Reading out loud
(2023)
author(s): Juliane Zelwies
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
English:
With the research project Reading out loud I tried to draw attention to a specific blind spot. There is a strong tradition in the visual arts of introspection, critique and performative behaviour.
While hierarchies, dependencies and structures of the institutional apparatus (often represented as The Museum or The Gallery) have been frequently critiqued and examined by visual artists as part of their practice, artists seldom turn their gaze on themselves as propagators and contributors of cultural traditions within the increasingly globalised art world(s).
During my research, I have explored and developed approaches to describe, analyse and understand the artist ́s habitus (i.e. beliefs, codes and behaviour) that I and my colleagues express in professional and informal settings. In particular I have been interested in examining situations in which artists seem to violate unwritten rules or conventions and their peers ́ response to such violations.
The project resulted in a series of posters, video works, an artist book and a set of public readings. While the poster series Words of Mouth is based on quotes which I collected at various informal occasions from my peers and other art professionals, the video OFF THE RECORD examines the identity artists have of themselves and their working environment more methodically. The artist book artistic research has been written in the form of a script from my memories of a summer academy for artistic research that was held on the island of Utøya. Other versions of the text have been presented publicly, providing an insight into the struggle with the text and the changes and edits it went through before eventually becoming a work of fiction.
Norsk:
Med forskningsprosjektet Reading out loud prøver jeg å rette oppmerksomheten mot en bestemt blindsone. Det er en sterk tradisjon i billedkunsten for introspeksjon, kritikk og performativ atferd. Mens hierarkier, avhengigheter og strukturer i det institusjonelle apparatet (ofte representert av Museet eller Galleriet) ofte har blitt kritisert og undersøkt av billedkunstnere som en del av deres praksis, vender kunstnere sjelden blikket mot seg selv som formidlere og bidragsytere av kulturelle tradisjoner innenfor den stadig mer globaliserte kunstverdenen(e).
I løpet av min forskning har jeg utforsket og utviklet tilnærminger for å beskrive, analysere og forstå kunstnerens habitus (dvs. tro, koder og atferd) som jeg og mine kolleger uttrykker i profesjonelle og uformelle omgivelser. Spesielt har jeg vært interessert i å undersøke situasjoner der kunstnere synes å bryte uskrevne regler eller konvensjoner og deres fagfellers respons på slike brudd.
Prosjektet resulterte i en serie plakater, videoverk, en artist book og et sett med offentlige opplesninger. Plakatserien Words of Mouth baserer seg på sitater jeg har samlet ved ulike uformelle (kunst)situasjoner fra det profesjonelle kunstfeltet. Videoarbeidet OFF THE RECORD er en mer metodisk undersøkelse av forståelsen kunstnere har av seg selv, sin kunstneridentitet og sitt arbeidsmiljø. Kunstboken med tittelen artistic research er skrevet i form av et manus basert på mine minner om et sommerakademi for kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid som ble holdt på Utøya. Andre versjoner av teksten har blitt presentert offentlig, noe som gir et innblikk i kampen med teksten; endringene og redigeringene den gikk igjennom før den til slutt ble et skjønnlitterært verk.
Creative Processes in Irish traditional music: a bodhrán-playing perspective
(2023)
author(s): Robert Brian Sheehan
published in: Research Catalogue
This is the web-based written component of an arts practice research project carried out from May to August of 2022 as part of the MA Irish Music Studies programme at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance (IWAMD) at the University of Limerick. The project set out to explore the broad topic of creativity within Irish traditional music through the embodied means of my own bodhrán playing. In particular, I set out to see to what extent the creative process of switching between ways of gripping the bodhrán stick (“grip switching”) could be embodied effectively in my bodhrán playing. As well as this written component, which contains multimedia elements such as video and music notation, this project is also presented as a thirty minute performance of traditional Irish music where I accompany an accordion player to demonstrate and explain some of the findings of my research.
How can autonomy and active learning be stimulated in a blended oboe class program?
(2023)
author(s): Irma Kort
published in: KC Research Portal
This research is an exploration into stimulating autonomy and active learning in musical tuition. Through an explorative journey in my teaching practice I developed tools to increase autonomy, active learning and self-regulation in students, using the self-determination theory, new learning and self-regulation as the main learning theories to find answers to my research question. In my lesson practice students rarely come in as active-, self-directing autonomous learners. However, literature and experiences of other teachers, show us that students – even beginners – can learn to become active, self-directed learners. It is not common practice yet to implement these theories in music classes. This is why I would like to create a toolkit and a user manual for teachers that would like to incorporate autonomy supportive teaching and self-regulation in their practices. I will also create a blueprint to inspire working with blended programs in music classes. A flipped classroom can trigger an ongoing learning process in the week, it can aid students in their practice and it is a tool to reflect on teaching practices, teaching styles and programs.
The research took place in the BASIS oboe classes at the School for Young Talent, in The Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. There were 5 beginning oboe players, in the age group of 7 till 13 years.
I used a combination of design and action research. With the design research I developed the online learning space and the tools for active learning and self-regulation. With action research I reflected on my teaching, students learning, development and well-being and the use of the tools.
It was possible to use learning theories in different ways. I used tables and frameworks to reflect on my teaching, I used existing tools, I tailored tools to the age group of my students and I combined aspects of active learning and self-regulation. After three design cycles there is a blueprint of a toolkit that can be used in a flexible way and there is a blueprint for blended learning in instrumental music classes. The changes in my teaching style, the implementation of the learning theories and the reflections on the program using the online environment had a great impact on the teacher – student dialogue, the content of my lessons and the overview of the program. In students I saw an increase in motivation, autonomy and effectiveness. They are very engaged young learners, they learned to choose repertoire and strategies in their practice, they are able to plan, practice and reflect on their process and they have covered more repertoire and technique over the last year in comparison to the year before. They started sharing their music outside of classes and started thinking about their own goals in their oboe practice.
A List of Greek composers with works for the oboe or for the instruments of the oboe family (list - under update)
(2023)
author(s): Christos Tsogias-Razakov
published in: Research Catalogue
During doctoral research at the University of Macedonia (Thessaloniki - Greece), in collaboration with the Ionian University (Corfu - Greece), the Ph.D. thesis under the title "Works for Oboe by Greek Composers: Public Performance and Recording, Cataloguing, Indexing" have been included in the catalogue of works of the oboe family of instruments (during the third academic year - January 2023) four hundred and thirty-one works (431) in total. In the following list (under progress) are published, for the first time, the names of the Greek composers in alphabetical order who composed musical works for the oboe family of instruments.
ΟΝΟΜΑΤΕΠΩΝΥΜΑ ΕΛΛΗΝΩΝ ΣΥΝΘΕΤΩΝ ΜΕ ΈΡΓΑ ΓΙΑ ΌΜΠΟΕ Ή ΤΗΣ ΟΙΚΟΓΕΝΕΙΑΣ ΟΡΓΑΝΩΝ (ΑΡΧΙΚΗ ΛΙΣΤΑ ΥΠΌ ΑΝΑΝΕΩΣΗ)
(2023)
author(s): Christos Tsogias-Razakov - Χρήστος Τσόγιας-Ραζάκοβ
published in: Research Catalogue
Κατά την διάρκεια της εκπόνησης της διδακτορικής διατριβής στο Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας (Θεσσαλονίκη), σε συνεργασία με το Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο (Κέρκυρα), με τίτλο “Έργα Ελλήνων συνθετών για όμποε: δημόσια εκτέλεση και ηχογράφηση, καταγραφή, ευρετηρίαση”. Έχουν συμπεριληφθεί στον κατάλογο έργων της οικογένειας οργάνων του όμποε (κατά την διάρκεια του τρίτου ακαδημαϊκού έτους - Ιανουάριος 2023), συνολικά τετρακόσια είκοσι-οκτώ έργα (428). Στην ακόλουθη αρχική λίστα, σημειώνονται τα ονοματεπώνυμα των Ελλήνων συνθετών σε αλφαβητική σειρά, που συνέθεσαν μουσικά έργα για την οικογένεια οργάνων του όμποε.
Spotting A Tree From A Pixel (With Remote Sensing Researchers)
(2022)
author(s): Sheung Yiu
published in: Journal for Artistic Research
This exposition contemplates the collaboration between me, a photographer, and remote sensing researchers from the Department of Geoinformatics at Aalto University, in an ongoing artistic research collaboration called Ground Truth. Ground Truth is a photography project about ‘seeing something when there’s nothing there’. Based in the research group’s initial intent to overcome the spatial resolution limits of satellite imagery, the project now investigates new imaging techniques such as computational photography and hyperspectral imaging of forests, while also referencing photography’s love affair with natural landscapes. Such a comparative approach to natural photography has allowed me to offer a vision that typically escapes human sight perception.
I open this auto-theoretical text with a personal experience, namely being on a field trip with remote sensing scientist Daniel Schraik. I use this moment to, among other things, articulate my thoughts on the construction of the ‘real’ in different disciplines. I then contemplate the body of interviews and field trips that became a two-year-long interdisciplinary dialogue, and also brought together two distinct ways of looking at the forest: one symbolized by the camera, another by the terrestrial laser scanner. Inspired by remote sensing concepts such as ground truth and the inverse problem, I have come to examine photography through a new analytical framework.
In everyday language, the term ‘ground truth’ refers, in part, to a first-hand experience. In our project, it makes sense, then, that Ground Truth connotes the documentary tradition and the act of witnessing. In the language of science, however, and specifically in remote sensing as a field, ground truth means something different. It refers to data collected on-site, which can then be used to calibrate, to build models, to predict, to interpret, and to decipher information from images; in this case, satellite images. Similarly, our interdisciplinary collaboration functions on another operational layer of photography beneath the immediately visible, one that illustrates an expanded notion of photography across contemporary discourse. Ground Truth interweaves archival imagery, documentary photography, experiment dataset, 3D digital art and conceptual photography. The constellation of employed elements contrasts the representational approaches of drawing and photography with the data-oriented and algorithmic approaches of computer-aided seeing. The two modes together allow for a parallel reading of the forest — one that contextualizes different epistemological regimes that allow for new configurations of the relationship between image and reality.