AR - artistic research

This publication brings together historical and current approaches to artistic research. The compendium bridges science and art—often times seen as diverging spheres of knowledge and interpretation—through texts and visual contributions, discussions, methods, manifestos, and metaphors. Featured artists are: György Kepes, founder of the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS); artists Attila Csörgö, Laurent Grasso, Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolás Goldberg, Florian Dombois, and alumna Jae Rhim Lee; as well as Gediminas Urbonas, ACT Professor, and Nader Tehrani, Head of MIT’s Department of Architecture. The book also includes essays by Stefan Helmreich, MIT Professor of Anthropology; Nicholas Ashford, MIT Professor of Technology and Policy; and Márton Orosz, 2011 Kepes Fellow.

Taking up Kepes on his call for “art on a civic scale,” the book grew out of a collaboration between ACT and Siemens Stiftung, Munich, that included a series of exhibitions, lectures, and symposia. AR – Artistic Research explored artistic methodologies and forms of inquiry at the intersection of art, science, and technology.