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In May, 2019, we asked the ASTeRIX community to complete an on-line questionnaire in order to understand better the community’s research interests and to survey scholar-artists with respect to proposals for the future development of the centre, Art, Sound, & TEchnology Research IntersecXions (ASTeRIX), which is a Type B Research Centre in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Lethbridge. It supports research-creation across all departments in the Faculty of Fine Arts and includes, but is not limited to, investigating the intersections of technology and the arts. The remainder of this document includes results from the questionnaire and provides a report of the community members’ responses.<\/p>\n
We wish to express our strong appreciation to the members who provided feedback via<\/em> the questionnaire.<\/p>\n 20 Participants responded to nearly every question <\/p>\n Would you support any of these topics as the basis for a central research and creation theme for 2019\/2020?<\/p>\n Artistic agency and ethics in the digital age no response (13%) <\/p>\n Rank these three topics from most favourable (3) to least favourable (1). Type zero ( 0 ) if you neither approve nor disapprove.<\/p>\n (1) Artistic agency and ethics in the digital age<\/p>\n 0 neither approve nor disapprove (15%) <\/p>\n (2) An emergence of frictions in arts-based projects<\/p>\n 0 neither approve nor disapprove (31%) <\/p>\n (3) Mediating experience and the senses during creation<\/p>\n 0 neither approve nor disapprove (0%) <\/p>\n If you wish, please propose other topics for a central theme for 2019\/2020 and beyond.<\/p>\n (in the order received)<\/p>\n Voicing Silence: Text into Sound<\/p>\n Instead of Mediating the Senses During Creation<\/em>, how about Mediating the Senses Through Creation<\/em><\/p>\n Art and Ecology Materiality Beyond the Anthropocene and Beyond Human Haunted Technology<\/p>\n Art, Politics and Digital Creation<\/p>\n The Emergence of Aboriginal Voices in Concert Music and Digital Music\/Art<\/p>\n Intersections of the Digital and the Analog: New Art with Old Technology<\/p>\n Loops & cycles (looping, sampling, repetition, the seasons, circle of life, d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, algorithms, etc.), as represented in various media, theories, and histories<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What ideas, concepts, areas of discussion or projects do you think would be suitable topics for gatherings? Ideas can be as general as, say, collaboration or collaborative writing, to more specific areas that relate to developing a research and creation framework for an upcoming event, installation, performance, exhibit, literary dissemination, etc..<\/p>\n (ideas generally ordered by commonalities, followed by more singular ideas)<\/p>\n Teaching synergies (continuities, commonalities, areas of overlap). How can we share and augment each other’s teaching activities, potentially addressing any “gaps”?<\/p>\n Talking about collaboration among students and faculty across ASTeRIX themes\/disciplines and as a part of curricula<\/p>\n Loops (looping, sampling, repetition, the seasons, circle of life, d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, algorithms, etc.), as represented in various media, theories, and histories, and as part of curricula development<\/p>\n An extended\/continuing collaborative visual art project: wall drawing installation, primarily involving student participants and developed as part of a curriculum, as well as targeting the SAB \u2013 visually, conceptually, functionally (as a shared space with community \/ research intersections)<\/p>\n Collaborative performance art event involving installations and collective writing<\/p>\n Moving poetry or text into sound performance<\/p>\n Supporting, and providing the means for, artistic production by minorities and under-represented groups<\/p>\n Workshop on Indigenous gaming (game themes: comic, sci-fi), led by a visiting scholar-artist<\/p>\n Exploring the different approaches to research and creation, especially with the goal of learning from one another<\/p>\n Surveying the breadth of interpretation, and language, of “research and creation”<\/p>\n Last year I was on a conference programme committee and reviewed three abstracts that delved into research-creation. One of the discussions we had as a committee was around the concept of research-creation itself, since the abstracts presented an understanding different from our own of what research-creation means. As a committee, we decided to accept the abstracts as a way to expand how we thought of, or start a further conversation about, the topic. I am coming into this group very late, but I wonder if it would be worth looking closely at some examples of research-creation to better understand its breadth?<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Schedule Gatherings as Event + Discussions. Members present (e.g., a performance, audition production excerpts, etc.) + short research talk, with a focus on launching\/generating future discussions and collaborations<\/p>\n These events would fill a gap in our faculty as we barely know what our colleagues do.<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Making time: exploring strategies for finding time to share our research-creation (technology, practices, philosophy, techniques, directions, etc.) with each other and develop future collaborations \u2013 explored and actualised via<\/em> a Hackathon in the Switch Lab.<\/p>\n Communities of Practice<\/a>: a social theory of collaborative learning, helping us to possibly structure, and bring to light, benefits of multiple disciplines working together<\/p>\n Developing and identifying an audience on-line (e.g., a niche audience\/market)<\/p>\n Microaggressions in the audio recording studio<\/p>\n Non-monetary forms of labour in the cultural production process<\/p>\n Trans-disciplinary working group and think tank, meeting to explore a series of questions in order to promote dialogue and exchange, on the topic of: the artist’s role in cultural rituals (traditional and secular) surrounding the experience of death, dying and memorial practices. Establish a foundation for a conference on this topic at ULethbridge.<\/p>\n Aligning ASTeRIX activities with other exhibitions, programmes, and events local (SAAG), national, international<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ASTERIX would like to develop a workshop series, entitled Intersections, for interdisciplinary research and creation for students, including both undergraduate and graduate students. In addition to hands-on activities, this series could include, for example, project development and dissemination strategies and leading students toward exhibiting at Crossing Boundaries 2020, 2021, etc..<\/p>\n What workshop ideas, concepts, areas of discussion or projects do you think would be appropriate? In addition, what constraints might you envision as part of the series (technical requirements, space requirements, duration, time of year, estimated costs for students if any)?<\/p>\n (in the order received)<\/p>\n Site-specific performances, installations, etc., connecting bodily movement, sound and digital technology<\/p>\n Keep it simple and contained<\/p>\n Workshop on video essay making<\/p>\n Indigenous graphic and futurist art \u2013 from art-making to game to installation. Allow for multiple forms of expression.<\/p>\n Interpreting Sol Lewitt’s drawing concepts (Example: Sol LeWitt\u2019s influential wall drawings around the world<\/a>)<\/p>\n Browsing Internet Yami-Ichi<\/a>, created by IDPW<\/a><\/p>\n Workshop on concept of “loops” (looping, sampling, repetition, the seasons, circle of life, d\u00e9j\u00e0 vu, algorithms, etc.), as represented in various media, theories, and histories, and as part of curricula development<\/p>\n Bio-signal \/ bio-data artistic practices with a focus on technology (sensors, hardware and software development)<\/p>\n An Intersections Workshop series specifically designed for faculty<\/strong><\/span> (or might take the form of a Gathering activity), including:<\/p>\n \u2022 Fabrication and prototyping techniques Revenue generation from the creation of new works (new intellectual property), led by guest speaker.<\/p>\n There is an intellectual property lawyer in Lethbridge now \u2013 one of very few in Canada<\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In May, 2019, we asked the ASTeRIX community to complete an on-line questionnaire in order to understand better the community’s research interests and to survey scholar-artists with respect to proposals for the future development of the centre, Art, Sound, & TEchnology Research IntersecXions (ASTeRIX), which is a Type B Research Centre in … <\/p>\n
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\n\u2022 Programming (e.g., Processing, Max, Pure Data, and other DSP [Digital Signal Processing] applications)
\n\u2022 Working with microprocessors and other peripheral devices, including sensor-based technology
\n\u2022 Audio sampling and microphone techniques<\/p>\n\n
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