The exposition of practice as research as experimental systems

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https://doi.org/10.5965/2175234611232019013

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Michael Schwab

Editor of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR)

Translation Osmar Yang and Yara Guasque

Article originally published in English (SCHWAB, Michael. "The Exposition of Practice as Research as Experimental Systems", 2014, pp. 31-40) as a chapter in the book CRISPIN, Darla; GILMORE, Bob (Eds.). Artistic Experimentation in Music. An Anthology. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2014.

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Author Biography

Michael Schwab, Santa Catarina State University

Michael Schwab is a London-based artist and artistic researcher who investigates postconceptual uses of technology in a variety of media including photography, drawing, printmaking, and installation art. He holds a M.A. in philosophy (Hamburg University) and a PhD in photography (Royal College of Art, London) that focuses on post-conceptual post-photography and artistic research methodology. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal for Artistic Research (JAR), co-editor of Intellectual Birdhouse. Artistic Practice as Research. (2012), co-editor of The Exposition of Artistic Research: Publishing Art in Academia (2013), editor of the book Experimental Systems. Future Knowledge in Artistic Research (2015) as well as the editor of Transpositions. Aesthetico-Epistemic Operators in Artistic Research. (2018). His most recent book, Futures of the Contemporary. Contemporaneity, Untimeliness, and Artistic Research, co-edited with Paulo de Assis, was published in 2019. Through a focus on experimentation and the exposition of practice as research, Schwab has developed a conceptual approach that links artistic freedom with academic criticality in support of what has been called the 'practice turn in contemporary theory'.

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2019-01-11

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SCHWAB, Michael. The exposition of practice as research as experimental systems. Palíndromo, Florianópolis, v. 11, n. 23, p. 13–25, 2019. DOI: 10.5965/2175234611232019013. Disponível em: https://www.periodicos.udesc.br/index.php/palindromo/article/view/14592. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.

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