Research Catalogue

an international database for artistic research

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HUB is a peer-reviewed and open-access research journal for reporting on arts, design, and performing arts. It has an international scope with a particular emphasis on practitioner methodologies and the educational impact of artistic research.

HUB's aims are two-fold: to promote a cross-disciplinary exchange of ideas to foster new forms of inquiry and documentation of artistic research; to stimulate the debate surrounding the social, cultural, and technological frames of art and design practices.

HUB is published twice a year by i2ADS – Research Institute in Art, Design and Society (University of Porto, Portugal) with the support of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).

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  3. HUB Issue #3 / Autumn 2024 / Metabolic Media The essays and expositions in this issue of HUB delve into the concept of metabolic media, exploring the interconnections between biological, technological, cultural, and ecological systems. Guest Co-editors Louise Carver & Jamie Allen.
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  2. HUB Issue #2 / Spring 2024 / Varia This issue marks the first year of HUB, which continues to develop work along the lines of artistic research, focusing its attention on multiple creative practices and the transversality of the processes explored.
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  1. HUB Issue #1 / Autumn 2023 / Distance For this Autumn issue of HUB, we present a collection of works that results from the interest in broadening the understanding of DISTANCE after our first open call process for Artists, Designers, and Researchers in Art, Design and Society.
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  0. HUB Special Issue — Issue #0 / Spring 2023 The first inaugural issue we feature the contributions from invited researchers, relevant within a wide range of areas, reflecting on relevant or emerging topics of research and development within the Arts and Design.

• The Ethics of Pleasure: Transformation of Pornography and Revolution in Female Desire (last edited: 2024) author(s): Natalie Peskova This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  This work begins with an overview of the topic of pornography in the context of the past century, drawing on feminist discourse and the sexual revolution. It primarily outlines the perspective of liberal feminism, particularly the sexually positive view of pornography. The subsequent section describes the image of pornography, its forms in various media, and its impact on the consumer. I aim to explain certain characteristics and content intentions closely associated with mainstream pornography. These primarily involve elements of stereotyping related to unrealistic portrayals, gender discrimination, and sexism. In the second half of this work, I focus on the specific topic of pornography for women, or ethical pornography, as an important genre of contemporary pornography. This refers to pornographic content designed to satisfy viewers not only through the ethical values upheld in each production but primarily through content that differs in its function, aesthetics, and the overall performance of the actors, which finally aligns with our reality.
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• Microscope Photography as an Emotional Visual Response to the Issues of Loss, Belonging and Identity (last edited: 2024) author(s): Ivana Mancic This exposition is in review and its share status is: visible to all.
  This article focuses on the usage of microscope photography to present an emotional response to personal memories of what Yugoslavia was in my experience and on my understanding of issues of loss, belonging and identity, related to the specificity of the Yugoslav social context. Its focal point is the female interpretation of people, ways of life, buildings and human artefacts belonging to the historical period of communist Yugoslavia which once were, yet no longer remain. The work with archives, especially the photographs which originate from my personal family possession, brings closer these ghosts of the past times to the present moment. At the same time, photography is a means to investigate the society during and after the period of Yugoslavia, using site- writing visual narrative. The usage of photography as a vehicle for meaning making, allows an insight into the lives of people during communism through the lens of my closest family members. Autoethnography as a research method combined with personal narrative allows a deeper understanding of culture and values of Yugoslav society and their subsequent clash. Photographic practice-based research allows an insight into individual stories which form a deeper understanding of the pre- and post- war Yugoslav society and political circumstances surrounding it.
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