SAR Newsletter Autumn 2018

 

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NOVEMBER 2018

 

  1. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: SAR CONFERENCE 2019
  2. SAR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS
  3. THE SAR ACADEMY REPORT
  4. PLYMOUTH CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
  5. REPORT FROM FUNDING AGENCY MEETING FALL 2018
  6. SAR ANNUAL PRIZE FOR BEST RC EXPOSITION 2018

The Executive Board of SAR is sending this newsletter to inform you about recent and upcoming events: Enjoy!

  1. CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: SAR CONFERENCE 2019

The 10th SAR conference is organized by the Society for Artistic Research and the Zurich University of the Arts. It takes place at ZHdK in Zurich, March 21-23, 2019.

The call for contributions for the 10th SAR Conference on Artistic Research is now open. Deadline for submitting proposals is November 30, 2018. To submit your proposal please visit: https://sar2019.zhdk.ch/

Conference vision:

The 10th SAR conference is not guided by one theme, but organized around three topics and two types of session formats for input and discussion. This format puts the manifoldness of artistic research practices at the centre of the conference. The three topics are Productive Gaps, Enhanced Dissemination Formats, and Inspiring Failures, and contributions are invited in short and long formats (see the ‘Call for Contributions’ for details). A keynote presentation will be delivered for each of the three topics. SAR encourages individual artists/researchers and research groups, doctoral candidates, postdocs, senior researchers and professors to submit for this conference!

The three topics and two formats available for input into sessions aim to engage individual researchers and collaborative groups alike. We encourage researchers to choose the right format for their contribution at proposal stage and to think about the questions, aspects, and problematics they wish to discuss and dispute in the time available for discussion in each session. The conference has a particular emphasis on the development and use of the time available for discussion within sessions.

Call for Contributions:

Proposals for the conference should address one of the three topics (Productive Gaps, Enhanced Dissemination Formats, Inspiring Failures) and be submitted to one of the two session formats (short or long format: 20 or 90 minutes). Please be aware that the main criteria of the conference are not to have a classic ‘presentation’ followed by Q&A, but an input and a discussion/debate/dispute about some crucial aspects of the respective research project.

Length of Sessions

All sessions will last 90 minutes in total irrespective of being in short or long format. The short format will have four contributions in one session. The long format will have one contribution per session_._

Structure of the short format (4x20 minutes)

The short format is divided into 10 minutes input, followed by 10 minutes discussion per contribution with four presentations per session. The discussions will take place either after each individual presentation, or after all four (depending on the subjects covered).

Structure of the long format (90 minutes)

The long format may be more flexibly handled according to the needs, style and delivery of the presentation (e.g. performance, film projection, interdisciplinary workshop format, etc.). The maximum time given to delivery should not exceed 45 minutes, and the discussion should take up the remaining time. This format is particularly appropriate for group inputs, but individuals may also apply.

Requirements

Language of the conference

English

Review process

All proposals are peer reviewed by two members of the conference committee.

The conference committee consists of:

Deadline for Submissions

November 30th, 2018.

Access to the online submission form

Online submission form here

  1. SAR SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS

SAR is launching a new initiative called the SAR Special Interest Groups SIG and is seeking proposals. These groups will support activities and exchange amongst both SAR members and invited non-members working in artistic research. Group members should include minimum of three participants, with the possibility for new participants to be added included annually. The groups have the responsibility of reporting their activities in the SAR newsletter. In collaboration with the host of the annual SAR conference, the executive board may offer special interest groups a venue to meet prior to the event opening. By way of suggestions the special interest groups might address the following themes: European funding, assessment criteria, artistic research and impact, artistic research and ethics, artistic research and doctoral programmes, artistic research and new materialism, artistic research and impact, artistic research and film.

Further information and instructions on establishing a special interest group will be announced via SAR Announcements in the Research Catalogue. The deadline for proposing a new special interest group to convene at the 10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research in Zurich on March 21-23, 2019, is December 10, 2018.

  1. REPORT FROM SAR ACADEMY SPRING 2019

    The Executive Board convened a SAR Academy that addressed the themes of epistemology, artefacts, methodologies and languages in artistic research in Barcelona on March 14–16, 2018. Emma Cocker and Nikolaus Gansterer compiled an exposition documenting the presentations and discussions of this event called Documenting the Academy: Diagrams and Field-Notes, available at https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/481105/481106.

  2. PLYMOUTH CONFERENCE PROCEEDINSGS

The proceedings of the 9th SAR International Conference, ARTISTIC RESEARCH WILL EAT ITSELF, University of Plymouth, April 11th-13th, 2018 are now available at https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/512748/512749.

  1. REPORT FROM FUNDING AGENCY MEETING FALL 2018

The second expert meeting arranged by SAR of Funding Agencies took place at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo on September 20–21, 2018. The aim of the gathering was to bring together colleagues working on funding schemes for organisations active in the field of art and research funding. Attendees shared interests and experiences with a focus on recent developments in the context of the different agencies they represented. The meeting began with a presentation by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (NARP), which showcased successful funded projects. These included Segunda Vez, SYNSMASKINEN: 8 Fields of Contemporary Crisis, Wheels within Wheels, Goodbye Intuition and Extended Composition. The director of NARP, Geir Strøm, and the chair of the board of NARP, Cecile Broch Knudsen, additionally initiated an exchange concerning evaluation of research schemes. They discussed previous criteria and outcomes of evaluation used by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. The Swedish Research Council, represented by Senior lecturer Niclas Östlind, addressed Open Access and data management plans and additionally considered the relationship art has within issues of management. The impact of artistic research was a topic presented by the SAR Executive Board member Alexander Damianisch. The assessment of impact was scrutinized and it was related to measurement valorization, societal challenges, cross-disciplinarily outputs, creative industry, the humanities, profit outside the academic context and accountability. Representatives from the following institutions participated in the meeting: Austrian Science Fund, Norwegian Artistic Research Programme, Swedish Research Council, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research. As a new participant of the funding agencies group a representative from the Schering Stiftung, Berlin, was welcomed.

  1. SAR ANNUAL PRIZE FOR BEST RC EXPOSITION 2018

The Executive Board of SAR announces the Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2018. The prize aims to foster and encourage innovative, experimental new formats of publications and on the other hand to make more internationally visible the qualities of artistic research artefacts.

The current jury that was appointed by the Executive Board and consists of Michael Schwab (editor-in-chief of the Editorial Board of the Journal for Artistic Research), Karst de Jong (member of Research Catalogue (RC) Portal Partners) and Leena Rouhiainen (chair, member of the SAR Executive Board).

Facts and figures

Deadline for submission: Jan 31, 2019.

Publication period of submission: Jan 1, 2018 – Dec 31, 2018.

Conditions: The publication/exposition must have been published (not only shared) on the RC catalogue platform. The language used in the exposition must be English. Anyone is invited to make a submission – this must be identified by the metadata of the exposition: Author(s), Title, Research Catalogue URL (date)

https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/xxxxx/xxxxx

Address for submissions: rc.prize@societyforartisticresearch.org.

Prize Award: 500€

Award Ceremony: SAR International Conference, March 21–23, 2019, Zurich.

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