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

[Phi Shu]

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> What subject area did you do your doctorate in? Was it music or music
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yes.


> As we discussed previously, in the domain of music the purely creative
> practice based PhD is well established, with the score and its performance
> usually sufficient as submission.
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not only score based, fixed media (audio) portfolios are permissible in
exactly the same fashion.


> As yet I've not encountered this model in the visual arts, perhaps because
> in that realm it is usual that the thing is the thing is the thing - there
> is no score. That said, in my own field, where the work is "written" in a
> meta language (computer code), there is effectively a score for the work -
> a score that is interpreted (by a machine) and performed.
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I would absolutely agree with this.


> In the domain of computer music, where part of my training occurred, the
> computer programme is the score. So, why not in the visual domain?
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Why not indeed? Perhaps it has to do with the amount of "conceptual" work
academies are producing.


> And then we have areas like electronic literature, where there is a score
> (programme) that when performed creates texts - where is the main outcome
> here? The text or the programme? Are both submissable - or neither?
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Again, absolutely, they should count as valid outputs.


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> Given the prevalence of digital technologies in the creative arts, of all
> kinds, and the new forms of authorship (writing and meta-writing) that they
> permit it is probably time we completely rethought where the artefact or
> creative work is and how that is critically situated, within and around the
> work. The current model of the PhD is inadequate to that task.
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This is most certainly the case from what I have seen



> I'd like to think there's an opportunity here...
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That's up to the people who are positioned high enough up the academic
ladder to push for change, but will that really happen? It's only if
embedded practitioners make it an agenda and work together to bring about
change.




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