[spectre] Fwd: Sensuous Knowledge 2

[rene beekman]

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> From: Trond Lossius <lossius at bek.no>
> Subject: [0xff] [OT] Sensuous Knowledge 2
>
> Call for presentations
> Sensuous Knowledge 2:
> Aesthetic Practice and Aesthetic Insight
> An International Working Conference
> on Fundamental Problems of Artistic Research and Development
> at Solstrand, Norway
>
> Nov 9 ­ Nov 11 2005
>
> The first international working conference on "Sensuous Knowledge" was  
> held
> at Solstrand, close to Bergen, Norway, in October 2004. About 70  
> artists,
> designers and teachers in higher art and design education had  
> responded to
> the invitation by the Bergen National Academy of the Arts  
> (Kunsthøgskolen i
> Bergen, KHiB) to spend three days listening to a few key note  
> speeches, but
> first of all discussing examples of artistic research and development
> presented by the participants in the working groups. In accordance  
> with the
> subtitle of the conference ­ "Creating a Tradition" ­ one of the aims  
> was to
> develop ways of talking about, analyzing and evaluating various kinds  
> of
> artistic R&D. Another aim was to consider the special character of  
> cognition
> related to artistic creativity.
>
> The discussions revealed, among other things, a conflict between what  
> may be
> an Anglo-Saxon and a Continental understanding of concepts like  
> "science",
> "research and development", and "knowledge" and their relevance for  
> artistic
> R&D. The former seems to take its point of departure in the natural
> sciences, demanding strict methods and hoping for new, factual and
> generalizable knowledge, whereas the latter is inspired by the  
> humanities,
> using hermeneutic methods and aiming at providing some kind of broader
> insight.
>
> In the conference "Sensuous Knowledge 2" the distinction between the  
> two
> concepts will be treated in at least one key note speech within a  
> context of
> both theory and history of both science and art. One plenary session  
> will
> contain a couple of presentations with prepared comments, also  
> introducing a
> rhetorical perspective on ways of discussing the various kinds of  
> aesthetic
> insight that may be gathered from these examples of aesthetic  
> practice. But
> the main feature of this second conference will again be the working  
> groups
> where participants present their own artistic R&D and get prepared  
> comments
> before all members of the group join in a general discussion.
>
> With this we want to invite practitioners from all art disciplines
> (including design and performative arts) to hand in proposals for
> presentations (about 30 minutes each) of completed or ongoing  
> R&D-projects,
> for the working conference "Sensuous Knowledge 2: Aesthetic Practice  
> and
> Aesthetic Insight". Please send us just one page (or two at the most)
> describing the format of your presentation, with a summary of the main
> points and main challenges of your project and a note on what kind of  
> visual
> or acoustic material you may want to present.
>
> Deadline for proposals for presentations will be May 2, 2005, and you  
> will
> be informed whether your proposal has been accepted by June 15. This  
> will
> also be the date when we send out a general invitation to participate  
> in the
> conference with a preliminary program and details about registration,
> conference fee, etc. Deadline for registrations will be late September.
>
> Please send proposals to Tone Lund-Olsen,
> Coordinator for Artistic Research and Development
> tlo at khib.no
>
> or
>
> Kunsthøgskolen i Bergen
> Strømgaten 1, 5015 Bergen, Norway
>
> For more information, please contact Tone Lund-Olsen
> +47 55 58 73 13
> tlo at khib.no
>
> See papers from the 2004 conference at:
> www1.khib.no/index.php/khib/ku_fou/konferanser_seminarer/ 
> papers_fra_sensuous
> _knowledge_creating_a_tradition
> Solstrand Hotel & Bad
> www.solstrand.com
>
> Academic organizers of the conference are
>
> Søren Kjørup,
> professor/R&D adviser at Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB) and
> professor of theory and history of the humanities at Roskilde  
> University
> (RUC), Denmark
>
> Nina Malterud,
> rector and professor at Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB)
>
>
> Bergen National Academy of the Arts (KHiB) is one of the two  
> independent
> institutions of higher education in the visual arts and design in  
> Norway.
> KHiB has three departments: Department of Fine Art; Department of  
> Design
> (with the subject areas furniture and room design/interior  
> architecture and
> visual communication) and Department of Specialised Art (with the  
> subject
> areas photography, printmaking, ceramics and textiles). Students can  
> take a
> three-year Bachelor degree and a two-year Master degree in design or  
> visual
> arts. KHiB has 300 students and a staff, full-time and part-time, of  
> 100.
>
>