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.
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
This type of paper is submitted without artworks and will be not be part of the exhibition.
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Please submit your full paper as a Word or PDF document through the system. If you have chosen the explorative paper category and have an art work that you would like to show in the exhibition, please send the plans for your artwork to be exhibited in relation to your paper directly to the Exhibition Chair Anna Kholina by e-mail (anna.kholina@aalto.fi).