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!

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

deciding subthemes

forming research groups

Sub-themes:

- Around Absorption- War and Symbolism

Research group questions:

- What happened to the BIG questions?- Can you Kill Language?

research updates

research updates are performative

research updates – Around Absorption

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)

workshops

visiting exhibitions

visiting exhibitions

Designing their own educational setting, (based on the research topic)

workshops

The Rules!

Theory: discussing texts related to topics

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

presenting in publicthe half year presentation

- NIMk (Montevideo)- Waag Society

Exhibitions

Students form new sub groups

- Finance- PR and Communication- Publication (editing)- Production - Catering

War and Symbolism

What happened to the Big Questions? What is Time?

What happened to the Big Questions? What is Time?

What happened to the Big Questions? What is Time?

Publications- student and teacher refectionsFinal exam project of graphic designer

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

Artistic methods

Multi-media...No limits...

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’.

small beginnings

Can you take the top of(f) a mountain?

Big results:Documentary Mountains and Molehillsand many side events

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

Coordinatorj.c.cramer@uva.nlCato Cramer

Me:jenniferkanary@yahoo.com