Workshop - November 8 2024 - Between Research and Artistic Creation: Epistemologies, Models, Practices.

[Frederic Bevilacqua]

Workshop/Symposium

Between Research and Artistic Creation: Epistemologies, Models, Practices.

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?

November 8 2024 

Salle Stravinsky, IRCAM

1 Place Igor Stravinsky, 75004 Paris

in English, free entry, limited seating available

Also online : https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89161003710?pwd=feXPdTomAVzmWG1HkSsuQ16b9B5KoR.1

Program

Morning

9h30-10h Welcome (coffee)

10h-10h20 Introduction: Pierre Saint-Germier, Frédéric Bevilacqua, Benjamin Matuszewski

10h20-11h20 Contemporary Research: Issues of Articulation, Michael Schwab

break

11h45-12h45 Artistic research in dance making and technology design, Sarah Fdili Alaoui

Afternoon

14h15-15h15 Recherche-création, Paradigm and Valuation, Yves Citton

15h15-16h15 HEARTSS ❤️ engineering: cyborgs, vagues, tents, pirats…, Lilyana V. Petrova, Syd Reynal & Lili M. Rampre

break

16h30-17h30 Round-table. 

 

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? 

More information at 

https://www.ircam.fr/agenda/entre-recherche-et-creation-epistemologies-modeles-pratiques/detail#

Thanks to Brigitte Cruz-Barney, Eric de Gélis, Mary Delacour, Pauline Destouches  (Ircam), the support of the STMS Lab, Ircam - CNRS - Sorbonne Université - Ministère de la Culture and the project DOTS (ANR-22-CE33-0013-01).