1. Taming the forest : embracing the complexity of art-sci research through microhistory, bioeconomics and intermedia artNikita Peresin Meden, Kristina Pranjić, Peter Purg, 2024, original scientific article Abstract: An ongoing collaborative project between art and science, Taming the Forest (2022) was implemented by a team of students, artists and researchers charting an interdisciplinary project among bioeconomics, environmental history, policy and artistic practice. In this article, the project acts as a case study for researching the conflicting narratives of history and economics about biodiversity in general, and specifically about forests. It shows how different blends of methodologies in artistic-cum-scientific research can become relevant for both realms, opening new creative pathways and pedagogical registers while repeatedly returning to a specific forest’s microhistory. Moreover, the article stresses the need for a new sensibility and complex knowledge, moving beyond an objective study and becoming attentive to different dimensions of research and its outputs that emerge through the introduction of artistic thinking and methodologies. This kind of transdisciplinary approach becomes necessary in order to tackle the manifold large-scale problems such as the climate and biodiversity crises, which call for both acting decisively and transforming radically, above all with regard to how humans perceive, relate to and manage nature.
Keywords: biodiversity, climate crisis, environmental history, forest management, Karst, transdisciplinary, artistic thinking, artistic research
Published in RUNG: 01.07.2024; Views: 555; Downloads: 8
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2. Dancing sympathy beyond human failure : artistic research as cosmopolitical defuturingPeter Purg, 2023, original scientific article Abstract: abstract
The article explores the concepts, tools and methods that may be taken on board by artistic researchers when venturing into uncertain futures. The approaching hay-day of Artistic Research calls for a repositioning of this academic and cultural avantgarde that is assuming real power and must thus take clear opposition against dominant politics and corporate capitalism keeping the human and non-human kinds in perpetual crisis. Next to Science and Technology, Art has finally reached a status of an equivalued cornerstone, and within this level playing field a new research-based approach is needed where power relationships, decision-making mechanisms, dominant narratives or prevalent aesthetics are boldly investigated and critically questioned, (re)instituting the importance of artistic disruption and establishing art-thinking as the key to not only question but also design pathways to meaningful change. Deeply intertwined research methodologies ranging from social to natural sciences, from humanities via (critically reflected) technologies to the (technologically emancipated) arts, should be left to safely mingle and mutually inspire. Rather than colonizing it with yet another false supremacy, we should be learning from the Global South, where collective dancing, storytelling or performing still presents a norm of how to generate new knowledge or reach consensus. Artistic Research can contribute to crafting better worlds even once AI entities get accepted as fellow researchers (if not dancers), their agency reflected in an attitude of radical sympathy (re)instituting care, justice and solidarity by ways of sound research activism.
Keywords: artistic research, interdisciplinary, posthumanism, art-science-technology, critical
Published in RUNG: 15.06.2023; Views: 1492; Downloads: 19
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3. Data colonialism : highlighting socioeconomic disparity of indigenous people2020, radio or television broadcast, podcast, interview, press conference Keywords: data sets, indigenous, heritage, ancestry, data ownership, artistic research, intermedia, identity, data science, coding
Published in RUNG: 25.02.2021; Views: 2668; Downloads: 20
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4. The wetlands between art and science2020, radio or television broadcast, podcast, interview, press conference Keywords: artistic research, bioart, performance art science, feminism, environmental humanities, posthumanism, skin, complexity, embodiment, unruliness
Published in RUNG: 16.02.2021; Views: 2875; Downloads: 25
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5. Hybrid research between Art and Science : podMAST2020, radio or television broadcast, podcast, interview, press conference Keywords: art thinking, artistic sensibility, born hybrid, collective filtering, video theory, transdisciplinary, organising research, research design, hybrid thinking, curatorship
Published in RUNG: 08.12.2020; Views: 3235; Downloads: 25
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6. Human and machine relationship needs (art for) a new corporeal hybridity2020, radio or television broadcast, podcast, interview, press conference Keywords: performance art, dancetheater, somatic, biopolitics, transdisciplinary, posthuman, embodiment, artistic research, bioart, robotics
Published in RUNG: 08.12.2020; Views: 3050; Downloads: 23
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7. Theory of Discourse and Semiotics : Foucault, Bakhtin, PeirceAleš Vaupotič, 2019, independent scientific component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: The paper begins with an analysis of a news article reporting
on scientific discovery. The scientific methods are considered from
the point of view of Peircean semiotics and the structuralist semiology.
The usefulness of the Peircean approach in literary scholarship is demonstrated
in the case of the realist novel as it is construed by Hans Vilmar
Geppert. By considering Geppert’s alignment of Bakhtin’s theory of the
novel with Peirce’s sign-theory the similarities and differences between
the discourse-theoretical (considering also Foucault’s work) and semiotic
approaches is outlined. In the second part of the text two cases of artistic
research are presented, the first one, the Friedhof Laguna project from
2003, being realised in the discourse-theoretical frameworks, and the
second one, 3-D visualizations of the NEWW Women Writers database
from 2017, being grounded in the Peircean semiotics.
Keywords: C. S. Peirce, semiotics, F. de Saussure, semiology, M. M. Bakhtin, theory of discourse, H. V. Geppert, realist novel, scientific research, archive, artistic research, information visualization
Published in RUNG: 12.04.2019; Views: 4410; Downloads: 0
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