Download - Honours Programme Art and Research
Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Art and Research2007 (apr 2008- dec 2011)
Jennifer Kanary
artistic researcher part-time PhD Candidate Plymouth University Planetary Collegium, M-Node (2006-...)
Honours Programme
The Honours Programme Art and Research
- 18 – 20 students
- every discipline is welcome
- half artists half scientists
- students have to have a certain grade average or
recommendation from their teachers
- students write a motivation letter
- final selection via interviews
- programme is taught in English
- lasts 12 – 14 months
- meet 1x week (Friday afternoons) from 13.00 – 16.30
- students work 1,5 days a week average
- 30 ects points (do not count towards their studies)
Website:
“ Students are primarily taught to discover and develop new, unorthodox ways of collaborating and new ways of conducting artistic and scientific research.”
http://www.gerritrietveldacademie.nl/en/honours-programme1?chln=1
Send them to Spain!
1 week at EuroLab (Humberto Schwab) - Socratic Dialogue- workshop imagined futures
Catalyzing a group of people to be social thinking 'systems'
Spainmain research topic
sub-research topic
sub-research topic
sub-research topic
- shared central theme- divide sub themes together
allows students to shift with out loss of research
Sub-themes:
- Around Absorption- War and Symbolism
Research group questions:
- What happened to the BIG questions?- Can you Kill Language?
Teachers- are guiding mentors- give limited amount of presentations and workshops how to write a research proposal?what is artistic research?what is scientific research?
- feedback- sparring partner- provides challenges- design educational experiments (there is room for education as an artform)
Be fexible and reactive to the needs of the students research projects
Spainmain research topic
sub-research topic
sub-research topic
sub-research topic
topic specificguest teachers
Knowledge Injections
allows students to shift with out loss of research
Budget
- +/- 8 guest teachers (knowledge injection)Of which - 1 or 2 guest workshop teachers (collaboration or sound)
Structure
1 Coordinator (Founder Cato Cramer) FinanceNetworkSelectionsevaluations – behind the scenes
2 Main Tutors- 1x Artistic Research Tutor (4 days per month or 2-3)- 1x Theory Tutor (1 day a month, or 2)
Meetings 1-2 x a monthCoordinator, Theory Tutor and Artistic Research tutor
Senior Theory Tutor Jeroen Boomgaard (comes +/- 4 times)
Coordinator + advisor team
Budget
- one public presentation (half way)- exhibition (production budget for each group)- publication
Students form new sub groups
- Finance- PR and Communication- Publication (editing)- Production - Catering
general skills
- presentation skills- collaboration skills- organization skills- management and production skills- communication skills- writing skills
A deeper understanding of artistic and academic processes
research skills (academic methods)
- formulating a research question- writing a research rationale, aims objectives- positioning yourself in a field- source references- refection, analysis
Types of artistic research students (personal view)
5 Types of Participatory Students1. A university student interested to get closer to art with the interest of gaining depth and new perspective in relation to their own discipline. Participating observer.
2. A university student who is interested in the integration of artistic methods without aspiration of making art. Integrating artistic methods as an enrichment of academic methodologies. Art with out the artist. Methods of re-enactment.
3. A hybrid student. One who seeks new forms of knowledge production combining artistic and academic methods aiming for the highest achievements in both methodologies.
4. An art student who wants to get closer to the theories that are related to his work. Aims for high artistic achievement. Knowledge development is Secondary.
5. An art student who wants to get inspired by academic theories. To get closer to science. Theories are applied to suit the artist and are not tested or analyzed for truth.
Why is this important?
Think about Sir Alexander Flemming...
serendipitous discovery of penicillin...
Did you know: 'Alexander Fleming grew different coloured bacteria in Petri dishes to make designs. He then used these to create 'germ paintings'. The paintings were invisible while he painted, but made bright colours once the cultures grew.'
http://digital.nls.uk/scientists/biographies/alexander-feming/index.html
It was his masterpiece, his “rising sun,” the painting that would save more lives than any other discovery.
www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Painting-With-Penicillin-Alexander-Flemings-Germ-Art.html#ixzz1vjWuzP5A
There is need for play before scientific rigor...but our educational systems seem to have taken informed 'play' out of the curricula. This can be found again when artists and scientists 'play' together in a guided way. - collaborations and in hybrids
As Louis Pasteur described: ‘in the fields of observation, chance only favours the mind which is prepared...’
In other words, artistic research is about combining academic rigor with Joseph Beuys’ ‘thinking with your knee’.
THANKS!
2008-2011 all research projects have been Amazing, I wish I could show them all to you in these 10 mins
For more information about Art and Research Honours Programme please contact
[email protected] Cramer