The Sonic Beings Laboratory: children as artistic researchers weaving meanings of sound
(2026)
author(s): Jelizaveta Vovka, Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir, Wei-Ya Lin
published in: Research Catalogue
What questions emerge when children and adults engage in artistic research together, exploring sound, identity, and creativity as co-researchers? In this AR pilot project, a fourth-grade class at a Viennese elementary school, Campus Landstraße, together with three adult researchers, collaboratively shape an open-ended inquiry into the sonic.
This exploratory phase should lay the groundwork for a larger artistic research project. It focuses on how children and adults collaboratively shape the direction of inquiry: What questions related to sound matter to us? How do we, together, engage with sound as material, metaphor, and method? And how do the modes of questioning transform our understanding of what artistic research can become?
Guided by principles of Participatory Action Research and entangled sound-making, this pilot creates an open, flexible space, the Sonic Beings Laboratory, where research practices are not delivered or taught, but discovered in collaboration. It is a space where children and adults co-develop questions, sub-projects, and methods through relational and creative engagement.
As adult researchers and artists, we were not external observers but co-learners—creating alongside the children, responding to their sonic ideas, and reflecting on our own evolving practices. Our field notes, sketches, and interventions were not supplementary; they were integral to the research process, allowing us to trace how the project challenged our assumptions and shifted our ways of listening and making.
This pilot is not about finding answers. It is about staying with the questions that emerge through our shared inquiry, attending to how our research practice unfolds, and how all participants are changed through the process.
Amazing Patterns ▓█▋◣◣◢◢▋█▓
(2026)
author(s): Rozita Sophia Fogelman
published in: Research Catalogue
Amazing Patterns presents a practice-based investigation into pattern formation using ASCII and Unicode character systems as generative material. Developed within the broader research context of the ASCII Digital Design Museum (ADDM), founded in 2010, the project operates exclusively in live digital text environments under minimal computational constraints.
Treating text not as language but as material, the exposition examines how repetition, variation, and rule-based operations generate complex visual structures from simple symbolic elements. Through sustained, character-by-character construction, the works demonstrate scalability and structural coherence across graphic, textile, and architectural references.
Developed through human-authored, rule-based visual systems prior to contemporary AI image-generation tools, the project positions symbolic computing as a methodological precedent and sustainable exhibition model, emphasizing accessibility, durability, and long-term cultural preservation within web-native systems.
Text as Material: ASCII and Unicode Pattern Systems
(2026)
author(s): Rozita Fogelman
published in: Research Catalogue
This exposition presents a practice-based research investigation into pattern formation using ASCII and Unicode character systems as primary visual material. Working exclusively within live text environments, the project explores how complex visual and architectural structures emerge from rule-based constraints, repetition, and minimal computational resources. Treating text not as language but as material, the work examines generative logic, duration, and modularity as foundations for sustainable, post-material visual research.
Topographies of the obsolete
(2026)
author(s): Anne-Helen Mydland
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
Topographies of the Obsolete is an artistic research project conceived in 2012 by
University of Bergen Professors Neil Brownsword and Anne Helen Mydland,
in collaboration with six European HEI’s and the British
Ceramics Biennial.
Emerging through two phases (2012-15; 2015-2020) it has to date engaged
ninety-seven interdisciplinary artists, scholars, cultural commentators and
students from thirteen countries. It has transformed participants’ practices, with
works originating out of the initial research being celebrated on an international
platform. Topographies of the Obsolete has received funding from a variety
of
institutions, alongside its core support from the Norwegian Artistic Research
Programme (2013-15 & 2015-17), whose peer review system (2015)
rated it
as ‘exemplary… strengthening artistic research and its scope beyond potential
communities of practitioners/researchers’. The project explores the landscape and associated histories of post-industry,
with an initial emphasis on Stoke-on-Trent, a world-renowned ceramics capital that bears evidence of fluctuations in global fortunes.
OLSKROKSMOTET BLUES
(2026)
author(s): Ann Kroon
connected to: Konstfack - University of Arts, Crafts and Design
published in: Research Catalogue
Olskroksmotet Blues är den avslutande delen i mitt autoetnografiska projekt som pågick i olika former mellan 2014-2021, och där jag bland annat publicerat två artiklar (Kroon 2015 och 2016). RC expositionen består av tre delarbeten - arkivblad, arkivmönster och göteborg grid – jämte bakgrund och teori & metod. Utifrån min historia som fosterbarn söker jag fånga såväl mina egna erfarenheter och uttryck, som att sätta dessa i ljuset av större samhälleliga skeenden. Olskroksmotet Blues var också del av Mikrohistoriers fysiska grupputställning på Konstfack, Stockholm i september 2021.
Monotheist Mythology
(2026)
author(s): Tolga Theo Yalur
published in: Research Catalogue
This article explores monotheistic religions as powerful linguistic and social structures that function through a mechanism of collective delusion. Drawing on Jacques Lacan’s structuralist insights, the text argues that these faiths are not based on objective history but are fictions codified long after the events they describe.
