| Date | 03/18/2025 |
| Time | 14:00 |
| Location | Research Station |
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Can we talk about this?
The hidden rituals and secret stories of artistic and design research
To launch the Research in Perspective* conversation series, Skye Maule O’Brien and Aymeric Mansoux, from WdKA, and researchers Pippin Barr and Jaret Vadera, from Concordia University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, will take a deeper dive into the analogue and digital kitchen of artistic and design research. There are tools and rituals we almost never talk about: the mess of post-its, the whiteboard, the nested computer folders, the favourite text/code editor, the specific brand of tea or coffee or snack, (virtual) desktop (dis-organisation), family interruptions/compartmentalisation, neurodivergent workflows, spreadsheets, todos, music playlists, self-inflicted constraints. How to fight or embrace chaos, the bricolage of things from which something will hopefully emerge? There are methods that remain unspoken, undocumented, possibly embarrassing, that could be pivotal for better understanding artistic and design research.
Skye Maule-O’Brien leads interdisciplinary pedagogical projects and supports shifts in curriculum, research, and administration across the interlinked Practices and Honours programmes at WdKA. She is a research post-doctoral fellow in Social Practices.
Aymeric Mansoux is professor/reader (Dutch: lector) in Commercial Practices, whose research interests revolve around art, design, cultural works and practices that engage with ecology, computer network infrastructures, permacomputing, shadow IT, repair culture, post-free culture, collapsology and post-growth economics.
Pippin Barr is a video game maker, educator, and critic and Department Chair, Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University. https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/pippin-barr.html + https://pippinbarr.com/
Jaret Vadera produces transdisciplinary work that examines the ways that images, ideologies, and technologies colonize our vision. Vadera hacks different visual systems, and rewires them to glitch, rupture, and open up parallel ways of seeing and works as Area Head, Intermedia Program, Studio Arts Department at Concordia University. https://www.concordia.ca/faculty/jaret-vadera.html + http://www.jaretvadera.com/
*Research in Perspective hosts conversations about research in practice at the WdKA-Piet Zwart Institute. It is a forum for connecting, sharing information and insights, and acknowledging, questioning, and honoring the diversity of approaches, methods, and practices involved in the research we undertake. Research in Perspective invites guests and welcomes proposals for sessions. Convened by Miriam Rasch, Vivian Sky Rehberg and Renée Turner, coordinated via the Research Station and Research Center.
