MADr: a platform to promote art and creativity.
Creative practice is core, employing critical reflection and cultural analysis to generate and disseminate knowledge in order to expand the disciplinary relevance of Media Art and Design.
Our vision is about looking towards the horizon, questioning the edges and boundaries of art practices where other fields of knowledge meet and overlap. We want to develop collaborative projects, to seek new understandings and contexts for innovative research.
MADr forms a gateway to harness and attract opportunities; facilitating initiatives we invite proposals to work with external partners locally and globally. The Research Centre nurtures a dynamic, responsive and sustainable environment for the development of creative practice and action research. Organised through a generative framework supporting a diverse community of researchers and research groups exploiting synergies and exploring new methodologies for future research. The Centre values an inclusive research environment. It embraces interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to art practice.
The research dialogue involves our community of research students and informs our undergraduate and postgraduate teaching portfolio. MADr will establish a Collaborative Research Gateway (CRG) as a research resource, which will identify opportunities and facilitate collaborative projects.
The Arts Research Collective (ARC) actively promotes research developed around, from, and within, the processes of artistic production. A core aspect of ARC is an artist residency programme and regular group discussion of work in progress. The aim is to provide a supportive environment where PhD students, post-docs and researchers carry out art practice led projects that test experimental and innovative ideas as a platform for future development and collaborations. For more infromation about this group please contact Deborah Robinson or visit the ARC webpages.
The art + sound research group encompasses time based arts including moving image, sound and music. art + sound provides a focused platform for established and emerging research building upon and continuing to foster connections in the creative, academic, and scientific disciplines. There is a special emphasis on the interplay and relationships between sound, moving image and sound installation. Core members of the group include artists, scientists, sound artists and musicians. For more information about this group please contact Jane Grant or visit the webpage.
i-DAT acts as a catalyst for creative research and innovation across the fields of Art, Science and Technology, facilitating regional, national and international collaborations and cultural projects. For more information about this group please contact Mike Phillips or visit the i-DAT website.
KURATOR/Art & Social Technologies Research (K/AST) is a combined research platform and curatorial agency at the intersection of art, technology and society. The group has a special interest in the parallels between the organisation of objects in technical systems and in curatorial practices, and the production of experimental, performative, participatory and distributed technological systems that challenge orthodox social relations. For more information about this group please contact Anya Lewin or visit the K/AST website.
The core priority of the Land/Water research group is support for the development of individual creative and critical practices. As artists, curators and writers we generate original objects and messages that question, reconsider and renew the nature and use of visual language. These works contribute both to contemporary academic debates within artistic and curatorial practices, and to understanding within related areas of experience and knowledge. For more information about this group please contact Liz Wells or visit the website.
Message is a research group. Messages are everywhere. It is evident, when we look and listen and touch and taste and smell, that many things contain messages. Messages exist because we must communicate to define our boundaries or be together. Messages are sent and received in an infinite number of ways, sometimes resulting in collaboration and sometimes in war. This group will explore the message… For more information about this group please contact Lizzie Ridout and Victoria Squire or visit the website.
Within a transdisciplinary and syncretic perspective, the Planetary Collegium is concerned with the advancement of emergent forms of the arts and architecture, in the context of telematic, interactive and technoetic media, and their integration with science, technology, and consciousness research. The Collegium's hub (CAiiA-Hub) is located in the Faculty of Arts, with nodes in the Nuova Accademia Di Belle Arti, Milan, and the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, Zurich. For more information about this group please contact Roy Ascott or visit the website.
Transtechnology Research is a transdisciplinary research group situated in the Faculty of Arts. Its constituency is drawn from historians, philosophers, anthropologists, artists and designers and is led from a historical and theoretical perspective with the objective of understanding science and technology as a manifestation of a range of human desires and cultural imperatives. Its key focus is to understand how a technology acquires meaning and how it is used after it enters into the public domain. For more information about this group please contact Michael Punt or visit the website.
