PhD

Almost Documentary: Celcrabeels' introduction to taxi-to-praxi

Submitted by celcrabeels on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 17:49
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Dear all, I have thought about the questions put to us by Taxi to Praxi. I will elaborate a bit.

How do you define practice-led artistic research?

One has to look at the context, the Bologna Process aims to create a European Higher Education Area by 2010. Due to this process the Belgian Academy’s and University’s recently are merging into one structure. This evolution has created a need for 'PhD candidate researchers in Fine Art ' in the Belgian. academic world.

The Next Layer as a Medium for Practice-led Research

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Mon, 03/31/2008 - 16:23
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Taxi to Praxi
This text expands on some of the topics mentioned in the original call for participation for the taxi-to-praxi workshop. It explains some of the motivations and the general ideas behind the research day but is by now way a complete summary of all the topics we would like to address. Currently to this text have contributed Lindsay Brown, Adnan Hadzi and Armin Medosch. If you feel that you would like to add something, please feel free to rewrite this text or create a new one. To create a new revision, do the following: Once you are in the edit section with this article open, apply your changes and then go to the bottom and click "create new revision". You can also use the text field "Log Message" to explain your revisions.

Hidden Histories - Hive Networks about to launch oral history trail in Southampton

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Wed, 02/13/2008 - 15:11
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Years of research and development will come to a hopefully successfull climax on Friday March 14th with the launch of the Hidden Histories project in Southampton. The project is the result of a collaboration between Armin Medosch and the London based technology development group Hive Networks led by artist-engineer Alexei Blinov. By narrowcasting excerpts from Southampton's Oral History Unit on 10 listening stations in the city centre, we have created a new public interface for negotiating the past (and maybe future) of the city.

taxi-to-praxi: experimental workshop about practice-led PhDs

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Tue, 02/12/2008 - 10:42
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This one day workshop "from taxi to praxi and back again" uncovers and examines some of the challenges and opportunities faced when creative artistic practice is undertaking research.

Making Science's 'Other' Productive

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Mon, 10/08/2007 - 14:28
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Although the dominant mode of technoscientific 'invention' at the turn to the 20th century was based on rationalism it also brought about its flipside of electromagnetic esotericism. Telegraphy and radio triggered a new age of spiritism.1

  • 1. Even now, images of Tesla in his laboratory evoke associations with alchemism (Image of Tesla in his laboratory); regarding the connection between electromagnetism and spiritualism, cf.

Waves and Code

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Mon, 10/08/2007 - 11:22
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Introduction

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