[ecrea] CFP - The Art of Research

*EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR FULL PAPERS: 30 August 2017 !!!!!*
*Art of Research VI*
*Catalyses, Interventions, Transformations*
29-30 November 2017 at Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and 
Architecture, Helsinki, Finland
Over the past two decades, the Art of Research conferences have had a 
significant role in promoting continuous dialogue and fruitful 
convergence between art- and design-related research practices. The 
conferences have contributed to the development of rapidly growing and 
spreading contemporary discourse on artistic and practice-led research – 
while acknowledging and engaging in multiple notions of research where 
diverse modes of creative practice are used as catalysts for enquiry.
The theme of this sixth Art of Research conference addresses the agency 
of the artist-researcher as a catalyst that challenges established ideas 
and produces new thinking through artistic and practice-led research. 
Moving on from early preoccupations within the field about ontological 
or epistemological foundations, this Art of Research VI Conference poses 
the questions:
How do artistic research activities act as /catalysts/ in the domain of 
different praxes? How can ideas and/or practices of catalysis be 
considered within a particular research processes, or in relation to 
larger contexts and realms of art, politics and society?
Art of Research VI conference explores the different manifestations, 
articulations and emergent agencies triggered by artistic means and 
related methods of theorizing. In the context of artistic research, 
catalysis is understood as an action that causes /re/actions and 
continues to activate critical thinking that provokes further reactions. 
Therefore, Art of Research VI focuses on the multitude of bodies of 
artistic and practice-led research and their effects towards producing 
new knowledge, new experience, new materialities, new theoretical 
insights, new praxes and poetics.
We invite submissions to the conference that are original proposals on 
various forms of art that significantly contribute to praxis and 
research through art and design. As a guide to developing submissions 
relevant to the conference, we suggest some potential questions. The 
themes are not categorical nor fixed; rather, we encourage broad 
contextual thinking and perspectives that relate but are not limited to 
the following areas:
· How can artistic and practice-led research offer alternative accesses 
and options for challenging established epistemologies?
· How can artistic and practice-led research trigger revisions and 
transformations in art and design in relation to present day ethical, 
societal and environmental challenges, on a diversity of scales?
· How does artistic and practice-led research intervene in the realms 
outside the art world or academia? How does it relate to activism/artivism?
· How can artistic research enable collisions of different practices, 
methods and agencies?
· How is thinking at the intersection of poetics, ethics and politics 
transformed?
· How can the theory-practice interface catalyze new poetics or praxis 
in relation to a singular artistic research project or in a wider 
context for any field of art?
· How does the artistic/ practice-led research context challenge the 
ways the research is written, expressed or performed.
Through these questions, the main aim of the event is to engage in a 
shared exploration of bold and visionary thinking across different 
entangling practices. Historically, the Art of Research conference has 
been widely appreciated as an unconventional and highly-interactive 
format for discussing, exhibiting and performing different modes of 
discourse. Art of Research VI will offer an academic framework for 
discussing catalyses, interventions and transformations in a**diversity 
of art-, craft- and design-related practices.
The Conference is interested in proposals drawing from the full spectrum 
of artistic and practice-led research today. We encourage submissions 
from artist-researchers and practice-led researchers representing 
different art forms e.g. contemporary art, film, photography, 
scenography, craft, design, media and architecture. The conference 
themes include a diversity of perspectives that relate to the 
conceptualization and to the different forms and formats that artistic 
research can take, as well as to its contribution to critical thinking 
and groundbreaking change. Other questions that potential contributors 
see as productively challenging these themes are most welcome.
We invite full papers (5000 words maximum) from doctoral students, 
post-doctoral researchers and mature academics. Specifically, we invite 
contributions that contribute to one of the following categories:
(1) Explorative papers/presentations including works of art
This type of papers must be submitted together with works of art, 
artifacts, or documentation of artistic processes and must contribute to 
the understanding of how the visual/audiovisual and the textual are 
unified in research. Each submission must also include a separate 
description of the artwork (80 words max.) and visual material such as 
photographs or video (digital formats only, up to 10MB in total). The 
submission should also entail explanation of the related equipment 
required to display this material. Please note that the transportation 
of the artwork(s) is the author's responsibility. The exhibition will be 
curated by the organizers.
(2) Methodological and theoretical papers related to the conference themes
All contributions will be double-blind peer reviewed. To facilitate the 
review process, authors are responsible for removing any identifying 
information from their submissions that might lead a reviewer to discern 
their identities or affiliations. The author’s name in self-citations 
must be replaced with “Author” in in-text citations, reference entries 
and footnotes. For the paper template and other practical details, see 
the conference web site atartofresearch2017.aalto.fi 
<http://artofresearch2017.aalto.fi/>. For more information, please 
contact (aor2017 /at/ aalto.fi) <mailto:(aor2017 /at/ aalto.fi)>.
This is the sixth in the Art of Research conference series, the first of 
which took place in Helsinki in 2005.The conference is co-organized at 
Aalto University by the Department of Design, the Department of Film, 
Television and Scenography and the Department of Art, in the School of 
Arts, Design and Architecture.
*EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR FULL PAPERS: 30 August 2017 *
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KEY DATES
15 January 2017: First call for papers
15 February 2017: Second call for papers
15 March 2017: Third call for papers
15 June 2017: Deadline for full papers
31 August 2017: Notification of acceptances and reviewer feedback
15 September – 20 November 2017: Registration and payment
15 October 2017: Submission of final papers
12 November 2017: Submission for exhibits (with photos & description)
23-28 November 2017: Exhibition Building
29-30 November 2017: Conference


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