The planned aim of the symposium is to bring closer the actual international
theoretical approaches related to this issue to the Hungarian professional
public. The actuality and need for such a discourse is gaining more importance
also due to the confusing status of the recently established academic degrees
(such as PHD or DLA) in the art academies throughout Europe.
Besides this, in the last decade
many research institutes have been established, approaching this link from
the point of view of the new communication technologies. By inviting both
artists and scholars the symposium makes an attempt to present this parallelism
of the relationship art-research, focusing on the following questions:
What are the similarities and
differences between the historical and the present content of the notion "artistic
research" and where can the borders of artistic "production" and "research"
be drawn?
What were/are the methodological
and conceptual connections between art and science, what role the language
plays in artistic research?
Is it possible to speak about
"research" in the case of an artistic practice which deals with conventional
mediums or has it relevance only in interdisciplinary context?
Is there any discipline able
to host this activity such as: artistic practice itself, aesthetics, cultural
sciences, computer sciences, sociology, philosophy? How can the research widen
its perspective without loosing its autonomy?
What type of institution is entitled
to legitimate and form the background of "artistic research": art academies,
independent research institutes, museums, galleries, art laboratories, festivals?
What is the composition of the
scientific community that would legitimate the outcome of such an activity:
scholars, university professors, art historians, artists, scientists?