Poster session
Jagiellonian University
Featured Contemporary Artists’ Books: A Cultural Strategy for Art’s Re-Materialisation and Value Translation View Digital Media
Poster Session Hyunjoo Cho
A dominant expectation that consumable artworks should be permanent objects and alienable from their artists puts dematerialised practices at a disadvantage in claiming their socio-economic values. Addressing this tension, my research analyses the role of contemporary artist publishing as an alternative cultural strategy for representing dematerialised art practices via circulatable and valorised forms of books. Through interviews with artists, publishers, retailers, and collectors around the globe who take part in the valuation ecology of artists’ books, this research charts today’s topography of the medium’s production, distribution, and consumption. In parallel to the qualitative analysis, a practice-based experiment of self-publishing verifies the findings from the interviews and solidifies the idea of artist publishing as a cultural strategy. The preliminary findings of this research are: 1) Artists’ books are a medium that could be chosen by any artist as a cultural strategy, transcending medium specificities; 2) Artists’ books, especially those that are self-published, allow self-representation and self-institutionalisation of artists by giving them aggressive credit in both stages of production and circulation; 3) Artists’ books question the traditional hierarchy of curatorial practices, which often considers publication as subsidiary to the primary mode of exhibition; 4) Artists’ books, as ‘artefacts’ of social and communal practices, propose a particular form of artistic output that evidences the immaterial process and production. These findings point to a particular direction of shift in the paradigm of art consumption, which translates the values of art practices into constructed socio-economic agents to replace the traditional sense of commodifying art.
Featured Beyond Beauty - the Epistemologies and Aesthetic Praxes of Black Women Artists: Not All Teachers Are in the Classroom
Poster Session Jacqueline Cofield
This research investigates the praxes of Black women multimodal artists--including their perspectives, artistic strategies, and creation of material culture objects--to illuminate the ways their work may inspire teachers and learners across a variety of formal and anomalous settings. A central goal is to recognize the knowledge these artists draw upon and produce. Therefore, this study considers Black women artists’ multimodal production and creative values from an inter-arts perspective that reckons with both socio-political critique and aesthetic sensibilities. Theoretical underpinnings for this research are grounded in interlocking critical discourses involving gender, race, power relations, and education. Using a critical arts-knowledge lens, this arts-based project dialogues with and explores ways to make visible the radical aims, unorthodox practices of belonging (McKittrick, 2021), and artistic strategies of Black women artists, to reflect on and reimagine the world as they see and experience it.
Everything around from History to Present: History of Soil
Poster Session Abhishek Abhishek
Everything around humans in history to now. As we all know, the human race started from agricultural practices 8000–10,000 years ago in Nile Valley in Egypt and Indus Valley in India. In India, during the third to second centuries BC, farmers were located near the areas with fertile regur soils. In this poster, we have presented critical points regarding soils in ancient, medieval, and recent eras. In addition, pre- and post-independence periods have been presented to soil research, including pedology and edaphology. The information provided here opens a gate for learners interested in soils and history.
Isabella’s Flight: Aerial System for Drone Puppetry View Digital Media
Poster Session Julia Zamboni
This investigation integrates techniques from traditional puppetry and new technology to develop an experimental aerial puppetry performance Isabella's Flight. This poster presents the creation of two characters, Isabella and El Capitan, and their comic interaction. It describes the in-progress construction, control, and testing of the drone puppets, and discusses our solutions to generate sharper conceptualization, intent, and embodiment in the characters.
Art and Conflict Transformation View Digital Media
Poster Session Lee Rubin
Exploring the relationship between art and justice and the lasting impact that the combination can have in promoting peacebuilding and conflict transformation around the world is vital. Art has been an important element that has been used throughout history for various purposes and holds an intrinsic value to many cultures. It can underpin the way people operate in the world and can reveal customs, beliefs, rituals, tools, and even materials that were and are available. It can expound on a certain period of history, be it war, famine, or political events. It reflects who or what was held in great esteem, what was valued at the time, and perhaps even more importantly, through exclusion, what was not valued. We use art, especially historically, to better understand the broad strokes of those who came before us and what life might have looked like. And while art holds the visual power to demonstrate our past, it also holds the power to elaborate, expound, bring together, highlight, and connect. However, while the history of art has been important in demonstrating culture, a certain disconnect exists when it comes to valuing art as a society in its time, devaluing its impact on change. Art, whether through community engagement, restorative justice, education, or simply personal exploration, creates an interdisciplinary approach to learning and understanding.
