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Through live activation of an ecology of aesthetic research practices, the aim is to provide the conditions for acquiring evidence of a specific form of thinking: aesthetic thinking. The performed aesthetic research practices are not presented as illustrative examples but rather as ongoing processes of research, as aesthetic thinking in action.

Artistic researchers Emma Cocker, Alex Arteaga and Nicole Wendel have worked together collaboratively (also with Sabine Zahn) since 2019. See https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1190257/1299139

What aspect of your research is most connected to this political/cultural moment?

To practice and to reflect aesthetic thinking through aesthetic thinking contributes to destabilize the hegemonic epistemic paradigms and, furthermore, epistemology as theoretical framework. We understand these processes as a contribution to disclose new forms of transformative understanding in order to approach the current collective crises in more skillful ways.

Proscenium is a video artwork that unfolds across the urban landscapes and anonymous virtual locations. Using experimental editing techniques, it explores the collapse of "real" and virtual space by combining a narrated essay with visuals that activate the viewer’s perceptual and physical responses.

Allyson Packer is an artist whose work examines our embodied relationship to a dematerializing world. She lives in Brooklyn, NY and is represented by birds+Richard gallery in Berlin.

What is most urgent to you in your research right now?

My research concerns the ways we negotiate our physical relationship to an increasingly immaterial reality. In my video and installations, I enlist the viewer’s perception as a way to more critically understand ourselves as both subjects and agents, upholding the centrality of embodied experience in a dematerializing world.

The presentation will consist of a reflection on the methodology of a research-based artistic project on the digital phenomenology of a two-decade long email archive done on the occasion of a quarter-century of Internet experience in India. It will be followed by a short experimental video art piece resulting from the project.

I have taught at various film institutes in India. Video art, films shown in galleries and film festivals internationally. Presented papers at international conferences.
kkjaiswal.academia.edu/DGanguly

What is most urgent to you in your research right now?

The important research question for me is how to qualify cinematic experience, temporalities in terms of intersubjective and intermedial positioning, through blending of discourses of both the rational and rhetorical order. I look forward to a much needed, and much delayed phenomenological turn, to track the multi-modal digital becomings of self.

This Fan is a desktop performance in which the artist manipulates found YouTube ceiling fan videos.  Sometimes the videos feature techno music and video effects, sometimes they seem borderline unintentional.  As the performance goes on these videos are used to build mesmerizing audiovisual collages, ultimately winding back around to show the overlap between artist and YouTuber.

Dina Kelberman’s work is based in the recontextualization of found media, often accumulating digital content into monuments displaying the human need to connect, create, and destroy.   She lives online at https://dinakelberman.com.

How has this time of Covid-19 affected your research questions and/or methods.

This project and its subjects were analogous; people stuck inside trying to find ways to connect across the internet. As an introvert I felt a freedom in lockdown, exhilarated by the fact that I was now allowed to delve into this keyword without the distractions of “real life.” The ceiling fan people seemed to have already found a similar freedom. This Fan suggests we may not be as alone as we sometimes feel.

Using VR DESCENDANTS Portals as a case study, we allow for an open-dialectical discussion about the future of moving images, their actuality/function, and how Extended Realities (VR-MR-AR), real-time technologies, or game engines are useful tools for the creation of emergent narrative mediums.

Creative Director at Lyrical Lab Studios. Architect, writer-director, and production designer. Working on design, visual storytelling, and the construction spaces (physical/virtual/cinematic).

What is most urgent to you in your research right now?

We are in a moment similar to the very beginning of storytelling when we want to make sense of the world around us. We have to make sense of a world around us that is unimaginable, complicated, difficult, unknown. We are grounding our contemporary culture. How do create new languages? How can our different “evolutions” start weaving together?

3 hour workshop.

Please note, limited seats. Your registration to this workshop is bounding. A unique link will be sent to you right before it takes place.

From Eucalyptus regnans of the Styx forest in Tasmania, to Fraxinus excelsior in Europe, Ashes to Ashes weaves poetic and haptic resonance to give voice to environmental grief. A performance and research project that asks: how do we practise the rites and rights of nature, and what is the agency of grief in the context of ecological crisis?

Julia Adzuki works with transformative processes and environmental grief through an embodied enquiry with resonance, across the fields of visual, performance and sound art.
www.juliaadzuki.com

What aspect of your research is most connected to this political/cultural moment?

Ecological grief is a psychological response to loss caused by environmental destruction or climate change. Although increasingly prevalent, there are no ready-made practices for mourning unprecedented ecological crisis. This research is focused on the effect of resonance and the development of participatory performance for grieving deforestation.

Storytelling in a creative environment creates aesthetics on various levels: visual, relational, and ethical, It provokes memories in how to think of the present life in hand, “the plant”. It suggests not to forget, but to think of the present life, the life that plant carries, that it will be nourished with care and love to grow even if it carries a stranger’s name.

https://khadijabaker.com/home.html

What aspect of your research is most connected to this political/cultural moment?

Dispelling Fears and Stereotypes Through Shared Stories, Memories, and Collective Creation. As we all know, Covid-19 limited access to public spaces and community encounters. I think going back to using oral stories to preserve the community’s relationships and connections is a way for our resistance eat time of isolation and after.

With this talk, I propose to materialize some of the language of philosophies of affect by anchoring them in specific artistic collaborations that use Mixed Reality technologies. This artistic research intervenes in the politics of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and surveillance in current digital cultures, opening up scope for new alliances.

Susan Kozel works at the convergence between philosophy, choreography and responsive digital technologies. She is a Professor of Dance, Philosophy and New Media at Malmö University (Sweden)

What is most urgent to you in your research right now?

It is most urgent for me to see the research come alive again, in the form of contact and exchanges. Preferably physical contact, but if this is not possible, it is important to create flow-through from the Zoom world back into social space. We need art to support peaceful exchanges and the kind of growth that does not drain the world's resources.

Artistic researchers Ester Martin Bergsmark and Carolina Jinde explore how an expanded understanding of listening can contribute to the filmmaking process, if and when given a more central role. Through their coinciding projects they experiment with workflows and playfully destabilize traditional production processes within film production in order for a richer multisensory transformative experience.

This is an ongoing research project conducted by filmmaker and doctoral candidate Ester Martin Bergsmark and sound designer and doctor in performative and media-based practices Carolina Jinde.

What is most urgent to you in your research right now?

Our project has generated many insights into the potentials of interdisciplinary collaboration in film making and reveals creative potentials of working with more circular processes in film making. We enhear a broadened understanding of imagery and the voice under of our work challenges the traditional position of the image as the carrier of truth.