SAR Newsletter April 2025

 

16th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research - Resonance - Programme

Have you had a chance to explore the Conference Programme yet?

Built in the Research Catalogue as an exposition, we are truly impressed with this year’s programme and conference pages thoughtfully designed and created by the conference team at i2ADS, Porto! We are pleased to share this format that reflects both the richness of the content and the care with which it has been curated.

Organised in collaboration with i2ADS—a leading research unit in art and design based at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto—the conference will take place at the Faculty of Engineering. The programme features over 55 sessions, including presentations and keynotes, offering a broad and nuanced view of current practices and discourses in artistic research.

The first day begins with meetings and presentations from the Special Interest Groups, followed by an Opening Performance, Keynote by Matthew Fuller, a Poster Session, and the Early Career Researchers Encounter before concluding with a Welcome Event at the Faculty of Fine Arts.

The second day opens with Artistic Research presentations, selected from over 300 submissions, followed by a Keynote by Yinka Esi Graves, further presentations and the Journal for Artistic Research sessions. The day ends with the conference dinner—an opportunity to continue conversations in a more informal setting.

The third and final day includes another round of Artistic Research presentations, a Keynote by Juliana Hodkinson, and the Plenary Session, which will include the announcement of this year’s Annual Prize for Excellent Research Catalogue Exposition! The conference will close with a celebratory round of farewell drinks.

We are truly looking forward to this year’s conference—both the depth of artistic research being shared and the chance to engage with so many colleagues, peers, and new voices in the Artistic Research community.

 

We cannot wait to welcome you all to Porto!

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First General Meeting of the COST Action Artistic Intelligence

On April 14–15, 2025, the First General Meeting of Artistic Intelligence – Responsiveness, Accessibility, Responsibility, Equity convened at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto. This hybrid event brought together a network of artists, researchers, and academics committed to advancing artistic and practice-based research in response to urgent societal challenges.

Keynotes featured SAR Executive Board Member Paulo Luís Almeida (Director i2ADS – Institute of Research in Art, Design and Society; Associate Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto), Ellen Røed (Professor, Film and Media; Vice Chancellor, Stockholm University of the Arts), SAR President Florian Schneider (Director, Institute for Creativity, University of Galway; PACESETTERS.EU Coordinator), SAR Executive Officer Johan A Haarberg, Franco Ripa di Meana (Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma; WP3 Lead, EAR), Ted Byfield (Co-founder, Open Syllabus; independent researcher, editor, and writer), and Chrysa Parkinson (Professor, dancer, performer; Project Leader, “Authorship, Ownership and Control”, Stockholm University of the Arts).

Talks explored themes such as authorship, research infrastructure, policy landscapes and the poetics of artistic doubt. Parallel working group sessions focused on four core areas: Adaptation Strategies, Collective Intelligences, Reference Frameworks, and Policy Making.

Learn more about Artistic Intelligence here.

Discover the event here.

Interested in participating in Artistic Intelligence? See more information here.

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Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grants Artistic Intelligence - Call for Applications

Last week, Artistic Intelligence also launched their first call for applications for Short-Term Scientific Mission (STSM) Grants. 

Short-term scientific missions (STSMs) allow members of the Artistic Intelligence Action to visit an institution or organisation in a different COST Member country than the country of affiliation, with the purpose of training, collaboration, and exchange of knowledge and expertise. 

Access all information and PDF guidelines here.

Or go to www.artisticintelligence.info to learn more.

About COST: 

COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) is a funding agency for research and innovation networks. Our Actions help connect research initiatives across Europe and enable scientists to grow their ideas by sharing them with their peers. This boosts their research, career and innovation.

This STSM call is based upon work from COST Action Artistic Intelligence - CA23158, supported by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology).

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Upcoming Seminar on RC for Teaching, Learning and Examination Purposes

Wednesday 21.05 – 15:00-16:30 CEST

All portal partners have the option to operate both a public and an internal portal on the RC. In this seminar we will present how some of our portal partners use the internal portal for teaching, learning and examination purposes, how expositions can be used for presenting outcomes of such activities to the international artistic research environment as well as how these activities can be managed by your local portal admin – including options for archiving of expositions delivered for examination purposes. 

We arranged a thematic seminar on this issue in February, but found that we have sufficient inputs to provide a second seminar on this on Wednesday 21.05. 

At this event there will be presentations from NTNU-Norwegian University of Science and Technology, ABAROMA-Rome Academy of Fine Arts and University of Music and Performing Arts, Graz.

Invitations to this event will be sent to all Portal Partners approximately two weeks ahead of the webinar.

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Journal for Artistic Research

 

 

Submissions Deadline Reminder, 31st of May 2025

We are welcoming submissions to the Journal for Artistic Research. The Journal publishes three issues a year and we accept submissions in Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and English. 

To be eligible to publish in Issue 38, submit your research through the Research Catalogue by the 31st of May 2025. 

For our guidelines on submitting to the Journal visit: https://jar-online.net/en/submissions

- and for advice on whether your research is suitable for JAR, contact the Managing Editor, Barnaby Drabble by using the web contact form: https://jar-online.net/#contact-form

 

JAR at the SAR conference in Porto

On Thursday, May 8, 15:45 - 17:00 a group of editors will give insights into the current developments of the journal. In the second part of the session, we will introduce our submission process leaving ample time to answer all practical questions, which can be asked in any of the languages that JAR supports.

 

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