CREAC home page

 

  CREAC research group
  centre for research in electronic art and communication
links  
CREAC home page
list of members
events
copyright
university of hertfordshire
school research

projects

INM exchange
Field of Vision
Shadow Rounds
Stadium
Programme
Fabrications
Voiceover
Cryptosphere
Recombinant Sculptures

funding




The Pollock Krasner Foundation
Jerwood Foundation
The Australia Council

Contact

Professor Simeon Nelson
s.d.lockhart-nelson@herts.ac.uk

Fine Art Practices Group


The Fine Art Practices Group fosters connections across socially embedded art practices, public art theory, and technology and aspires to position itself at the forefront of inter-disciplinary and applied research in the visual arts. The research group currently consists of fine artists involved in video, performance, sculpture and installation activities,and a curator/producer of exhibition programmes. As such they represent a range of co-existent practices and creative perspectives within the School. However, all share a common interest in applied research that explores the mediation of experience through technology, and all are pursuing agendas that seek to critically evaluate the possible aesthetic and conceptual dimensions of such encounters as a means of addressing the conditions of contemporary culture.

As professional artists, Art Practices Group members primarily engage in applied research that utilises practice-led methods as forms of research output. The disciplines that they work from, and the processes that they employ, result in multiform media and material outputs. To itemise but a few: site-specific installations, curatorial programmes, artists' video, public art projects, residencies in leading institutions and convening conferences. All these activities typically take place at national and international levels and enter the public domain through RAE (unit 64) accredited channels. Sixty percent of the group's output was rated world leading or internationally excellent in the 2008 Exercise.
http://www.herts.ac.uk/research-and-innovation/rae-2008-results/rae2008-uoa63.cfm

Some have won significant awards and/or been shortlisted in international competitions and/or discussed in international symposiums. It is also common for Art Practices Group members to author more traditional written outcomes (conference papers, journal articles and books) as a means to explore issues encountered within the practice-led programmes they pursue.

Research areas include

  • relationships between art and science
  • performance
  • photography and video
  • socially engaged and public realm fine art practices

Current Projects

Ways of Knowing, Art and Science’s Shared Imagination
28th and 29th of September 2010
School of Creative Arts

Members