Between Research and 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?
Program
9:30-10:00am | Welcome
10:00-10:20am | Introduction
with Frédéric Bevilacqua researcher and head of the Sound Music Motion Interaction team in the STMS lab at IRCAM
Benjamin Matuszewski researcher in the Sound Music Motion Interaction team in the STMS lab at IRCAM
Pierre Saint-Germier CNRS researcher in philosophy, in Analysis of Musical Practices team in the STMS lab at IRCAM
10:20-11:20am | Contemporary Research: Issues of Articulation
with Michael Schwab artist and artistic researcher
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.
Coffee break
11:45am-12:45pm | Artistic research in dance making and technology design
with Sarah Fdili Alaoui reader at the Creative Computing Institute at the University of the Arts London and and an associate professor HDR at Université Paris Saclay
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.
Break
2:15-3:15pm | Recherche-création, Paradigm and Valuation
with Yves Citton professor in Literature and Media at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint Denis
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.
3:15-4:15pm | HEARTSS ❤️ engineering: cyborgs, vagues, tents, pirats…
with Lilyana V. Petrova artist and researcher and Associate Professor of Digital Humanities & Arts at ENSEA Graduate School of EE and is affiliated to the Design-STS research group at ETIS (CNRS/ENSEA/CY Cergy-Paris University)
Syd Associate Professor of Epistemology at ENSEA, and artist-researcher affiliated to the Design-STS research group at ETIS (CNRS/ENSEA/CY Cergy-Paris University)
Lili M. Rampre PhD student at CY Cergy-Paris University, working within STS/Design group at ETIS
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?
Break
4:30-5:30pm | Round-table
Organization
Organized by the Interaction Sound Music Movement and Analysis of Musical Practices teams of IRCAM's STMS joint laboratory:
Frédéric Bevilacqua research director and head of the STMS lab's Sound Music Motion Interaction team at IRCAM
Benjamin Matuszewski researcher in the STMS lab's Sound Music Movement Interaction team at IRCAM
Pierre Saint-Germier CNRS research fellow in philosophy, assigned to the Analysis of Musical Practices team in the STMS joint lab at IRCAM.
With the support of the STMS lab with Ircam, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Ministère de la Culture, and the DOTS project (ANR-22-CE33-0013-01).