[spectre] Announcement - processpatching.net - PhD thesis A.Nigten

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We would like to invite you to view the online version of 
/Processpatching: Defining New Methods in aRt&D/, a PhD thesis by Anne 
Nigten, at www.processpatching.net <http://www.processpatching.net>


V2_ invited Anne Nigten to start the V2_Lab in 1998. She coined the term 
‘aRt&D’ to refer to research and development involving art and 
technology. One of the next steps in aRt&D will be to formalise its 
assembled working methods, which can be seen as essential ingredients 
for interdisciplinary collaboration.


As manager of the V2_Lab, Anne Nigten decided to investigate how 
electronic art patches together processes and methods originating in the 
arts, engineering, and computer science. Her thesis provides a framework 
for understanding electronic art’s method, through informing others 
about one’s own artistic research-and-development approach, this thesis 
contributed to improving the collaboration among artists, technicians 
and computer scientists. She conducted her investigation in the V2_Lab, 
an electronic-art laboratory where artists establish new alliances with 
other disciplines. The thesis contains unique information about specific 
cases of projects developed or presented in the V2_Lab between 2002 and 
2005. It provides sharp observations and analyses of the practical and 
theoretical aspects of artists’ research and development processes.

Nigten’s study addresses fundamental questions about the research and 
development methods of artists involved in interdisciplinary 
collaborations between and among the fields of art, computer science, 
and engineering. The artistic methods cited in her thesis include 
examples from a broad range of fields (such as technology, media arts, 
theatre and performance, systems theories, the humanities, and design 
practice), which are relevant to and intrinsically intertwined with this 
project and its position in an interdisciplinary knowledge domain.


Anne Nigten participated in the SMARTlab program at Central Saint 
Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London. Her 
supervisors were Professor Lizbeth Goodman, James Swinson and Professor 
Lynda Hardman.

This thesis has been realized with the support of V2_, Institute for the 
Unstable Media www.v2.nl <http://www.v2.nl>, and Multimedian 
www.multimedian.nl <http://www.multimedian.nl>