[-empyre-] Research in Practice, week three, January 21-28

[Simon Biggs]

The third and last week of our discussion on Research in Practice begins. I would like to thank our invited discussants during week two, Cécile Chevalier, Laura Cinti, Talan Memmott, Maria Mencía and Anne Sarah Le Meur, as well as everyone who has contributed to the week's debate as it has developed into new terrain, considering how creative practitioners can also be PhD students and academic researchers. Adrian Miles and Johannes Birringer's emails have been especially insightful as questions concerning difference in value between creative practice and research have been debated. We hope that all the participants will sustain their engagement as the discussion develops further.

We would like to welcome the invited discussants for week three, the last week of our discussion, January 21-28. They are:

Keith Armstrong has specialised for 18 years in collaborative, hybrid, new media works with an emphasis on innovative performance forms, site-specific electronic arts, networked interactive installations, alternative interfaces, public arts practices and art-science collaborations. His ongoing research focuses on how scientific and philosophical ecologies can both influence and direct the design and conception of networked, interactive media artworks. Keith's artworks have been shown and profiled extensively both in Australia and overseas and he has been the recipient of numerous grants from the public and private sectors. His work Intimate Transactions (with the Transmute Collective) is held in the permamnent collection of ZKM. He was formerly an Australia Council New Media Arts Fellow, a doctoral and Postdoctoral New Media Fellow at QUT's Creative Industries Faculty and a lead researcher at the ACID Australasian Cooperative Research Centre for Interaction Design. He is currently a part-time Senior Research Fellow at Queensland University of Technology Brisbane, and a practicing freelance new media artist. 

Wendy Kirkup is an artist and PHD candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Her past work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, including Tate Modern, London, ZKM, Karlsruhe Germany and Princeton University Art Museum, USA. Her current PHD study investigates, through the methods and methodologies of drawing and filmmaking, notions of place-making, considered as a set of temporal, material and sensual practices.

Mike Leggett has been working with moving image across the institutions of art, education and television since the late-60s. He has film and video work in archives and collections in Europe, Australia, North and South America and has curated exhibitions of interactive multimedia, including for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney. He writes and lectures about computer mediated art, contributes regularly to journals (Leonardo; Continuum) and magazines (RealTime, World Art). He has a PhD from the Creativity & Cognition Studios, University of Technology Sydney and an MFA from the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales and is currently a Fellow in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong.

Daniela Alina Plewe received a PhD from the Sorbonne on a thesis introducing the concept of “Transactional Arts” referring to art, where interactions become transactions ( http://transactional-arts.com ). Previously she acquired a B.A. in Philosophy (Aesthetics, Philosophy of Science, Artificial Intelligence) and a M.A. in Experimental Media Design from the University of Arts, Berlin. Since 1992 she developed media art projects which were internationally exhibited and have won several awards. Exhibitions and collaborations include MIT Media Lab, Harvard Law Lab, Ars Electronica, Canon Art Lab Tokyo, ZKM Karlsruhe, University of California LA, School of Visual Arts NY, ISEA, Transmediale, ACM Multimedia, Fraunhofer Institute and others. In 2010 she was nominated for the Transmediale Vilem Flusser Theory Award.

Miguel Santos is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher, born in Portugal and living somewhere out there. He is interested in intersecting perspectives in Fine Arts, Philosophy and Cognitive Science and employs those findings in the production of installations, videos and photographic works that have been exhibited across Europe. In 2011, he received a PhD in Fine Arts from Sheffield Hallam University for the research project: ‘Poetics of the Interface: Creating Works of Art that Engage in Self-Reflection’. The project's main objective was to understand the value of artists employing noise (disturbances) in the formulation of interfaces (i.e. films, videos, photographs, sculptures, etc.) and its implications for the observer’s interpretation.



Simon Biggs
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