Research
Theme 9
Practice
led research
Convenor:
Martyn Jolly
Description
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Practice-led
research presumes a process of the development and testing of
knowledge which has an
outcome in the production of works of art, design, performance
and professional practices. For a researcher
in this field a “practice-led” thesis is based on
the researcher’s development of an appropriate experimental
and analytical methodology, specifi c to the medium in which the
practice takes place, and grounded in an understanding of the
historical and theoretical disciplinary context in which it is
located. In keeping with orthodox academic approaches, practice-led
research addresses familiar themes with equivalent rigour: the
objective of the study; its historical and theoretical context;
the method of communication through relevant media and processes;
substantiation of the process of discovery; the novelty of resultant
discoveries, etc.
Research into
professional practice, whether it be practice as an academic,
as a musician, dentist, or manager, is a growing area of research
interest at the ANU. Such research requires recognition and development
of its epistemologies, methodologies and approaches that are appropriate
to the discipline and the profession. Research
into pedagogy and academic methods is a subset of this aspect
of the theme.
The practice-led
research theme includes creative arts practices, exemplified by,
for example, the production of new works of visual art for dissemination
in the public domain; music practice and theory in various appropriate
research modes and outcomes; new media arts practice research
and outcomes; and research into performance practice and theory
(including drama and theatre studies). Research in curatorial
practice, visual anthropology, and collections research are subsets
of Art History, Art Theory, and Anthropology.
Visualisation
research is an emergent field employing methodologies which apply
to the analysis of forms
of visual culture where either the subject of the study and/or
the mode of articulation of fi ndings is in
visual media, or analysed through visual means. Equivalents in
other fields: eg, work in sonic, haptic, and
cyberspatial domains are also dependent on relevant modes of practice.
Events
24 August
2007
Can
Bad Art Be Good Research
Ruth Waller (School of Art) Dr Ruth Martin (School of Music) Dr
Alistair Riddell (Centre for New Media Arts) Dr Adrian Caesar
(School of Humanities). Convener: Dr Martyn Jolly (School of Art)
Participants
will discussed how their professional creative careers as painters,
composers, musicians and creative writers fit in to established
modes of university research. Heldas part of the Research School
of Humanities Friday
Forum series. For
further information contact Martyn
Jolly.
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