Aalto University | Art of Research Conference 2023
The Art of Research conferences has had a significant role in promoting continuous dialogue and fruitful convergence between art and design related research practices since its first edition in 2005. The conferences have contributed to the development of the rapidly growing and spreading contemporary discourse on artistic research, acknowledging and rethinking the multiple notions of research where artistic and creative practice are used as context for enquiry.
The conference is interested in proposals drawing from the full spectrum of artistic, arts-based/practice-based and practice-led research today. We invite submissions from academics and scholars (including doctoral students) and from artist-researchers representing different art forms e.g. contemporary art, film, craft, design, media, performance, and architecture. The conference themes encourage a diversity of perspectives and research orientations, and productive challenges to established ideas are also most welcome.
Please, address your contribution to one of the following submission formats:
- Full papers (5000 words max.) and presentations (20 min +10 min Q & A). These contributions will be double-masked peer-reviewed. To facilitate the review process, whenever possible, authors are expected to remove any identifying information from their submissions that might lead a reviewer to discern their identities or affiliations. The author’s name in self-citations must be replaced with “Author” in in-text citations, reference entries and footnotes. For practical details, see the conference website at https://artofresearch2023.aalto.fi/
- Explorative presentations (15 min + 5 min Q & A) as an extended abstract (800 words max., excluding short abstract and references).
- (+) In addition to your submission to either format, you may propose related artworks, artefacts, design components, or documentation of artistic projects to participate in the exhibition that will be organised concurrently with the conference. Your submission for the exhibition must include a separate description of the artwork and possible technical specifications (80 words max.) and visual material such as photographs or a video. Please note that the transportation of the artwork(s) is on the author’s responsibility. The submissions will be reviewed by the organisers, and the exhibition team will curate the exhibition based on these submissions. For practical details on how to create the exhibition submission, please see the conference website at https://artofresearch2023.aalto.fi/exhibition/
Note: Further information on the format of the exhibition in case of remote participation will follow later to all participants who have submitted an exhibition proposal.
Deadline for all submissions: 1 April 2023