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Category Archives: Research as a Mode of Operation

Artistic Research: Anatomy of an Ascent

By tom holert | Published: September 14, 2011
by Tom Holert, Published in Texte Zur Kunst - Issue Nr. 82 / June 2011 "Artistic Research"
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Audio: Michelle Kuo: Research and Development. Experiments in Art and Technology

By tom holert | Published: June 9, 2011
Michelle Kuo (New York): Research and Development. Experiments in Art and Technology, 1966ff. Lecture Audio: Lecture (on invitation by Tom Holert), June 22, 2010, 7 p.m. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Room M20 Schillerplatz 3 A-1010 Vienna “Art” and “research” have, throughout modernity, been divided—one aesthetic, the other technological; one autonomous, the other applied.  But in *** read more ***
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Audio: Adrian Rifkin – Imperfecting Practice, Implicating Theory

By tom holert | Published: May 31, 2011
Part 1: Part 2 : 13.04.2011, 7 p.m. DG14/Turm 4 (top floor, then go up the staircase by room 214) Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna Lecture held in English, presented and hosted by “Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts”, a research project funded by WWTF Art(s) & Sciences and based *** read more ***
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Audio: Simon Sheikh: A Conceptual History of Exhibition-making

By tom holert | Published: May 21, 2011
Simon Sheikh (Berlin/Malmö): A Conceptual History of Exhibition-making Lecture Audio: Lecture (on invitation by Tom Holert), May 6, 2010, 7 p.m. Academy of Fine Arts Vienna Room M13 Schillerplatz 3 Since 1989, we have not only seen (geo)political and cultural changes in Europe, former west and east alike, but also a renewed interest in the *** read more ***
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Armin Medosch | Automation, Cybernation and the Art of New Tendencies (1961-1973): Art as Visual Research

By tom holert | Published: April 9, 2011
Wednesday, 11.05.2011, 7 p.m. DG14/Turm 4 (top floor, then go up the staircase by room 214) Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna Armin Medosch’s lecture, organised by the WWTF Art(s) and Sciences research project “Troubling Research. Performing Knowledge in the Arts”, will be based on his PhD thesis-in-progress “Automation, Cybernation and the  *** read more ***
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artistic research quotes

By tom holert | Published: February 25, 2011
Allan Kaprow “Allan Kaprow has been preaching since 1964 that pure research should be propelled in art and art education like it is in any other academic field, and avant guarde-think-tank should be mobilized to vitalize the often too cautious academic community. […] Kaprow’s far-sight to modulate the avant guarde invention into the ‘outer space’ *** read more ***
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Research as a Mode of Operation: Knowledge Production and (Self)Empowerment in an Art Historical Perspective

By tom holert | Published: February 25, 2011
The current discourse about research in the arts suspiciously lacks almost any historical perspective, as if the contemporary situation were unprecedented. Arguably, this apparent lack provides the proponents of the research-driven art university with the authority of an academic (and quintessentially Western) research ethics and imbues them with the status of inventors of a ‘new’ *** read more ***
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