The measurement of the significance and 'impact' of research is absolutely paramount in today's academic world - as evidenced by the recent introductions of research assessment exercises in the UK, Australia, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Material Inventions: Applying Creative Arts Research offers new and original ways of conceptualizing impact and innovation in creative arts research. This important book demonstrates how artistic research is capable of solving real-life problems and presenting transforming accounts of the world. What are the inventions and innovations of artistic research? What are the interdisciplinary applications of practice-led research methodologies and outcomes? In what ways can the methods and outcomes of artistic research benefit the broader community and creative and other industries? How can the impact of creative practice as research be demonstrated and more clearly articulated? By articulating the inventions, innovations, application and broader uptake of artistic research in and beyond the field of art, expert contributors advance the claim that artistic research constitutes a new paradigm or 'successor science' that impacts on interdisciplinary research and in diverse community and industry settings. In often surprising and unpredictable ways, the inventions and innovations of artistic researchers are being taken up beyond the creative arts in areas such as fire fighting, computer interfacing and design, public relations, medical science, caring for the aged, local history making, museology, biofeedback technologies and a range of therapeutic settings. This is a timely follow-up to Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry and will be indispensible to researchers, institutions and research assessment bodies.
Edited by:
Estelle Barrett,
Barbara Bolt
Imprint: I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 626g
ISBN: 9781780769868
ISBN 10: 1780769865
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 30 August 2014
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Foreword Notes on Contributors Introduction Extending the Field: Invention, Application and Innovation in Creative Arts Enquiry Estelle Barrett Chapter 1 Beyond Solipsism in Artistic Research: The Art Work and The Work of Art Barbara Bolt Chapter 2 Blogging as Art, Art as Research Lucas Ihlein Chapter 3 Conversations Before the End of Time : Refuturing Applications of a New Media Praxis Keith Armstrong Chapter 4 Multimodal Research Applied to Decision Making by Incident Controllers on the Fire Ground Valerie Ingham Chapter 5 Newspaper Printing Sites and The Spoils of Creative Research Deborah Beaumont Chapter 6 The Riches Of Ambiguity: Art as a Site for the Senses Jo-Anne Duggan Chapter 7 Real Fiction: Theatre and Creative Research Scott Welsh Chapter 8 Practice as Method: The Ex/centric Fixations Project Bree Hadley Chapter 9 Poetic Documentary And Visual Anthropology: Evoking The Subject Cameron Rose Chapter 10 Marking Exchange: Life-Drawing, Methexis and Intersubjective Praxis Margaret Mayhew Chapter 11 Making Sense: Exploring Materialist Pedagogies Through Imagination, Collaboration and Criticality Carole Gray and Gordon Burnett Chapter 12 The Effective and The Evocative: A Spectrum of Creative Practice Research Jillian Hamilton and Luke Jaaniste Chapter 13 The Mode of Invention of Creative Research Iris van der Tuin Notes References
Estelle Barrett recently retired from the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, where she was Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School. In 2013, she was appointed to the position of Adjunct Research Professor at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales. Barbara Bolt is a practising artist and art theorist and is currently the Associate Director, Research and Research Training at the Victorian College of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. She exhibits with Catherine Asquith Gallery in Melbourne.
Reviews for Material Inventions: Applying Creative Arts Research
Material Inventions is an essential intervention into the contemporary need to understand creative arts practice as research. It is instructive, enjoyable and yes, inventive. Lynn Turner, Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.
