[spectre] Research into Practice conference 2006 [u]

[Geert Lovink [c]]

> From: Michael Biggs [mailto:m.a.biggs at herts.ac.uk]
> SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline 6 February 2006)
>
> ***RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE 2006***
> http://www.herts.ac.uk/artdes1/research/res2prac/index.html
>
> The fourth international biennial conference on the foundations of
> practice-based research in art and design will be convened at the 
> University
> of Hertfordshire, UK, on 7 & 8 July 2006.
>
> The theme of RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE 2006 is the role of the context in 
> the
> interpretation of artefacts and visual semantics in art and design 
> research.
>
> In recent years there has been much international debate about the 
> role of
> the artefact in art and design research. The debate has considered, for
> example, what contribution the artefact makes to the research process 
> and to
> the communication of the outcomes. However, artefacts are not 
> interpreted in
> isolation. The question of what contribution the artefact makes has to 
> be
> considered in the light of how the artefact is interpreted. This
> interpretation takes place in a context; for example in the studio, in 
> a
> gallery, in the market place, online, in the context of "research" or 
> in the
> context of "design", etc. Research into Practice 2006 focuses on these
> contexts and explores the instrumentality of the context on the 
> reception of
> artefacts as constituting or contributing to research.
>
> Topics that might be considered include, but are not restricted to:
>
> *     Is the researcher responsible for establishing a context for the
> "correct" interpretation of the artefact, i.e. is that also part of 
> doing
> research?
> *     Can the research content be activated/deactivated by changing the
> context of reception?
> *     Are certain types of context more research-friendly than others?
> *     Is it the context that makes research into research, [cf. the
> Institutional Theory of Art]
> *     What is signified by research being undertaken in the context of 
> a
> university or by being done by those labelled as researchers, or being
> funded by a Research Council?
> *     Does research demand new types of context, and what would they 
> need to
> be like?
> *     What is the impact of traditional academic attempts at the
> recontextualization of research from other disciplines outside art and
> design?
> *     Is decontextualization or disinterest, either possible or 
> desirable?
>
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>
> ***RESEARCH INTO PRACTICE 2006***