For (and against) Biggs and Büchler
Spencer Roberts
The debate concerning the legitimacy of artistic research that has
taken place over the last two decades is notable for the way in
which it has drawn attention to rival “representational” and
“performative” images of thought. Early critics of practice-led
research such as Durling, Friedman, Elkins, and Biggs employed
broadly representational arguments in a quasi-legal context of
judgement...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 10, 2015
venue: Orpheus Institute, Auditorium
format: in words
practice: philosophy
keywords: aesthetics, artistic research, image of thought, Negotiations
Intuition and Creative Process
Felix Rebolledo, Andreia Machado Oliveira, Tania Mara Galli Fonseca
With the aim of deepening the discussion about a philosophical
approach within artistic research, we seek to explore the
interaction between process in artistic practices and the
Bergsonian/Deleuzian method of intuition and the establishment of a
common ground between both. We propose to look at intuition from
three vantage points: first, as a mode of knowledge-creation that
is aesthetic, immediat...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Mezzanine
format: in words
practice: philosophy
keywords: Bergsonism, intuition
Diagrammatic Traits: Scream(S)-Force(S)-Manifold(S)
Claudia Mongini, Andres Vahos, Emiddio Vasquez
Departing from Kant-Deleuze’s notion of synthesis understood as a
“rule of construction” by which a complexion of heterogeneous
elements is driven to the consistency of a concept, this panel
inquires its diagrammatic conditions—that is, its operative
potential for the creation of transversal relations. Andres Vahos
engages in the operative dimension of the cry—an operation
problematising...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Rotonde
format: in words
practice: philosophy
keywords: aesthetics, diagram, singularity, technical objects
On the Concept of Creal: Ethical Promises of a non-Teleological Creative Universal
Luis de Miranda
The French novel Paridaiza (De Miranda 2008a) describes a
totalitarian digital duplication of our planet. A small group of
rebels subverts the hedonistic-fascist system in which millions of
players are imprisoned. The liberators implant a virus within the
code of the immersive world in the form of a disruptive signifier.
Five combined letters function as the grain of sand in the gears: �...
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conference: DARE 2015: the dark precursor
date: November 9, 2015
venue: De Bijloke Music Center, Mezzanine
format: in words
practice: philosophy
keywords: chaosmos, Donatien Alphonse François de Sade, Hannah Arendt, Henri Bergson, Jacques Lacan, Karl Marx, plane of immanence, politics, real/reality, William Shakespeare