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A/r/cography: Art, Research and Communication

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ARTECH '19: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital and Interactive Arts

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3359852.3359859

Published: 13 February 2020 Publication History

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This article aims at establishing the foundations for a/r/cography as an "art and communication"-based research methodology, inspired by a/r/tography yet more encompassing, and particularly suitable for the digital art world. As part of the larger family of practice-based research methodologies, a/r/tography presents various ways through which it can be explored, but since it is aimed at the arts and education, its scope is forcibly hampered by the fact that not all researchers and art-practitioners are necessarily teachers. However, since most of its underlying principles can be extended for non-teachers, thus arose the idea to propose a methodology that would retain ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions, but would expand beyond the limitations imposed by the role of the teacher. This extension is called a/r/cography and is structured upon the interchangeable roles of artist, researcher and communicator, as being intrinsic to the underlying living inquiry processes. Furthermore, this proposal is supported by the author's own experience from a/r/cographic processes in the creation, exhibition and communication of digital artworks.

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1. Applied computing
  1. Arts and humanities
    1. Media arts

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