Empty Space
(2024)
author(s): Barbora Haplova
published in: UMPRUM - Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design Prague
This artistic post-master research explores interpretational possibilities of empty space. Combining literary and graphic creative work with documentary, personal and research background, the e-book asks a question how can we find connections between individual occurrences of empty space. Through bilingual essays, visual essays, and practical exercises, this work proposes the following perspectives: empty space as a mode of attention; nuanced individual interpretations of empty space as missing, coming together, not being, disappearing; empty space as a field designed to be filled; and the non-definition of empty space as accepting the unknowability of its possibilities.
And _ Blinkbonny Avenue and strangeness of everyday life
(2024)
author(s): Niina Marjatta Turtola
published in: Research Catalogue
This is a research project into building an artist book that uses typographic devices and page layout in construction a multilayered narrative. Everyday life and actual events are part of of the narrative backbone and this is mostly photographic material. Another layer consists on dialogues (verbal, email, etc) between 2015- and ongoing between the two researchers involved in the project. This is language-based written material. Third layer is the thematic context in building the actual book which happens in the academic presentations, performances and knowledge disseminations.
The poetics of autopoiesis: visual arts, autonomy and artificial intelligence.
(2024)
author(s): bruno caldas
published in: University of the Arts Helsinki
This exposition contains the manuscript and artistic components of the doctoral research project "The poetics of autopoiesis: visual arts, autonomy and artificial intelligence."
The project aimed to explore the limits of creative autonomy in face of recent developments in generative visual artificial intelligence.
RÅDJUREN, FLICKORNA, eller PLAY & FAIL
(2024)
author(s): Anna Nygren
published in: VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
My research is a failed writer's failed attempt to become a literary scholar. I'm researching from the position of an amoeba in academia – at certain moments I claim to be a Trojan Horse, a Trixster, or something else subversive. But more often than not it just ends up being: failure. I write from a writing-reading position. Where my reading of literature is infiltrated by my writing practice. This exposition is based on my failed dissertation in literature, which I am now trying to recover in the form of an artistic research project. The literary dissertation is about Monika Fagerholm's novel "Who killed Bambi?" (2019), and my failure is the inability to be scientific and detached, to stay within the framework. In the exposition I examine this from a queer/lesbian and neuroqueer/autistic perspective. I start from an emotional (un)knowledge and try to distort ideas and boundaries between failure and play.
Possible Connection between the Development of Executive Functions and Music Education According to the Kodály Concept
(2024)
author(s): Orsolya Toldi
published in: KC Research Portal
This research will focus on comparing tasks that are used to measure the development of executive functions (EFs) and musicianship exercises according to the Kodály concept in order to find analogies and functional intersections between them. EFs are essential for our mental and physical health, for school and job success. Since these skills can be improved and early EFs training might help reduce social disparities in academic achievement and health, pinpointing activities that could develop EFs has become an important research topic in psychology, neuroscience, and education in recent years.
The main direction of this research will be a close examination of the tasks used for measuring the three core components of EFs - inhibition, cognitive flexibility and working memory alongside musicianship exercises taken from Kodály methodological books and lesson observations that work in a similar way.
This study has found similarities between EF tasks and Kodály musicianship exercises in all the three core components of EFs. These findings could indicate that with Kodály’s music education approach we are not only practising musicianship exercises but we might challenge our EF skills as well. This research, therefore, could be a first step that leads to a more complex investigation into the potential positive impact of music education according to the Kodály Concept on EFs.
The Hybrid Performance. Exploring the realm between DJ- and Live-sets
(2024)
author(s): Brita Urstad Toft
published in: University of Agder, Faculty of Fine Arts
A Master Project in Artistic Research at University of Agder. Through artistic practice and reflection, I discuss my experience of developing as a performer and DJ. I look at three different performances; a live show for Klubb Kosmos, one for the Master Concert and finally a hybrid set at the Cornerteateret. I highlight non-male pioneers and perspectives from the history of club music and music production. The research project provides insight into my artistic practice and reflections on how the development of a hybrid performance can unfold.
Masterprosjekt i kunstnerisk utviklingsarbeid ved Universitetet i Agder. Gjennom kunstnerisk praksis og refleksjon diskuterer jeg min erfaring og utvikling som utøver og DJ. Jeg viser til tre forskjellige opptredener; et liveshow for Klubb Kosmos, ett for Masterkonserten og til slutt et hybridsett på Cornerteateret. Jeg trekker frem ikke-mannlige pionerer og perspektiver fra klubbmusikken og musikkproduksjonens historie. Forskningsprosjektet gir innsikt i min kunstneriske praksis og refleksjoner rundt hvordan utviklingen av en hybrid performance kan utfolde seg.