Enacting Artistic Research
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The
Enacting Artistic Research project (
EAR) aims to leverage artistic research as a strategic tool for the internationalization of italian Higher Education Institutions for Art, Music and Dance (AFAM).
EAR focuses on three main objectives:
- Integration of art and science: combining advanced technologies and cultural heritage to promote a new vision of art and culture in a global context.
- International dialogue and collaboration: connecting AFAM and scientific institutions to ease knowledge and methodologies exchange.
- Inclusion and accessibility: using technology to make cultural heritage accessible to a wider audience, removing physical and digital barriers.
Coordinated by the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, the project brings together a distinguished group of partners: Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Florence Academy of Fine Arts, Rome Conservatory of Music, L'Aquila Conservatory of Music, National Institute of Nuclear Physics, Marche Polytechnic University.
The project is structured into
five work packages (WP), each contributing to the achievement of strategic objectives:
- WP1: Project Management and Quality Assessment. Oversees project coordination and overall supervision, ensuring effective planning, results monitoring, and financial activity control.
- WP2: Art | Cultural Heritage and Science: Cross-Fertilization. Creates a transdisciplinary research environment where artistic research interacts with scientific and technological research to open new knowledge perspectives.
- WP3: Artificial and Collective Intelligence. Develops and expands the °’°Kobi digital platform, initially created as a proof of concept by the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome and the Marche Polytechnic University, making research accessible on an international scale.
- WP4: Artistic Research Hub. Promotes doctoral study paths, connecting PhD candidates with various research topics and curricula to strengthen the consortium’s research ecosystem.
- WP5: Dissemination, Cultural Mediation, and Open Data. Manages project communications, enhances the international visibility of AFAM institutions and ensures the broad dissemination of results to the target audience.
url:
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3743234/3743235
Groups
Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma
Ongoing projects:
1) MEMENTO MORI: a randomized CAT evalutaion of creative outputs in a didactic environment, assisted by semantic metrics provided by the °'°Kobi system
Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera
Conservatorio Santa Cecilia Roma
Recent Activities
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Ode to Black Earth
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): Devrim Kadirbeyoglu
connected to: Enacting Artistic Research
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Ode to Black Earth
This project explores humanity's deep relationship with the Earth, inspired by Asik Veysel's song "Black Earth." It invites reflection on themes of existence, portraying the Earth as a loyal companion that provides, heals, and witnesses our joys and struggles. It reveals a cyclical intimacy between our hardships and the Earth's resilience. It highlights the spiritual and material connection between humans and the land, culminating in a meditation on mortality and our return to the soil.
This short video captures moments from the performance by Devrim Kadirbeyoglu, presented on December 18, 2024, at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. The artist walks on stage wearing her grandmother's coat and hat, carrying a suitcase that belonged to her grandfather. These cherished heirlooms symbolize a connection to the past while resonating in the present. She places her brown leather suitcase on a table and opens it, inviting the audience to read a text aloud from their phones, tablets, or other devices in their chosen language. As they immerse themselves in words, they are invited to glance at the artist with phrases like 'look at the performer,' creating a shared moment of reflection. With care, the artist extracts personal belongings from her suitcase, each item telling a story, before returning them to their original home. As each viewer completes their reading, the artist closes the suitcase, lifts it with purpose, and walks away, leaving a lasting impression of connection and memory.
The performance is a study of the chapter "Death" from Sergio Blanco's Memento Mori. "All my autofictions were not written to show off but to search for myself. Each one was written from an "I" that sees in writing the possibility of meeting itself to reach out to others. In writing about the self, I find an opportunity to express myself, the chance to construct my story and to connect with others. I will never stop repeating this: I write about myself because I am alone and need to meet others. I write about myself in an attempt to understand both myself and others. I write about myself by projecting into imaginary situations in an effort to decipher the world."
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Un tocco della morte
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): FA
connected to: Enacting Artistic Research
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
Il progetto si basa sui principi dell'autoetnografia, un metodo di ricerca che intreccia autobiografia ed etnografia per esplorare il significato culturale attraverso esperienze personali. Attraverso 11 capitoli, il lavoro si sviluppa in una narrazione che integra ricordi intimi, tradizioni culturali e riflessioni personali, con particolare riferimento al testo “Memento Mori” di Sergio Blanco.
Ogni capitolo si apre con una citazione tratta dal libro, scelta in base alla corrispondenza con ricordi personali evocati dalla lettura. Ad esempio, il ricordo della morte di un compagno di scuola di 11 anni nel libro richiama un'esperienza simile vissuta dall’autrice, che diventa il fulcro di un racconto. Questa struttura di dialogo tra testo e vissuto personale rappresenta una rielaborazione creativa e interpretativa, secondo la sensibilità e la percezione soggettiva.
L’approccio critico al testo di Sergio Blanco si manifesta anche nel progetto grafico e performativo. Usando Adobe Illustrator, l’autrice realizza una locandina del libro, barrandone simbolicamente il titolo con una croce. Nella performance associata al progetto, il gesto simbolico di bruciare il libro diventa un mezzo per rappresentare un’emozione interiore profonda. Il fuoco esprime il dolore che l’autrice prova nell’affrontare la lettura di Memento Mori, un dolore che diventa intenso nel processo creativo richiesto per il progetto. Allo stesso tempo, il fuoco delle candele, utilizzato durante la performance, richiama le tradizioni commemorative, in cui le candele vengono accese per pregare per le anime dei defunti e per offrire conforto spirituale. Il fuoco rappresenta quindi una dualità: da una parte, il dolore e l’intensità emotiva, dall’altra, la pace e la riconciliazione interiore. Guardare il fuoco diventa un’esperienza catartica e consolatoria.
Un ruolo fondamentale è svolto dalle tradizioni culturali e religiose ortodosse legate al lutto e alla commemorazione dei defunti. Queste pratiche non sono solo uno sfondo culturale, ma diventano strumenti per affrontare il dolore e trovare un senso di speranza. Tra gli elementi esplorati vi sono:
I riti funebri e commemorativi ortodossi, come il Radonitsa (Pasqua dei morti) e la lettura notturna dei Salmi accanto ai defunti;
Le tradizioni culinarie, come i bliny, simbolo commemorativo;
Le espressioni musicali, come i canti funebri e l’uso della kalimba come voce degli antenati.
Il progetto esplora il potere delle tradizioni nel sostenere chi vive il lutto, trasformandolo in un processo creativo. Pur trattando temi tragici, il lavoro è un tributo alla resilienza e alla capacità della cultura di aiutare a elaborare la perdita. Attraverso uno stile semplice e diretto, si mira a offrire uno sguardo empatico e universale su questioni identitarie, culturali e personali.
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AI for Collective Intelligence and creativity. The case of °'°KOBI - a tool for interdisciplinary and artistic research
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Andrea Guidi, FRANCO RIPA DI MEANA, Veronica Di Geronimo
This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
In the ongoing discourse surrounding artistic research, a key challenge is the need to transcend its immediate context and break through disciplinary boundaries. To address this challenge, we present °'°Kobi, an AI mediated research platform designed to prioritize interconnections across diverse fields. The platform aims to stimulate divergent thinking and imagination.
°'°Kobi offers content that encourages creative experimentation and non-linear reflection, while providing the ability to track authorship and generate bibliographic references. These features lay the foundation for interdisciplinary collaboration and intellectual cross-pollination, creating resonance that bridges fields and communities. Users ask questions and perform searches interacting with an AI chatbot that replies with text and media from the knowledge base. The results include unexpected contents that encourage the exploration of new research paths and the development of counterfactual ways of thinking.
The underlying system uses a Large Language Model (LLM) to transform artistic and scientific publications into a dynamic "Universe" of semantic nodes. Users are encouraged to explore thematic intersections and uncover unexpected correlations visualizing a constellation of concepts and connections.
°'°Kobi, intended as a knowledge universe of reverberation and amplification between elements, becomes a crucial tool for connecting materials, ideas, and contexts. It proposes a paradigm of collective intelligence and creativity that exemplifies how the concept of resonance between fields and researchers can serve as a methodological tool in artistic research.
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Convergences. Creative Research at the Nexus of Art and Science
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Veronica Di Geronimo
connected to: Enacting Artistic Research
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
"Convergences. Creative Research at the Nexus of Art and Science" presents conversations with four renowned Italian artists who combine their artistic expression with scientific disciplines. The series spotlights José Angelino, Federica Di Carlo, Fuse*, and Luca Pozzi, focusing on how scientific research influences their art, and the methodology adopted in their artistic research.
This initiative is part of a wider program by CARE Lab, a transdisciplinary research laboratory based at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in partnership with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics at Roma Tre University.
Through these four engaging interviews, the series sheds light on the artists' perspectives and investigative techniques, offering insights into the complex and varied connections and research opportunities that emerge at the intersection of art and science.
Ph: Enrico Bernieri, Cinzia pietribiasi, Dumbbell Nebula, 2023
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INOUT in dialogue with Universon
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): INOUT
connected to: Enacting Artistic Research
This exposition is in revision and its share status is: visible to all.
Inout will interview Universon, an emerging multimedia artist who has been experimenting with various technologies, including artificial intelligence in recent years.
Universon will describe the latest project "[S]", a virtual world in which one can live an alternative life and will talk about that world and how you can experience an other reality inside it thanks to the use of new technologies (virtual reality, etc ...).
This work has been presented at EU4ART_differences Summer School "Digital Rites and Embodied Memories".
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