SAR Newsletter March 2025

16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research - Resonance - Keynote Speakers Announcement

We are thrilled to be able to share with you the keynote speakers at the 16th  SAR International Conference on Artistic Research which will take place from 7 to 9 May 2025 at the University of Porto, Portugal.

Matthew Fuller

Matthew Fuller is a cultural theorist who works on art, technology, politics and aesthetics. His books include How to Sleep: The Art, Biology and Culture of Unconsciousness (Bloomsbury 2018), How to Be a Geek: Essays on the Culture of Software (Polity 2017), with Olga Goriunova, Bleak Joys: Aesthetics of Ecology and Impossibility (Minnesota 2019) and with Eyal Weizman, Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth (Verso 2021).

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Yinka Esi Graves 

Yinka Esi Graves is a British dance maker and flamenco artist. Her work excavates the links between flamenco and contemporary forms rooted in the African diaspora. 

With a long career in flamenco, she studied at the Amor de Dios dance school in Madrid and later in Seville with artists such as La Lupi, Andrés Marín, Yolanda Heredia and Juana Amaya. As a flamenco dancer she has accompanied renowned artists such as Remedios Amaya and Concha Buika. Graves' more recent work with dance makers and thinkers Nora Chipaumire and Dr Ama Wray have helped further define her work spanning from stage pieces to in situ site specific work, as a solo artist and collaborator.

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Juliana Hodkinson

Juliana Hodkinson's artistic practice with sonic materials and potentials spans social composition, works for object performance with instruments, through electroacoustics to orchestral, vocal and chamber music.
Her independent artistic research practice actively explores resonance, touch, assembly and assemblage, and intersubjective listener participation.

Juliana Hodkinson is associate professor in electronic and classical music composition at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus, and chair of the Danish Composers’ Society, as well as being a board member at music copyright collective management organisation Koda, and representing the latter two organisations in, respectively, the Nordic Composers’ Council and the International Council of Music Creators.

->  Read Juliana Hodkinson's full bio here <-

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The programme for the SAR 16th. International Conference is live

SAR is happy to announce that the Conference Programme is now live - please head over here to check it out and start planning your sessions. Besides keynotes and presentations, you’ll find the opening performance, Special Interest Groups, Poster Presentation, the Early Career Researchers Encounter, the Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition 2024 and more!

Conference Registration:
Register for the conference here

For questions, please contact: Sar2025@fba.up.pt

Deadline for Conference Registration: 10th April 2024

Remember to register before the deadline - We look forward to seeing you at the SAR Conference 2025!

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Early Career Researchers Encounter

The early career initiative by SAR responds to a need to connect artistic researchers within a community. The ECRs may have graduated from a programme, left their institutions, and are reorienting themselves towards new ways of carrying on their research.

We are interested in better understanding the needs and modes of connecting between early career researchers, and in conversation with you, we want to develop a way of communicating, presenting yourselves, and establishing a hub or home for such a network.

At the SAR 2025 conference in Porto, the SAR Executive Board proposes an informal space for encounters to collect voices of artistic researchers reaching or living that phase. The aim of the initiative is to provide a connective tissue supported by the resources of the society without imposing a fixed structure.

Sign up for the encounter and read more here.

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SAR’s Executive Officer Johan A. Haarberg keynote and workshop at the international seminar on Theories and Practices of Contemporary Artistic Research: A Transdisciplinary Approach

Brera Academy of Fine Arts held the international seminar Theories and practices of contemporary artistic research: a transdisciplinary approach, curated by Domenico Quaranta, at the Sala Napoleonica of the Brera Palace on March 18-19 2025.

The event marked the launch of project IartNET - an international platform for artistic research and cultural heritage in Higher Education in the Arts and Music, funded by NextGenerationEU and coordinated by Nicoletta Leonardi. 

Following the establishment of doctoral programs at Italian higher arts education institutions in 2024, the seminar addresses artistic research from a transdisciplinary perspective across different genres and media, responding to the need for discussions and exchange on ideas, methodologies, and practices of artistic research at an international level.

In the Closing Keynote, Johan A. Haarberg, Executive Officer of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR), discussed the challenges facing artistic research within the academic context and its overall acceptance as a valid part of knowledge production in Europe and beyond.

Haarberg also led a workshop on the Research Catalogue – SAR’s non-commercial, collaborative and publishing platform provided by SAR to artists and researchers.

Catch up on the live streaming and watch Haarberg’s keynote here: https://www.youtube.com/@iartnetpnrr 

For more information on the seminar and/or the workshop please write to: iartnet@fadbrera.edu.it. 

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RC Portal Partners Thematic Seminar

This seminar is part of the Portal Partners online Seminars, the registration link will be shared later this week through the portal partner basecamp.

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Advanced RC User Webinar 24.03 – Rewatch

In addition to our usual new user intro webinars, we are currently doing a more open session for advanced users of RC. We do not cover any topics discussed in the normal webinars. In this event, the RC Team – by Casper Schipper and Daniele Pozzi – provides an opportunity to deal with more advanced topics and uses of the exposition format.

Examples include using CSS, layering, embedding external elements, generating exposition content and interactivity in SVG graphics, but the specific topics discussed depend on participant input.

Portal Partners, and staff and students at their institution, can rewatch all RC Webinars. To rewatch, please contact your portal administrator.

We regularly organise RC user webinars for Institutional Members, Portal Partners and their staff and students, so keep an eye out for future invitations! 

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The JAR Network section, and Submissions Deadline Reminder

The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an international, online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal that disseminates artistic research from all disciplines. In its peer-reviewed section, it seeks to promote expositions, which aim to engage practice and demonstrate research. In addition to this, the Network section is a non-peer-reviewed space on the JAR website for discussion, reviews and opinion pieces relevant to artistic research and JAR’s community. It features reflections and book reviews.

New in the Network Section

This month we are republishing a historical document that makes for interesting reading. The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR): Draft Proposal , written by Michael Schwab, commissioned by Florian Dombois and funded by Y (Institute for Transdisciplinarity), Bern University of the Arts. 

The proposal was finalised in November 2009 and played a key role in the founding of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR), as publisher of the journal. Without any stable download link, we decided to make it available again:

Journal for Artistic Research (JAR): Draft Proposal (12/11/2009)  [EN] by Michael Schwab: https://doi.org/10.22501/jarnet.0078 

Upcoming Submissions Deadline

The next deadline for peer-reviewed submissions to JAR is May 31, 2025: https://jar-online.net/en/calls

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