Selected for three-year funding as an ERASMUS Academic Network, 2010-2013
ELIA and GradCAM, Dublin will jointly coordinate SHARE - Step-change Higher Arts Research Education. The European Commission has selected the project for structural funding over the period 2010-2013. 35 graduate schools and institutions engaged in third-cycle research in the arts take part. It was one of only eight academic networks to be selected, and the grant could count as a recognition of art and artistic research as a full academic discipline, its role in the creative economy, and of the need for further development of an international academic community and a coordinated approach towards research in the arts.
SHARE will start in October 2010.
SHARE will consist of three networks, working independently:
- A network of existing graduate schools to develop innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches and programmes of world-class excellence, building upon the current EARN European Artistic Research Network;
- A newly to form network for developing third-cycle education, providing information, support and a collaboration base for programmes in the start-up phase;
- A network of researchers and supervisors, continuing and expanding the EUFRAD forum for research degrees in arts and design.
truus.ophuysen [at] elia-artschools.org
Launched for wide consultation on 27 April
Update: ELIA's commments on the Green Paper
For the first time ever a European Policy Paper on the cultural and creative industries has been published. It is also for the first time that it mentions the role of the art schools. The Green Paper Unlocking the Potential of Cultural and Creative Industries, aims a debate on requirements of a stimulating creative environment for the cultural and creative industries. It includes multiple perspectives, ranging from creating a business environment to the need to open up a common European space for culture, to capacity building and skills development.
Key issues for higher arts education in the document center on ‘a possible mismatch between the supply of skills and the demand of the labour market to boost the sector’s creative potential’. It also mentions the need for
- new spaces for experimentation, innovation and entrepreneurship;
- how creative workers and related institutions such as art and design schools can operate in clusters;
- a stronger research and development aspect of creativity and creation;
- partnerships between art and design schools and businesses in order to transfer creative knowledge such as design into other sectors
- e-skills and business competences;
- Peer coaching (= upgrading of skills through exchange between peers, facing the same challenges) is seen as a very useful instrument to speed up change
Green Paper: Unlocking the Potential of Cultural and Creative Industries
ELIA's comments on the Green Paper
Contact Truus Ophuysen for more information:
truus.ophuysen [at] elia-artschools.org
Nantes, France, 26-30 October 2010
What is the NEU/NOW Festival?
The NEU/NOW Festival is an innovative platform for talented graduating or recent graduate artists – coming out of Higher Arts Education Institutions and Universities across Europe and beyond – to present themselves to a wider international audience within professional contexts. The Festival features the most excellent new artists now entering the professional arts arenas and will be a showcase of emerging creative talent.
The NEU/NOW Festival is:
- an online festival and a live event that promotes artistic excellence through cutting edge presentations and activities in a range of art disciplines;
- an opportunity for selected emerging artists to show their work, meet each other and create new international partnerships;
- a place where audiences, producers and curators can see the most excellent artists and innovative projects coming from art schools and universities across Europe and beyond;
- a forum where artists, producers, curators, cultural operators and policy makers can discuss future developments for the arts and share views on the cultural role of higher arts education institutions;
- a means of presenting new international generation of professional artists to the attention of a wide audience.
The NEU/NOW Live Festival 2010 will be hosted by the vibrant city of Nantes in France in the frame of the ELIA Biennial Conference, that will attract around 500 delegates from all over the world.
The NEU/NOW Festival will be online at www.neunow.eu , widely accessible to arts professionals and public alike.
Read more >>
Nantes, France, 27 – 30 October 2010
Following the success of the ELIA Biennial Conference in Gothenburg in 2008 (hosted by the University of Gothenburg), we are pleased to announce that the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux – Art de Nantes Metropole has invited ELIA to hold its 11th Biennial Conference in the elegant and dynamic city of Nantes, France. The conference will take place at the Lieu Unique (LU), located in the middle of Nantes and surrounded by the city’s art schools and cultural institutions.
Under the title (h)eART(h) - l’art au coeur du territoire, five perspectives on the role of the Arts and Higher Art Education will be addressed in symposia and discipline sessions:
- Arts at the heart of the "way of living", questioning behaviours.
- Arts encourage the emergence of contributors in place of consumers.
- Arts name and identify territories.
- Arts meet science and question environments.
- Arts reinvent and "moralize" customs.
ELIA is partner in an international project, funded by the Dutch government, to develop the Artistic Research Catalogue (ARC). ARC is a web-based repository (in the making), which will serve to expose, document, stage, communicate and disseminate artistic research by students, independent artists and art institutes world wide. The research catalogue software will provide the backbone for the international Journal for Artistic Research, which was founded on 5-6 March 2010 in Bern, Switzerland. For more information on the research catalogue and the Journal for Artistic Research, please visit: www.jar-online.net.
Earlier the ELIA Board expressed serious concerns about the plans to develop a European approach to ranking of universities. The Board strongly feels that a system of University Ranking, in whatever form, could have a damaging effect on the higher arts education sector in Europe as a whole. The Board decided to discuss this issue with an open mind at the Biennial Conference in Nantes, October 2010 both at one of the symposia and at the General Assembly and to prepare an information and strategy paper for further discussion.
In Nantes, project leader Frans van Vught of two major current European ranking projects U-map and U-multirank will inform us about the European ranking initiatives, developing and testing an alternative design for a global university ranking, avoiding the flaws and deficits of existing international rankings and providing a more fair comparison of institutions. A round table with representatives from AEC, CUMULUS, CILECT and ELIA will discuss implications for higher arts education.
The project U-Multirank is in a feasibility phase and will be tested on 150 universities on a global scale. Several stakeholder organisations among them ELIA an AEC indicated that they would like to have more influence on the choice of indicators. For that reason, the project developed an on-line questionnaire as an opportunity to give more in-depth feedback to the project.
The questionnaire consists of two parts.
The first part comprises indicators for institutional rankings subdivided into five dimensions: teaching & learning, research, knowledge transfer, international orientation, and regional engagement.
The second part is on indicators for field-based rankings for the areas of business and engineering. Please ignore the second part. You are invited to prioritize the indicators within each dimension and to comment on the individual indicators.
Please take this opportunity to react on behalf of higher arts education and to provide the U-Multirank project with the feedback you think is important.
You can find the questionnaire here >>
You can interrupt answering the questions and resume later. You can find a printable version of the questionnaire at www.cheps.org/UMR_stakeholder_indicator.doc
For more information, please contact:
Ulf Dalnäs: Ulf.Dalnas [at] konst.gu.se
Truus Ophuysen: truus.ophuysen [at] elia-artschools.org
Further reading:
The European Commission’s tools to enhance transparency
U-Multirank
Zurich, 2-4 December 2009
Papers from the ELIA Leadership Symposium are now on download at the LS site.
You can also find pictures of the event here >>
www.elialeadershipsymposium.org
Sofia, Bulgaria, 1-4 July
Keynotes and presentations from the ELIA Teachers' Academy are now on download at the TA site.
You can also find pictures of the event here >>
www.eliateachersacademy.org
Erasmus Intensive Program
Vienna, Austria, 30 August - 10 September 2010
Improvisatory performances and workshops based on stage scenery with dance, acting and music students from four countries
Concluding performances: 9 and 10 September 2010, 7:30 p.m.
The acting and dance departments of Konservatorium Wien University conceived of and created the Erasmus intensive program Durch das Bild – Through the Image. The Secret of My Bag. This program is currently being conducted together with the partner universities Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Dijon, the Academy of Performing Arts Bratislava and Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Istanbul. It began in the autumn of 2009 and will continue until September 2010 (with an intensive phase taking place in Vienna from 30 August 2010 to 10 September 2010), and its funding has come in large part from EU grants.
The objective is to have participants explore European forms of contemporary dance and improvisation in the areas of acting, instrumental music and singing via an innovative approach based on a model that consists in a series of images — which are dealt with first in day-to-day study and, later on, in special workshops and seminars.
The program’s results will be communicated on the international level via DVD presentations.
www.konservatorium-wien.ac.at
Guildford, UK, 1-3 September 2010
This conference is organised by the University of Surrey and serves as the mid-term conference for the European Sociological Association’s Research Network on the Sociology of the Arts. It will be held in Guildford, England from 1-3 September 2010.
The Research Network aims to provide the sociological context for understanding the multi-faceted and interwoven social aspects which characterize the artistic world. The theme of the Guildford conference asks us to look from the present to the future. The conference also aims to be inclusive and will include papers on many topics within the sociology of the arts.
esa2010.surrey.ac.uk
Brighton, UK, 1-3 September 2010
The University of Brighton’s 1st Postgraduate Conference in the Arts will take place in the Sallis Benney Theatre, Grand Parade between 1st – 3rd September, 2010.
Students will get the opportunity to present at the event, which will adopt the format of an academic conference. The conference will provide an ideal opportunity to share research ideas across the faculty whilst allowing students to fufill their Code of Practice commitment to share their research with a wide audience. Students can present any dimension of their research to be agreed in conjunction with their supervisors. The intention is that academic staff attend the conference alongside postgraduates so ensuring a conducive cross-disciplinary environment for students to receive critical feedback on your developing project and practice.
In addition to the main conference presentations which will be organised thematically there will also be plenary sessions of interest to postgraduate students across the faculty. The conference will also provide invaluable social opportunities to share experiences with fellow MPhil/PhD students. Students will present for 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions. There will also be space provide for students wishing to exhibit their practice as part of a practice based PhD in addition/or where appropriate in place of the above presentation.
For further details about the event contact l.warming [at] brighton.ac.uk and c.j.singleton [at] brighton.ac.uk
artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research
Brussels, Belgium, 6-7 September 2010
The Council of Europe, in partnership with the European Commission, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), Culture Action Europe, the Budapest Observatory and International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies (IFACCA), is organising an international conference focusing on the theme of "Culture and the policies of change". The conference will take place from 6 to 7 September 2010 at the EESC’s Headquarters in Brussels, as one of a series of events being organised in the framework of the Council of Europe’s CultureWatchEurope initiative.
Culture and the policies of change will seek to explore not only the direct impact of the financial crisis on the cultural sector in terms of threats and losses, but also to question the state’s role as a substantial provider of culture. This theme touches on related issues such as the need to re-define certain current cultural practices, the changing roles of cultural institutions, and the potential of alternative governance models, new forms of partnerships and multi-stakeholder approaches to help meet the ensuing challenges. Related topics include possible new responsibility paradigms for culture and new frameworks for public policy in the cultural domain.
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Shanghai, China, 7-10 September 2010
Abstract deadline: 15 January 2010
Full paper deadline: 10 May 2010
The Cumulus Shanghai Conference 2010 will be hosted by College of Design & Innovation of Tongji University from 7-10 September during World EXPO 2010.
The conference aims to explore how the young generation of designers can improve our environment and life in creative ways. The emerging missions and visions of future design education, research and practice, together with its economic, political and social impacts of the era, will also be discussed during the conference.
Design educators, practitioners, and researchers are invited to join our cross-disciplinary conversation. Submitted work should relate to one or more of the sub-themes below:
- Sustainability & social innovation
- Local wisdom & globalization
- Socio-economics & design
- Old & young
www.cumulus2010tongji.org
Re-imagining the City Through Moving Images
Oslo, Norway, 9-10 September 2010
An International Symposium at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts
The Urban Images symposium brings together an internationally renowned group of artists and scholars for a two-day program in order to discuss the field of artistic film and video related to architecture and urban space. The objective of the symposium is to expand theoretical concepts and artistic tools for understanding the inherent qualities of moving images and its relationship to urban culture. The program touches upon moving images' influence on urban architecture, urban architecture's relationship to avant-garde film, the city as a source for artistic film and video, and reflections on urban architecture in recent film and video art.
Considering the globally expanding urban developments and the increasingly fluid borders between research in architecture and moving images, this symposium presents an important cross-disciplinary research in the fields of architecture and visual practice. Bearing in mind Gilles Deleuze's sensitivity to the ways in which contemporary culture is becoming fundamentally an audiovisual culture, the symposium will outline ontological and psychological relationships to moving images in the context of urban environment.
The following people will present their most recent research in this field: Parveen Adams, Bull.Miletic, Giuliana Bruno, Andreas Bunte, Beatriz Colomina, Mark Cousins, Edward Dimendberg, Tom Gunning, Henrik Gustafsson, Marit Paasche, Judy Radul and Susanne Østbye Sæther.
The papers and artistic presentations from the symposium will be published in a book scheduled for release in early 2011.
www.urbanimages.no
Essen, Germany, 13-15 September 2010
Arts for Education! generates public awareness for the topic of arts education, thus showcasing the great social importance of education and cultural work aimed at encouraging the creative independence of children and young people. The aim of the symposium is to promote exchange between and networks of international actors in the area of arts education on an academic, practical and political level.
Arts for Education! will examine, on the one hand, the question of political and public responsibility for arts education in Europe. It analyses on the other, the different forms that arts education can take. A third focus will be on children and young people as the target group for arts education work and on their needs and wishes.
In addition, Arts for Education! will seek answers to many as yet unresolved questions concerning the development and impact of arts education: Who is responsible for arts education? Where are the needs for political action? How can arts play a role in schools, the core domain of education? How would this affect everyday life and teaching in schools? Which specific qualities do artistic and aesthetic practice in the various art disciplines need to have in order to generate an effect? How are children and young people involved in arts education?
www.arts-for-education.de
unexpected variations
Ghent, Belgium, 15-17 september 2010
Following a successful edition last year, the Orpheus Research Centre in Music is proud to announce its second Research Festival. Rich in "unexpected variations" and displaying fireworks of music and ideas, this event is simply a must-do for any musician-researcher.
The ORCiM Research Festival in Music takes places from Wednesday evening September 15, 2010 through Friday September 17, 2010.
One can register until September 6, 2010 through the following registration form.
The number of participants is limited, so please mark these dates in your agenda and register in time.
www.orpheusinstituut.be
Stuttgart, Germany, 24-25 September 2010
Workshop in the context of the art, science & business program of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart and in cooperation with the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
Art research, artistic research, art-based research or research through, with, about arts are currently popular terms. However, one can speculate about what exactly is meant here, especially when following the international discussion of these terms.
The interdisciplinary workshop "Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science?" is situated within this discussion. Art research as "aesthetic science" is conceived as a process that utilizes artists’ specific knowledge, working methods, and competence and applies them to other contexts outside of the art system. It is neither research about art that then lies in the field of science of art, nor is it research with art that genuinely characterizes artistic production. Central to the discussion are forms of sensual insight that are combined with scientific practices to generate new knowledge.
Experts from the fields of art research, artistic practice, history of science, and philosophy will address these topics in four thematic panels:
- Theory (Prof. Dr. Gernot Böhme / Prof. Dr. Florian Dombois)
- Methods and Techniques of Insight (Dr. des. Jutta Voorhoeve / Prof. Dr. Martin Tröndle)
- Organization (Prof. Ursula Bertram / Prof. em. Dr. Wolfgang Krohn)
- Transfer (Prof. Adelheid Mers / Prof. Henk Borgdorff)
Évora, Portugal, 27 – 29 September 2010
Deadline for registration and abstracts: 30 July
Throughout the past decade, scenographic practice and performance design have continuously moved beyond the black box of the theatre toward a hybrid terrain located at the intersections of theatre, architecture, exhibition, visual arts, and media. Spaces that are at the same time hybrid, mediated, narrative, and transformative result from a trans-disciplinary understanding of space and a distinct awareness of social agency. These two factors of expansion may be regarded as the central driving forces in contemporary scenographic practice and thought.
In preparation for the Intersection Project in June 2011, the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space issues an invitation and a Call for Papers for 3 international scenography symposia held in Riga, Belgrade and Évora during 2010. The symposia will engage with notions of spectatorship, artists/authors, and curating in relation to the diverse artistic positions in contemporary spatial design. Scenography Expanding 1-3 will be followed up by a publication.
Scenography Expanding 3: On Curating
In the third and last symposium before the June 2011 Prague Quadrennial for Perfomance Design and Space (PQ), curators and artists from the performing arts, visual arts and spatial design disciplines are invited to enter into a transdisciplinary dialogue on the challenges of exhibiting the ephemeral, the fleeting, the immaterial – the performative event and the scenographic space.
Scenography Expanding 3 will be part of the Festival Escrita na Paisagem and Centro de História da Arte e Investigação Artística (CHAIA).
Deadline for registration and submission of abstracts: 30 July
www.intersection.cz
6-7 October, Brussels, Belgium
The European project Artists Moving & Learning final conference, 6-7 October, in Brussels, will offer you the opportunity to learn about the project’s comparative study analysing the impact of mobility of artists in ten EU Member States: Belgium, France, Hungary, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain and the UK.
Artists Moving & Learning analyses the impact of mobility of artists in Europe from an educational and lifelong learning perspective. What are the effects of their cross-border movements –as bursaries in artists’ residencies or as guest artists in festivals, museums or galleries? Does mobility boost the creativity and of artists? Can non-formal learning resulting from artistic mobility be formalised by integrating it into initial professional education for artists? How can instruments for life-long learning target better the needs of mobile artists?
The project partners have conducted interviews with artists from the performing and visual arts from the above mentioned EU countries. Their analysis of the interviews looks at different traditions of artistic mobility, studying their potential of learning effects to prepare artists for innovative leadership within the creative industries.
www.encatc.org/moving-and-learning/
Knowledge, competence and skills in the cultural field in 2020
ENCATC 18th Annual Conference & General Assembly
Brussels, Belgium, 7-8 October 2010
deadline for abstract submission: 15 August
The European network of higher educational institutions and training organisations (ENCATC) will host its Annual Conference and General Assembly in Brussels on the 7th and 8th of October under the title "Can I google it? Knowledge, competence and skills in the cultural field in 2020", organised in the framework of the Belgium Presidency of the European Union.
The main aim of the 2010 Conference is to analyse, debate and exchange with a number of representatives from European networks based in Brussels about future competences and skills required by the cultural sector in five / ten years time (i.e. which will be the skills and competences required to run a festival, a heritage site, a museum, a cultural center in five years time? What is the gap between the cultural profiles required by the sector and the education and training provided at the university?
Alongside this international conference ENCATC will also organize the 4th Forum of Young Cultural Policy Researchers; the 7th Cultural Policy Research Award Ceremony (CPRA); and the final conference of the European project “Artists Moving and Learning” (see above).
www.encatc.org
The time is now!
Brussels, Belgium, 7-9 October 2010
The Culture Action Europe conference has a long established tradition as the key focal point for cultural operators, civil society, experts and policy makers to come together and debate key issues at stake for Europe’s cultural life.
The conference will inspire, argue and debate what choices we make now and how they will alter the landscape of future EU policies for culture. It will try to embrace two interconnected visions: first, the contributions of arts and cultural sector to the vision of Europe in the future; second, the recognition and support for these contributions within the range of programmes and policies that the EU has to offer.
The conference programme on Thursday and Friday 7-8 October is open to the public while the Saturday programme on the 9th of October is open to Culture Action Europe members and invited guests only.
Speakers include Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Brigitta Englin, Bernard Foccroulle, Jan Goossens, Janusz Lewandowski, and Chris Torch.
www.cultureactioneuropeconference.eu
Brussels, Belgium, 15 October 2010
Does teaching matter?
The current concepts about world-class higher education are all research focused, using publications, citations and other indicators of research prowess. So does quality in teaching not matter? ACA believes it does. In the next ACA European Policy Seminar, World-class: the brave new world of global higher education and research, the programme gives a prominent place to AHELO, the OECD’s ground-breaking initiative to assess learning outcomes internationally and comparatively. The one and only Dirk van Damme of OECD will present the pilot project.
The seminar World-class: the brave new world of global higher education and research will introduce and critically assess the paradigm of the world-class university. It will also explore its deficits, by looking into the need for educational quality across the board, by analysing the links between the world-class concepts and the emergence of international league tables, national approaches to building excellence and, indeed, teaching.
www.aca-secretariat.be
Basel, Switzerland, 28-30 October 2010
The Academy of Art and Design FHNW in Basel and the Swiss Design Network are pleased to invite you to participate in the 6th Annual Swiss Design Network Conference in Basel, Switzerland, October 28-30, 2010.
The SDN Conference belongs to the leading European design research conferences and brings together scholars, professionals and students who come from diverse backgrounds and share interests in design and design research. The 2010 conference theme addresses the topic of "negotiating futures. design fiction." It builds on the assumption, that designers see the world not simply as it is, but rather as it could be. In this perspective, the world is a laboratory to explore the contingency of the existing and the thinking in options. Imaginations of the contra factual are a key source for the creation of alternative political, technological, social, or economic constellations of artefacts, interfaces, signs, actors, and spaces. At the same time, strategies of materialization are pivotal to shift the boundary between the fictional and the real and to finally bring possible new realities into being. The conference therewith addresses the question of how fictions are designed and how the multiplicity of possible new futures is negotiated and realized. Keynote speakers include James Auger, Julian Bleecker, Ruth Durrer, Franz Liebl and Alexandra Midal.
www.sdn2010.ch
London, UK, 29-30 October 2010
This major international and multidisciplinary conference seeks to engage with questions regarding the role of arts and cultural activity in civil society.
Hosted by Southbank Centre and Goldsmiths, University of London, the TAKING PART conference will share research findings; it will hear about the wide range of national and international arts practice engaging directly with the community, creating new contexts for debate and animating the dialogue in challenging and exciting ways.
It will provide a unique opportunity to strengthen links and develop a shared understanding between third sector organisations and those working in arts and participation.
The two days will offer opportunities to share effective practice, listen to keynote speakers and contribute to the thinking; but shared through the creative methods of World Cafe, Open Space Technology and pecha-cucha.
And, there will be plenty of time for the kinds of informal networking and exchanges that help to create new partnerships and consolidate old ones.
2 days conference attendance: £50 for individuals and £75 for organisations
1 day conference attendance (either day): £30
www.gold.ac.uk/taking-part/
Istanbul, Turkey, 4-6 November 2010
The 2nd FORMER WEST Research Congress is developed by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht and SKOR, Foundation Art and Public Space, Amsterdam, and realized in collaboration with IKSV Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul. The Research Congress is hosted by Istanbul Technical University.
The 2nd FORMER WEST Research Congress is part of the research trajectory of FORMER WEST, a project that investigates, in the field of contemporary art, the (not-yet-fully acknowledged) impact of the seismic shifts brought about by the events of 1989 in the so-called West and beyond, and engages in imagining a possible future of "one world," beyond the inequalities which continue to define our current condition. The 2nd Congress aims at rendering visible FORMER WEST's artistic, curatorial, and academic research to date in order to negotiate its most urgent questions with the public and within the concrete artistic, social, and political conditions of Istanbul and Turkey. While the 1st Congress (Utrecht, 2009) mapped and analyzed artistic, theoretical, historical, and political developments of the last twenty years with respect to the problematic of the West's "formerness," the 2nd Congress is oriented towards future perspectives, and speculates about how to move beyond the notion of a "loss of horizon," which has come to characterize our contemporary world.
www.formerwest.org
construction of identities
Granada, Spain, 5-7 November 2010
Organized by the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Granada, the conference Art, Illustration and Visual Culture in Infant and Primary Education: construction of identities intends to analyse the theoretical and practical aspects of using Art in general and Contemporary Art in particular, Illustration and Literature (as an accompaniment of illustration) in Infant and Primary Education, highlighting their implications on the construction of the cultural identity of the children of contemporary society.
The basic idea is that Art products and illustrations act as intermediaries of cultural representations, as they are part of our visual culture. Visual culture and these representations help children become acquainted with the world and its realities, additionally to those they already experience themselves, and intervene in the development of their cultural identity. This is the reason they understand Art and its representations as a network of meanings to be interpreted, which makes them consider the different ways we can discuss, think of and react to them.
www.congresoarteilustracion.org
Lyon, France, 18-20 November
Call for Contributions
Deadline: 26 July
The 5th European Quality Assurance Forum, Building bridges: making sense of QA in European, national and institutional contexts, will take place on 18-20 November 2010 and will be hosted by University Claude Bernard Lyon I, France.
As in previous years, the organisers (the E4 Group: EUA, ESU, ENQA, EURASHE) are seeking contributions. Proposals are welcome in three different formats: papers, workshop propositions, and as proposals for holding a stand in the Forum Café. The latter involves sharing an example of practice in QA in an informal and networking context, while paper and workshop proposals might delve deeper into how QA tools and processes relate to European and national policy discussions or interact with institutional quality frameworks and quality culture.
The deadline for contributions is 26 July 2010.
www.eua.be
Joanne.Byrne [at] eua.be
Towards a Citizens’ Europe
Berlin, Germany, 20 November 2010
The Berlin Conference 2010 starts from the premise that there is no struggle between cultures in Europe, but rather a struggle for Europe and its culture. Giving Europe a Soul implies that culture contains a fundamental potential for activating the European citizen.
The understanding of citizenship is undergoing a historic transformation in Europe. But Europe has yet to fully realize any new conceptions of citizenship or of culture to replace the old. The consequences are there for all to see: identity crises in many parts of Europe are bringing a return to nationalism, a closing of Europe’s borders, and increasingly hostile conditions for migrants and minority cultures.
With a participation of cultural and renowned political figures from the five continents, the conference approaches two key considerations for the cultural and political future of Europe and will formulate specific proposals in the following areas:
- A Europe of Citizens: How can citizens play a bigger role in creating Europe? How can political decision-making be influenced? How should the cultural base of this action be understood and fostered? What is the role of civic education, of civil society, of the business sectors and of the institutions in bringing this about?
- Cultural Europe for Global Citizens: How does culture inform the global action of Europe? How can culture increasingly become a beneficent factor in all fields of politics and society? In what ways could a transformed understanding of culture inside Europe provide the basis for transformative action in the world?
Saint-Étienne, France, 17 November - 5 December 2010
The theme of the 6th edition of the Saint-Étienne International Design Biennial will be around Teleportation. It will deal with an extreme view of our society, a kind of ideal (or not) that we could yearn for and that could solve many issues related to ecological emergencies, mobility, and time pressure. Working from home, transferring data and documents to work - that’s all very fine, until the system breaks down, and you suddenly find yourself wishing you could just snap and be there.
Teleportation appears a reasonable dream to have. On the other hand, when such a dream comes true, time will accelerate. Movement will become dematerialized. We may lose our marks, if not our identity.
Different themes may be developed around the subject of teleportation. Ubiquity. Mobility. The world getting smaller as we travel faster and faster. Visiting new potential life spaces (under the sea, off the ground, on new planets). Virtuality, making reality double. Time T. Changes in space and time, or on the contrary, the concept of durability, anchorage to the ground and by extension, comfort.
Physical teleportation may not be real yet but communication tools do enable us to teleport in a way and to mentally travel to any places around the world. We can ‘be’ anywhere anytime, living in a boundless parallel world that we built. These are paths the 2010 Biennial intends to explore.
www.citedudesign.com
Call for applications
European Artistic Research Network @ Manifesta 8
Murcia, Spain, 2-5 December 2010
‘As the Academy Turns’ – the EARN Winter School during Manifesta 8 Murcia December 2010 – is a unique experiment at the intersection of artistic research, contemporary art, and the new art academy practices that have emerged across Europe in the last decade. ‘As the Academy Turns’ is a multilayered project exploring the potentials and the tensions in the growth of artistic research and the current ‘academization’ of art education. This ‘academicisation’ of art is increasingly marked by the strong expectation of research trajectories and how these will be shaped within the changing institutional framework of art education. In that context, the present possibilities of PhD research within visual art are particularly at the center of attention and debate.
During the three-day symposium a series of exemplary research projects from prominent European art academies will be presented and discussed. The researchers involved include practitioners based in MaHKU, KUVA, Malmo, Gothenburg, CePRA, GradCAM and other academies across Europe (full list posted shortly). Their presentations will be critically addressed by a number of invited respondents including Sarat Maharaj, Tom Holert, Hito Steyerl, Mick Wilson, Marquard Smith, and Jan Kaila.
www.artresearch.eu
Helsinki, Finland, 13-15 January 2011
Deadline: 1 September
The Performing Arts Research Centre at the Theatre Academy Helsinki invites artistic researchers at doctoral and post-doctoral levels to take part in the second biannual colloquium on artistic research in performing arts, which will focus on
Artistic Research in Action
CARPA 2 will take the form of a collective laboratory in which participants are invited to share their research as it takes place and unfolds. The colloquium will explore the borderline between artistic research and action research. According to our working hypothesis, an artistic researcher transforms his/her artistic medium into a medium of research. ‘Medium’ is here understood as both the means and the object of reflection. Artistic research can claim validity only through taking place in action.
Presentations can take the form of:
installation | experiment | workshop | performance | rehearsal | exercise | discussion | test | ...
We kindly encourage you to submit a proposal for presentation. Proposals should include a purpose statement, research topic or research questions, a description of the arrangement of the presentation and any practical requirements (space, equipment and so on).
Please send proposals via email to carpa [at] teak.fi no later than 1 September 2010.
Applicants will be informed of their acceptance by 15 September 2010 and asked to confirm their participation by 15 November 2010.
The purpose of CARPA is to contribute to the development of artistic research practices in the field of the performing arts and to foster their social, pedagogical and ecological connections.
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