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  Ray, where have you been today? (2025) author(s): Pietro Fanti published in: Research Catalogue
  Is the reality perceived by someone with dementia less real than our own? Can photography give authority to this alternate reality? This research, sparked by my newfound relationship with my dementia-affected grandfather Raymond, investigates the family album - often perceived as an unquestionable document - in order to uncover its ambiguities and to question photography in itself as the most trustful record of reality. The inaccuracy of a medium that aims for objectiveness and is perceived as the bearer of truth, leads me to focus on three different ways of approaching the family archive (collection, editing and manipulation) and the relationship between mortality and memory. By using a mix of photography and photogrammetry, Ray's distorted memories - as he recounted them during his illness - became new images in order to materialise his present parallel truth. Alongside this dreamlike everyday, what has survived of Ray's past is contained in a briefcase: 254 photographs that have been transformed into postcards, travelling keepsakes, ready to be sent. If photography is in itself unreliable, why should the reality of a person who has lost his memory be any less real than our own?
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  What Is This Image Doing Here? [submitted to VIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research - 2025-07-11 10:25] (2025) author(s): Giselle Hinterholz published in: Research Catalogue
  This visual essay explores images generated through AI-based expansion of a simple photographic composition. Without commands or prompts, the system infers human gestures, shadows, and presences — inventing what was never there. The project questions authorship, visibility, and the power of symbolic residue when language no longer mediates creation. It is not about representation — it is about refusal, inference, and the unsettling persistence of images beyond intention.
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• How to stage sexual violence from a post victim perspective? (2025) author(s): Tuulia Soininen published in: Research Catalogue
  This exegesis discusses staging sexual violence from the post victim perspective within the context of contemporary dance and artistic research. It addresses the topic with feministic and autoethnographic approaches as a means to expand narrow victim narratives and proposes more complex and nuanced artistic language. This research highlights the need for ethical frameworks in dance and calls for new methodologies to support such work. Fontys & Codarts, Master Choreography COMMA, Master Arts, Cohort 4: 2023-2025
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  Drawing as continously guided Practice: A Phenomenological Foundation of the Sketch&Draw Method (2025) author(s): Tanja K. Hess published in: Research Catalogue
  This essay examines drawing as a consciously guided practice for fostering creative problem‐solving and idea generation. At its center lies the Sketch&Draw method, with its core principle of the “fluttering line.” Drawing on Stephen R. Covey’s (1989) concept of the space between stimulus and response, Mihály Csikszentmihályi’s (1990) flow theory, and Maurice Merleau‐Ponty’s (1945) notion of embodiment, it develops—via the Sketch&Draw method—the central principle of the “fluttering line.” Through workshop analyses and practice sketches from sketchanddraw.com, it is evident how the visual noise of the fluttering line opens a mental space in which spontaneous impulses and effortless presence both set the creative process in motion and give it structure. Participant reports illustrate how these uncontrolled networks of strokes are later experienced as “whispered impulses” that support the flow state. Finally, the essay discusses potentials, fields of application, and methodological limits in artistic, technical, and academic contexts, and outlines proposals for further empirical and interdisciplinary research.
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• o fazedor de imagens (2025) author(s): ska Batista published in: Research Catalogue
  Este ensaio visual parte da figura do fazedor de imagens, onde articula experiências pessoais, memórias, imagens apropriadas e práticas performativas para evidenciar que toda memória é, em essência, partilhada e continuamente reencenada. A pergunta-afeto que orienta o percurso é: e se eu fosse imagem? Um convite à reinvenção coletiva dos modos de existir, fazer e imaginar. tal como os vaga-lumes de Didi-Huberman que persistem e brilham mesmo em meio à noite iluminada pelos holofotes… Dessa forma, convida-se a imaginar… imaginar apesar de tudo.
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  A/r/tographic design of an a/r/tographic course for staff in higher education (2025) author(s): Tone Pernille Østern published in: Research Catalogue
  This exposition is part of the peer-reviewed article: Østern, T. P., Reppen, C., O’Connell, S., & Daneberg, M. (2025). Choreographer/researcher/teacher: Developing a/r/tography as an approach to dance pedagogy at Stockholm University of the Arts in a professional learning community of teachers. Nordic Journal of Art & Research, 14(2). https://doi.org/10.7577/ar.5460 This exposition explores my a/r/tographic design dive as course coordinator of the course "A/r/tography in theory and practice in higher education" (7.5 ects) at Stockholm University of the Arts. The decision to create and offer this course arose from a large collaborative change project at the former Department for Dance Pedagogy. The project led to a revision of the BA in Dance Pedagogy into an a/r/tographic study program, emphasizing the entangled roles of choreographer, researcher, and teacher. The course was developed to support professional development in a/r/tography for staff teaching across arts disciplines in higher education. As course coordinator, I dove into the course design a/r/tographically.
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