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COMUNICAZIONI SOCIALI - 2021 - 1. Arts-Based Research in Communication and Media Studies
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Introduction: Arts-Based Research in Communication and Media Studies
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This article introduces the special issue on “Arts-Based Research in Communication and Media Studies”, starting from a discussion on the different strategies and models that have been used to move away from the dominance of the written text in academia...
Academia Goes to the Arts: Entanglements of Research, Knowledge,
and Information in Contemporary Visual Art
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The use of arts-based research has recently gained attention among scholars in diverse fields of social sciences for its capacity to communicate research beyond the authority of the written text as well as to engage with non-academic audiences. This article focuses on the dynamics of art as knowledge work from the perspective of contemporary art and its institutions: if academic research goes’ to the arts then how does this ‘going’ interact with the already established politics, economies and ethics of the art field?
Towards Academic Publishing In Medias Res
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The article discusses challenges of multimodal publishing in academic contexts with specific focus on the epistemic role of images in research publications in the area of artistic research. Through a series of examples, the article attempts at showing that research in and through the arts raises the stakes of epistemic presentation because it thematises the mode of presentation as part of the subject matter...
Short-Circuiting Media History Research: Convergences
between Media Archaeology and Media Art
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Since its beginnings in the 1990s, media archeology has established a fruitful exchange of concepts and methods with media art. The present article focuses on the mutual exchange between these two fields. It aims at reflecting on the commonalities and differences between artists’ and scholars’ work and, consequently, on the emergence of the figure of the artist-researcher, or researcher- artist, who practices media history through creative techniques...
Arts-Based Research and Artistic Research Promoting New Kinds
of Co-Operation: A Funder’s Perspective
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For a decade, the Helsinki-based Kone Foundation, a private funder of research and the arts, has been increasing its efforts to promote collaboration between academics and artists. In the paper, the author discusses the motivations behind such funding and gives examples of initiatives that have sprung as a result...
Hybrid Spectators: Meta-Study of a Transmedia Art-Based Research
Experience
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Employing the methodology of duo-ethnography, the article critically revisits the collaboration between the article’s authors, facilitated by the production of Hernando Blandón-Gómez’s transmedia and multimodal installation on the political meaning of an image in Rancière’s thought, supported by Lazzarato’s concept of indebted man. Informed by arts-based qualitative methodological work, critical discourse studies and deleuzo-guattarian aesthetic thought, the article takes on the form of the comic, to emphasize the natural alliance between these approaches and media and communication studies...
Il Posticipo (The Late Kick-off): Art, Research and Urban
Regeneration
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This article analyses an artistic urban regeneration project, subsidised by the Italian Ministry of Culture (Creative Living Lab Prize 2018-2019.) The text emerged from my direct experience as an artist/researcher involved in the Il Posticipo project (The Late Kick-off), in the former working- class district of Ponziana (Trieste, IT). In order to understand the sense of identity, and the social fragility of the neighbourhood, we created two subprojects: a radio program hosted in the 4 different bars of the district, which was broadcasted live on local radio; a sound installation in the abandoned stadium which re-enacted the famous 1974 Trieste football derby between Ponziana and Triestina...
Silencing / Unsilencing Nature. A Participatory Visual Essay
on the Right to Flourish
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The essay is grounded in a reflection on the discursive-material knot, which uses a macro-(con) textual approach to discourse, but also allocates a non-hierarchical position to the material, ecognizing its agency. This ontological model is then used to analyse the discursive-material struggles of/over nature, and nonhuman living beings...
Fragmented Interpretations: Constructing the Arts-Based Text
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This project achieves two aims: (1) to examine the complex, rhetorical relationship between text and context, author and audience, and (2) to demonstrate how to use an arts-based approach to research in the field of Communication Studies...
Interactive Tools Performance: Blast Theory between Media Theory,
Performance Studies and Social Research
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This article investigates the intermediality performances which originate from the collaboration between the British collective Blast Theory and the Mixed Reality Lab of the University of Nottingham. This analysis focuses on the possibility of extracting innovative tools and methodologies from their work...
Bella Ciao Clangs on the Balconies: The Art of Ritual Practice
during Lockdown 2020. Some Digital Media Ethnographic Notes
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In this essay, I explore the digital ritual responses initiated by the ‘Corona death’ as a global media event and analyse how this event and related ritualisation materialised in the Spring and early Summer of 2020. This essay has been inspired by my long-lasting research interest in mediated death and my curiosity for methodological exploration. The analysis is grounded in my ongoing digital media ethnographic fieldwork, as well as Susan Finley’s ideas on arts-based research as a creative methodological means of expanding media anthropological knowledge...
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