Stephen Scrivener’s and Jan Kaila workshop and master course
at the Hungarian Fine Art University Doctorate School
29-30 May 2012, Doctoral School, Hungarian University of Fine Art
Jan Kaila’s workshop and master course at the Hungarian Fine Art University Doctorate School
Workshop Leader:
Jan Kaila (born 1957) studied at the Doctoral Studies Program at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts from 1997 to 2002. The subject of his doctorate, completed in 2002, was Photographicality and Representation in Contemporary Art. Kaila worked in the 1980s and 1990s as a full-time and visiting contracted teacher and lecturer in several Nordic photography schools, including the University of Art and Design Helsinki and the School of Photography at Gothenburg University. In 2001, he was elected Professor of Photography at the Estonian Academy of Arts, and, in 2004, he was appointed Professor of Artistic Research and also Head of the Doctoral Studies Program at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. In 2008, he was elected Vice Rector of the Academy.
Since his Doctorate in Fine Arts Kaila has published and lectured regularly about artistic research. Kaila was together with Henk Slager the founding member of European Artistic Research Network (EARN) in 2004 and in 2010 he was nominated as a member in the executive board of the Society of Artistic Research (publisher of Journal of Aristic Research, JAR). Kaila has also worked as an evaluator of fine art educations and artistic research in Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Germany, Austria and Ireland.
Since 1980, Kaila has held one-man exhibitions and participated in group shows in many European countries, the United States, Japan and South Korea. Kaila has also worked as a curator and has published writings about visual art and photography.
Themes of the workshop:
- different approach of practice based research in art higher education
- artistic research from the point of view of a practicing artist
- methodologies in practice based research in art
29th May 2012
10.00-13.00 A.M.
Introduction to art and research
Examples of doctoral students’ activities at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts’ Doctorate Program
14.00-16.00 P.M.
Talk about artistic research from the point of view of a practicing artist
Venue: MKE Doctorate Scholl, Lecture room
30th May 2012
10.00-12.00 A.M.
Workshop / Consultations = selected students will give presentations about their artistic practice and research.
Consultation in group.
Part 1.
14.00-16.00 P.M.
Workshop / Consultations = selected students will give presentations about their artistic practice and research.
Consultation in group.
Part 2.
7-9 May 2012, Doctoral School, Hungarian University of Fine Art
Workshop Leader:
Professor Stephen Scrivener studied Fine Art at undergraduate and master levels, the latter at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, where he began to use the computer as a means of art production. Subsequent to the Slade, Scrivener completed his PhD in a computer science department and, thereafter, worked as a lecturer and researcher in various university computer science departments. Up to 1992, his research focused on the design and development of interactive systems for artists and designers and on how such systems are used. During this period he undertook many funded design-focused research projects (supported by grants in excess of £2 million) almost all of which involved academic, commercial and industrial collaboration. Scrivener moved back into an art and design department in 1992, and since then his research has focused on the theory and practice of what is often called practice-based research. During his research career, he has completed funded research projects; produced over 175 research outcomes; supervised more than 30 research degree students to completion and examined over 40. Scrivener has participated in the research context in a range of functions; he is the founding editor of the Inter- national Journal of Co-Design, published by Taylor and Francis, and is an elected fellow of the Design Research Society.
Themes of the workshop:
- different approach of practice based research in art higher education
- Art as Knowledge
- Performativity in art and research
- Relationship between art and technology in the early computer based experimental art-
- Interpretation of local history and collective memory in contemporary art.
7th May 2012
10-13 A.M.: Evaluation and consultation of the joint workshops and exhibition by The Hungarian Fine Art University Doctorate School and the University of the Arts London, CCW Graduate School taken place in London and Budapest in 2010 and 2011. Hungarian students give presentations about their new work inspired by the Chelsea visit. Discussion and plans for future.
Venue: MKE Doctoral School, Main Studio
8th May 2012:
10-13 A.M.: Art as knowledge. Introduction to the University of Arts London academic approach to practice based research. Presentation on University of Arts London student’s work / thesis.
14-16 P.M.: Performativity in art and research. Students presentation. Followed by discussion
Venue: MKE Doctoral School, Lecture room
9th May 2012:
10-12 A.M.: Usage of computer in British experimental art in the 1970s.
Venue: MKE Intermedia Department, Lecture room
14-16 P.M.: Workshop / Consultations = selected students will give presentations around the theme of Performativity, Stephen Scrivener and Balázs Kicsiny and students give feedback.