Workshops
In English, free entry, limited seating available
Also online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89161003710?pwd=feXPdTomAVzmWG1HkSsuQ16b9B5KoR.1
The idea that there is no hermetic barrier between artistic creation, scientific research and technical development is nowadays accepted. Artistic research or "research-creation" programs have been established for several decades now in various artistic, academic and technological institutions. However, it is often difficult to reconcile different epistemic, aesthetic and institutional standards, depending on each context, trajectories and standpoints. In the face of criticism that these initiatives are doomed to produce insipid art or bad science, what principles, approaches and models would help structure this family of projects and provide the operational epistemology it needs? What lessons can we draw from the experiences, positive and negative, gathered in the field?
Program
9h30-10h | Welcome
10h-10h20 | Introduction
with Frédéric Bevilacqua, research director and head of the Sound Music Movement Interaction team at Ircam's STMS laboratory, Benjamin Matuszewski, researcher in the Sound Music Movement Interaction team at Ircam's STMS laboratory, Pierre Saint-Germier, CNRS research fellow in philosophy, assigned to the Analysis of Musical Practices team at Ircam's STMS laboratory.
10:20-11:20 Contemporary Research: Issues of Articulation
with Michael Schwab, artist-researcher.
Break
11:45-12:45 | Artistic research in dance making and technology design
with Sarah Fdili Alaoui, professor at the Creative Computing Institute, University of the Arts London, and HDR lecturer at Université Paris Saclay.
Break
14h15-15h15 | Research-creation, Paradigm and Valuation
with Yves Citton, Professor of Literature and Media at the University of Paris Vincennes-Saint Denis.
15h15-16h15 | HEARTSS ❤️ engineering: cyborgs, waves, tents, pirates...
with Lilyana V. Petrova, artist-researcher, lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure de l'Électronique et de ses Applications, and member of the Équipe Traitement de l'information et des systèmes (ETIS), Sylvain Reynal, lecturer in epistemology at the Équipe Traitement de l'information et des systèmes (ETIS), artist-researcher affiliated with the Design-STS research group at ETIS, Lili M. Rampre, doctoral student at CY Cergy-Paris University, part of the STS/Design group at ETIS.
Break
16h30-17h30 | Round table
Organised by the Interaction son musique mouvement and Analyse des pratiques musicales teams at Ircam's STMS laboratory.
Frédéric Bevilacqua, research director and head of the Sound Music Movement Interaction team at Ircam's STMS laboratory.
Benjamin Matuszewski, researcher in the Sound Music Movement Interaction team at Ircam's STMS laboratory.
Pierre Saint-Germier, CNRS research fellow in philosophy, assigned to the Analysis of Musical Practices team in Ircam's STMS laboratory
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Abstracts
Michael Schwab, Contemporary Research: Issues of Articulation
In most cases, artistic research still has to navigate a tension between epistemic and artistic demands. Occupying a middle ground is often not satisfactory leading to questions regarding the quality of artistic research outputs either in terms of science or art. Rather than accepting the existing frameworks, my work in the context of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) has focussed on the possibility that each articulation of research in the arts could propose its own frameworks thus challenging, in specific articulations of research, conventions of both knowledge and art. My talk will explain how this position can link developments in historical epistemology as well as contemporary art leading to a different assessment of the labour of artistic research.
Sarah Fdili Alaoui, Artistic research in dance making and technology design
In this talk, I will describe several projects where I intersected performance and dance with interaction design. I will detail my methodological approach deploying artistic research to choreograph dance pieces integrating interactive technologies to provoke theoretical methodological and critical questions. While providing poetic experiences, my artworks enact experimental situations that enable reflections on how art can contribute to knowledge or how humans co-exist with each other and with technologies to emerge.
Yves Citton, Recherche-création, Paradigm and Valuation
This presentation will attempt to assess how the practices of "recherche-création" (art-based research) tend to destabilize and dynamize disciplinary paradigms of research, how they question the modalities and criteria through which academic scholarly work can be evaluated, and how this questioning is particularly interesting and needed to bifurcate away from the extractivist dead-end of the Capitalocene.
Lilyana V. Petrova, Syd Reynal & Lili M. Rampre, HEARTSS ❤️ engineering: cyborgs, vagues, tents, pirats…
This talk aims to synthesise the work produced within the ETIS cybernetics laboratory by its STS crew of artist-researchers. We will present a brief chronology of the group's birth and we will describe some of our ongoing projects and questions. How do we all work together with/against/across our individual practices? How does this body of work interact with other artists, scholars and the institution? How does this interaction create an intimate transdisciplinarity?