

Ludgero Almeida

O projeto apresenta-se como uma investigação centrada nas reverberações da prática artística diante dos arquivos institucionais e privados e de imagens e objetos-vestígios encontrados no Vale do Ave (Portugal), relacionados à história, ao imaginário e à memória do itinerário do algodão e da indústria têxtil algodoeira neste território.

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From the abyss to the afterglow: On the practice of vibrant contemplation as a mode of artistic research

Luiz Zanotello

Through a form of critical autoethnography, this study diffracts aspects of the author’s artistic practice through the intimate process of mourning to delineate a particular mode of knowledge production within artistic research that queers the relationship between the inside and outside of epistemic and ontological perspectives. The first section considers the abyss as a figure between grief, the unknown, and modes of knowledge production within artistic research.

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n-fach-Belichtungen – Non-Photographie, Materialismus der Begegnung, Bilder ohne Objekte

Stefan Paulus

In Doppel- oder Mehrfachbelichtung bergen die zufälligen Vermischungen von unterschiedlichen Orten und Zeiten auf einem Photo die Möglichkeit, Unbekanntes, Unbewusstes aufzuspüren, Spekulationen über Zufall, Leere und Unendlichkeit anzustellen oder Immanenz zu erfahren. Dieser Artikel begibt sich mit dem Konzept der Non-Photographie von F. Laruelle, des aleatorischen Materialismus von L. Althusser sowie den immanenzphilosophischen Überlegungen von G. Deleuze und F. Guattari auf die Spuren einer Ontologie resp.

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Your Digital Graveyard: Sound, Toilets and Participatory Post-Internet Practice in Scrape Elegy

Gabby Bush and Monica Lim

Scrape Elegy is a participatory multimedia art installation designed as a critical exploration of our presence on and engagement with social media. The work uses sound, a physical installation in the form of a pink public toilet, and participatory practice through visitors’ Instagram accounts. It joins the postmodern art procession of toilet-based installations and plays on the aesthetics of the banal (Maffesoli 1999) as a critique of society, much like such works as Maurizio Cattelan’s America (2016) and Gelitin’s Locus Focus (2004).

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Recentemente fui contatado por um autor que me interrogou sobre a preferência estilística do periódico. O JAR prefere layouts não-lineares? Se damos preferência às mídias que abrem automaticamente quando acessamos a página? Se preferimos o uso da primeira pessoa do singular na escrita? Minha resposta a essas perguntas foi a de sempre: "Não, não esperamos qualquer particularidade quanto `as escolhas formais.

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Performing with Sonic Tools. An approach to designing and analysing new instruments

Gaute Barlindhaug

In recent decades, digital technology has accelerated the development of new musical instruments, not only establishing new techniques for creating sound but also enabling new performance practices. From the perspective of the performer, this has significantly broadened their possibility to express themselves, but through earlier experimentations it has become clear to me that audiences have problem comprehend such use of new musical instruments.

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Running Freight on the River. A Clean Cargo Prefiguration

Tim Boykett & Tina Auer

We are interested in exploring the types of futures that are preferable for us all. Discussions of preferable futures can be made difficult by a lack of understanding of the lived experience of that possible future. We like to think that some wise person once said: “I hear futures and I forget. I see futures and I remember. I do futures and I understand.” In order to explore scenarios of possible futures, we thus look into experiential modalities. This exposition examines our Danube Clean Cargo project.

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The Making of 'Commotion'

Sara Pinheiro

“Commotion” is a fixed media multichannel composition that revolved around the principles of minimalist music. This exposition aims at understanding these principles while it tries to place the process of composing the piece within the common premises of artistic research. Due to the nature of its context, this approach includes also theories of reception - mostly by exploring themes such as intentionality, interpretation and representation.

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TroublingGAN: generated visual ambiguity as a speculative alternative to photojournalism

Lenka Hámošová & Pavol Rusnák

This exposition documents artistic research that engages with generative neural networks and artificial intelligence-driven visual synthesis, the goal being to challenge the limits of the research and question the value of the generated visual outcomes. We present here our experiment with a customised StyleGAN model. In contrast to its utilisation by computer scientists, it has been trained on a heterogeneous dataset, voluntarily exposing the generative neural network to failure while focusing on the unexpected moments of surprise that arise from such a process.

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[text]uring: writing through fashion for a new literacies dissertation

Rachel Kaminski Sanders

The term 'literacy' encompasses reading and writing practices, each with distinct meanings and histories. Scholars define individuals as 'literate' or 'illiterate' based on these practices, a point not to be taken lightly. New literacies studies have expanded literacy from print to encompass all forms of meaning-making, leading to an expansion of associated terminology. In American higher education, despite the expanded meanings of terms like 'writing' and 'text,' the term 'research' remains dominated by written language, even within dedicated disciplines (Coiro et al.

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Recentemente o JAR atualizou o formulário de avaliação dos pareceristas após anos sem qualquer modificação. Tanto o anterior quanto o novo formulário consistem em uma lista de questões que convergem para uma secção dedicada à conclusão, onde são definidas as reformulações sugeridas e necessárias, como também onde há uma escala de avaliação a ser preenchida.

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CRITICAL CONFABULATIONS – Corresponding Practices and Mappings

Jim Harold & Alex Hale

This exposition is based on an archaeological survey in the landscapes around Kilmartin Glen, Argyll and Bute, western Scotland, and references digital datasets – archaeological reference points –alongside the acts (enactments) of field walking, photography, drawing and poetry – experiences and representational discourses – to consider how land and landscapes may be read as dynamic palimpsestic and multi-dimensional fields of entanglement.

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Heterotopia of the Practice Room: Casting and Breaking the Illusion of Tristan Murail’s Tellur for Solo Guitar

Maarten Stragier

A combination of highly unusual extended playing techniques with open intabulated notation makes the solo guitar work Tellur altogether unique in Tristan Murail’s catalogue. When placed in the broader discursive context of Murail’s compositional philosophy, this unique configuration of elements causes a quandary. The composer aims to integrate “the totality of sonic phenomena” into his compositional language, and within this context he maintains a traditional view of musical authorship.

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La resistencia de las piedras

Alejandra Reyero & Maia Navas

La propuesta explora las potencialidades de la investigación crítica experimental, acudiendo a prácticas mediales - materiales de contramemoria frente a tecnologías de control históricas y contemporáneas. Se trata de un ensayo sobre restos de imágenes, sonidos y textos que formaron parte del proceso de investigación del cortometraje Enviado para falsear (Maia Navas - 2021).

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The Plane of Cicadas: On the Possibility of Making Kin through Musicking

Mathew Klotz

This autoethnographic exposition details a short series of musicking encounters aimed at making kin in a rainforest-covered mountain on unceded Djiru Country on the east coast of Australia. Each encounter consisted of a short hike and a discrete musical encounter with local subjectivities. The inquiry considers the place of the walking in the musicking, and my joint response-ability with my saxophone (or the ways in which we apprehend and respond to other subjectivities) in each encounter.

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We Are Public Space: Bodies and Minds in Post-pandemic Cities

Markéta Kinterová

The project aims to pay heightened attention to public spaces in cities on several levels. The first follows the trend of newly developed privately owned public spaces (known as POPS), which establish a precedent for how corporations and cities define public space and what they prioritize within it. A clear focus on people as consumers – rather than citizens – have several effects, including strict restrictions, the creation of societies of control (Deleuze 1992: 3), and various forms of often indirect exclusion of certain groups of inhabitants.

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Exposições são objetos imaginários. Até mesmo quando são criadas fisicamente, por exemplo, no computador ao preparar a submissão para o JAR, apenas funcionam quando os elementos que compõem o conjunto se apresentam juntos de uma forma particular. Em suas particularidades, cada elemento pode oferecer inúmeras entradas e significações, mas numa específica constelação exposicional dá suporte à imagem, compreensão  ou sentido, até mesmo, se diferenciando do que cada elemento individualmente oferece. Parece que geralmente objetos estéticos possuem este tipo de qualidade.

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Building upon Ruins – Interweaving Metaphors

Joanna Magierecka

Does the complexity of a work of art, composed of diverging narratives, present a possibility to connect to what we do not grasp? In this exposition I present interweaving as a compositional technique and dramaturgical strategy, through aspects of the creative process connected to and elements of three installations – part of a series called Ruins. The installations combine different aspects of storytelling, participatory strategies, media, and forms of expression.

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Documenting Sounds in Urban Places: Belfast During Covid-19 Lockdowns 1 and 2

Georgios Varoutsos

Government-regulated business closures, social distancing from people, and stay-at-home orders emptied the urban environment of the presence of people. This effectively created new sonic relationships between natural and urbanised sounds within our built society. As Covid-19 instilled a state of abandonment from our urban spaces with each variation of lockdowns, there was an opportunity to document these changes through a sonic-journalistic approach.

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Fractured Photography

Hilde Hovland Honerud and Jon Hovland Honerud

Is it possible to communicate through photography about people in distress? Through this exposition we approach such issues as media imagery and image fatigue, photography of ‘the other’, the privileged position, significant encounters, and reciprocity. We also show how commitment to social issues may relate to such an artistic process as both starting point and outcome.

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Object theatre exercises unfolding human-object relations in participatory design processes

Merja Ryöppy

This research exposition presents practical object theatre exercises and investigates how these exercises may enhance the designer’s practice to work with objects in participatory design projects. The study was set up in a theatre-design laboratory in collaboration with researcher and lecturer Sean Myatt from Nottingham Trent University and an international cohort of three design graduates with multidisciplinary backgrounds in design, communication, and social work.

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On the Indeterminate Training Technologies of a Reconstructed Bauhaus Choreographer. A Research Practice Between Speculative Historiography, Architectural Invention, and Performative Co-enactment

Thomas Pearce

This exposition proposes a method of artistic research that uses (and disobediently misuses) techniques of reconstruction as a mode of performative, artistic, and architectural invention. Our speculative notion of reconstruction challenges inherited disciplinary notions of historiography and simultaneously functions as a propositional and generative tool. The exposition revolves around the discussion of a research and performance project entitled Jakob K., which reconstructs the works of fictional Bauhaus choreographer and gymnastics teacher Jakob Klenke (1874–1941).

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Story in motion: creative collaborations on Tłı̨chǫ lands

Adolfo Ruiz and Tony Rabesca

This exposition describes a creative collaboration in the self-governed Tłı̨chǫ region of Canada’s Northwest Territories. As part of this collaboration, Indigenous research methods and participatory experiences facilitated a process by which regional oral history was visualised and translated into animation. As a long-term project, this research was based on relationships through which a non-Indigenous researcher was able to learn and exchange knowledge with elders and youth from the region.

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