[eccr] Seminar: Creative Practice, Research Methodologies, Institutional Frames

>Digital Media and Digital Culture Seminar Series
>Centre for Media Research, University of Ulster
>Coleraine Campus, Northern Ireland
><http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/media/cmr.html>http://www.arts.ulster.ac.uk/media/cmr.html
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>For further info contact:
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>Ned Rossiter
>email: <mailto:(n.rossiter /at/ ulster.ac.uk)>(n.rossiter /at/ ulster.ac.uk)
>tel.+44 (0)28 7032 3275
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>'Creative Practice, Research Methodologies, Institutional Frames'
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>Dr. Keith Armstrong & Danny Butt,
>Visiting Researchers, Centre for Media Research Digital Media and Digital 
>Cultures strand
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>Room B244, South Building, Coleraine Campus
>2-4pm Monday 11th July 2005
>
>The Research Assessment Exercise 2008 draft assessment criteria for UK 
>researchers will be published for consultation from mid-July 2005. This 
>will mark the beginning of significant dialogues within institutions about 
>research priorities, and what activities will position Universities to 
>achieve the best rating in 2008.
>
><http://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/2005/01/>http://www.rae.ac.uk/pubs/2005/01/
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>The history of creative practice within research assessment is a long and 
>troubled one. The institutional transformation of higher education has led 
>to an important role for creative practice in the research, science and 
>technology policy fields. The effects can be seen in the development of 
>terminology such as the "creative industries", where the definition of 
>creativity is transformed from the expressive capacity of the human 
>subject to a concept of innovation within a specified field of practice. 
>There have also been important questions raised about whether policy 
>definitions of research can be applied directly to work with an artefact 
>or experience as its outcome, or whether the dynamics of creative practice 
>require equivalent but separate conceptual frames.
>
>This conversation between Dr. Keith Armstrong, Australian new media artist 
>and Danny Butt, former Director of the Creative Industries Research Centre 
>in Hamilton, New Zealand, will explore the various tensions in the 
>relationship between artists, researchers, and research assessment. Keith 
>Armstrong will outline the development for the interactive installation 
>work 'Shifting Intimacies', a collaboration with choreographer/performer 
>Charlotte Vincent, commissioned by the Institute of Contemporary Art, 
>London to premiere in February 2006. Danny Butt will give a brief overview 
>of the historical tensions and accommodations between creative 
>practitioners and research institutions, with particular reference to new 
>media arts. This will be followed by open dialogue among the participants 
>and the presenters.
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>This workshop will be of particular interest to those working in art and 
>design, performance,  and media production disciplines within higher 
>education settings, as well as those creating research infrastructure for 
>creative practitioners.
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>Speaker biographies:
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>Dr Keith Armstrong specialises in collaborative, hybrid, new media works 
>with an emphasis on performance, site-specific installation and 
>art-science collaborations. His ongoing research focuses on how scientific 
>and philosophical ecologies can both influence and direct the design and 
>conception of networked, interactive media artworks. Keith's artworks have 
>been shown and profiled extensively both in Australia and internationally. 
>He is a creative director, media designer and system integrator within 
>multidisciplinary teams and is the founder and director of the 
>interdisciplinary collective, 'Transmute'. Keith is a researcher in the 
>Australasian Centre for Interaction Design and has just completed a 
>Post-doctoral New Media Fellowship at Queensland University of 
>Technology's Creative Industries Faculty. He is the Queensland editor for 
>the national arts newspaper Realtime and a member of the QUT Creative 
>Industries Media-Architecture Integration Advisory Panel to Queensland 
>Government and Hassell Partners Architects. His latest work Intimate 
>Transactions has just won an Honorary mention at the prestigious PrixArs 
>Electronica in the 'CyberArts 2005' Interactive Arts category.
>
><http://www.embodiedmedia.com>http://www.embodiedmedia.com
><mailto:(keith /at/ embodiedmedia.com)>(keith /at/ embodiedmedia.com)
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>Danny Butt is an independent consultant and researcher in new media, with 
>recent clients including the Asia Pacific Development Information 
>Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP-APDIP) and 
>Queensland University of Technology's Creative Industries Research and 
>Applications Centre (CIRAC). Previously, he was founding Director of the 
>Creative Industries Research Centre at the Waikato Institute of 
>Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand, where he also lectured in digital media 
>and established the Digital Media Design programme, as well as 
>coordinating international symposia on creative practices and industries. 
>He is on the Working Editorial Committee for the Digital Review of Asia 
>Pacific, the definitive reference on information technologies for 
>socio-economic development in the region, and member of the ORBICOM 
>International Network of UNESCO Chairs in Communications. He currently 
>serves as Chair of the Place, Ground and Practice Working Group for the 
>Pacific Rim New Media Summit at the International Symposium of Electronic 
>Arts 2006 in San Jose. Before working in the academy, Danny held a range 
>of positions in the music, publishing, new media, contemporary arts, and 
>advertising industries.
>
><http://www.dannybutt.net>http://www.dannybutt.net
><mailto:(danny /at/ dannybutt.net)>(danny /at/ dannybutt.net)
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