[-empyre-] Research in Practice, week two, January 14-20

[BIGGS Simon]

The second week of our discussion on Research in Practice begins. I would like to thank our invited discussants during week one, Maria Grade Godinho, Sue Hawksley, Donna Leishman and Bronwyn Platten, who have kicked the discussion off with reflections on their experiences as artists, PhD students and researchers. I hope that they will sustain their engagement with the debate as it develops.

Donna has proposed a short taxonomy for describing the various conditions that the artist-researcher might find themselves occupying, with which each of the discussants found some resonance:
Dr But_I_am_an_artist
Dr I_was_an_artist_now_I_am_a_practitioner
Dr I_am_a_researcher_nolonger _an_artist
and
Dr Intersitial_somewhere_between

This week's guests might also find these useful criteria - or choose to outline alternate models or take the debate in other directions.

We would like to welcome the invited discussants for week two, January 14-20. They are:

Cécile Chevalier is a French artist and practice-based doctoral student (2009-2013) at the University of Sussex. Cécile works with lens-based media placed in tangible and embodied interactive installation works. Her work has been shown in festivals and exhibitions across the UK and she has contributed to various media research projects. Her research and art work focus on memory, reminiscence & technology. Cécile also teaches animation, photography and digital media at Sussex.

Laura Cinti is an artist working with biology and co-director of C-LAB, an art-science collective. Recent activities include exhibiting living synthetic biology artworks at Techfest 2012 (Mumbai) and curating public art exhibitions for the EU funded 'European Public Art Centre' (2010-2012). Her artworks have been presented and exhibited internationally. Laura has a PhD from UCL (Slade School of Fine Art/UCL Centre of Biomedical Imaging), a Masters in Interactive Media: Critical Theory & Practice (Distinction) from Goldsmiths College and BA (Hons) Fine Art (First Class) from University of Hertfordshire. Recently she was awarded the 'Designers & Artists 4 Genomics Award' (2012-2013).

Talan Memmott is a Lecturer in Digital Culture at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden. He holds an MFA in Literary Arts/Electronic Writing from Brown University and a PhD in Interaction Design from Malmö University. Memmott is a practicing artist, an academic, and a media theorist. His creative work has been presented at numerous conferences and festivals, and been the subject of a number of critical articles and books. He is currently working on a digital performance piece titled Huckleberry Finnegans Wake. Memmott is Vice President of the Electronic Literature Organization and during 2010-2013 an investigator on the European research project ELMCIP.

Maria Mencía is a media artist-researcher and Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at Kingston University, London, UK. Her doctoral research (2000-2003) in Digital Poetry and Art was one of the first in the field. Mencía’s research is at the intersection of language, art and digital technology. It explores the area of the 'in-between' the visual, the aural and the semantic by experimenting with the digital medium with the aim of engaging the reader/viewer/user in an experience of shifting ‘in’ and ‘out’ of language by looking ‘at’ and looking ‘through’ transparent and abstract landscapes of text and linguistic soundscapes. It draws from avant-garde poetics, exploring digital media grammars. It is trans-disciplinary bringing together different cultural, artistic and literary traditions such as: linguistics, fine art, visual, concrete and sound poetry. http://www.mariamencia.com/

Anne Sarah Le Meur (France) received her Ph.D. in Aesthetics, Science and Technology of Arts in 1999 from Paris 8 University. Both her theoretical (Ph.D, articles) and practical research dealt with the influence of 3D programming languages on bodily expression/representation. Her works play with 3D visual 'unconventions' and the heritage of abstract painting. This work includes still images, recorded and generative animations and real-time performances. Her latest work is an interactive installation based on the viewer's desire to perceive (Interface-Z, LeCube, ZKM residency). After lecturing at the University-Bauhaus-Weimar (1995-1997), Germany, she has been Assistant Professor for the Arts Department, Paris 1 University Pantheon-Sorbonne, since 2000.http://aslemeur.free.fr/index_eng.htm



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