The Research Catalogue (RC) is a non-commercial, collaboration and publishing platform for artistic research provided by the
Society for Artistic Research. The RC is free to use for artists and
researchers. It
serves also as a backbone for teaching purposes, student assessment, peer review workflows and research funding administration. It strives to be
an open space for experimentation and exchange.
recent activities
WE LEFT EDEN - Marius Igland Group
(2024)
Marius Igland
We left Eden
Performed by
Marius Igland Group
Musicians:
Sebastian Grüchot Violin
Trygve Rypestøl Sax
Bjørn Rønnekleiv Clarinets
Marius Igland Guitar
Espen Grundetjern Bass
Trygve Tambs-Lyche Drums
Production
Camera Andi Gyberg
Lights design Andi Gyberg
Sound Engineer Espen Grundetjern
Consultant Espen Grundetjern
Producer Marius Igland
Editor Marius Igland
Mix/master Marius Igland
Music
All compositions and arrangements by Marius Igland
Timestamps:
0:14 - Prologue
3:18 - I - A different Animal
11:55 - II - Exploring
19:15 - III - Ambience
27:55 - IV - Water
32:59 - V - Anthropocen
41:07 - VI - Chronophobia
48:31 - VII - Forward we go
53:12 - VII - Returning
This production was shot live in Kristiansand, Norway
12th of May, 2024
Prodigal Misfortunes
(2024)
Pedro Alegria, Alexandra Abranches
Prodigal Misfortunes fuses digital drawing with eerie storytelling to create a captivating realm where the boundaries between the visual and narrative blur, inviting audiences into a unique experience. This synthesis leverages the strengths of both mediums, with the algorithmic medium providing a limitless canvas for visual exploration and the eerie narratives weaving complex, thought-provoking tales that engage the imagination and evoke deep emotional responses.
Algorithmic drawing, with its capacity for intricate detail and surreal environments, sets the stage for stories that push beyond the ordinary, crafting scenes that are as haunting as they are beautiful. The eerie storytelling, in turn, infuses the artwork with a narrative depth that transforms each piece into a window into otherworldly tales, filled with mystery and the uncanny.
But algorithms are not neutral entities and its socio-political effects result from the will of real individuals behind them who use them as an apparatus for social control. Thus, we endeavor to maintain an explicit distance between artist and computer, in the context of the emerging AI/LLM technologies that threaten to reverse the mind-over-matter stance of classic dualism.
The use of mathematical chance through algorithmic processes to create drawings, aims to break free from technological functionalism. Mathematical randomness serves as a tool to explore the artist's inner self. Despite their digital nature, these drawings are firmly rooted in the tradition of drawing: they serve as a medium for expressing the artist's thoughts, embody the process of transferring these ideas onto a canvas over time, and highlight the artist's presence.
Through a created software tool the software that produces the drawing stands as an artwork on par with the produced images, although remaining invisible. Thousands of lines of code have been written, although they remain in obscurity as an inherent aspect of its personal nature.
Rogues
(2024)
Hanns Holger Rutz, Nayari Castillo-Rutz
A work-in-progress artistic research project. Initiated by Hanns Holger Rutz and Nayarí Castillo in autumn 2021, it develops into multiple intermedia objects that involve collaboration between different artists, objects that engage in sensorial exchange among themselves and with humans. This exposition is very much in flux, trying to capture the meanderings of the process.
recent publications
A Certain Kind of Freedom
(2024)
Marinos Koutsomichalis
Άφρικα: A Certain Kind of Freedom is pivoting on artistic exploration and re-interpretation of a 'difficult' recent past. In part soundwalk, in part performance art, in part punk archaeology, in part getting lost in the dark; the work is a nocturnal rumination bringing together historical bewilderedness with first-person embodied experience of a place. The artist leads a night walk towards and inwards Agios Achillios island in Small Prespa Lake in Greece – near the borders of Albania, and North Macedonia – and back. En route, the walking audience is exposed to wildlife sounds and animal vocalisations, to orchestrated drama, and to historical records directly or indirectly concerning the broader geographical area and its significance during the Greek civil war.
PROVENIR DEL PORVENIR
(2024)
Paula Urbano
In Provenir del porvenir Urbano hovers through the fields of sociology, archaeology and philosophy while reflecting on the different mediations of the work: the guided tour, the performance lecture and the video essay. The exposition is based on a speculative artistic-historiographic project where the artist, in the context and aesthetics of the Museum of History, connects her own genealogy with the North. The investigation is a response to recurrent question to people of color living in Scandinavia: “Where do you come from?” This question leads to an epistemological enquire, discussing the limits of knowledge production on a scientific basis versus knowledge production on an artistic basis.
TO THE ONE I MISS
(2024)
Min Ji Cha
[SCHOOL] Thesis / Research Document of the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, 2024.
[DEPARTMENT ] BA Interactive Media Design
[SUMMERY]
How can one unravel their relationship with a void through exploring their personal experience and knowledge of emptiness?
Starting from the long lost frustration and unfulfillment for the inner void that I entail and wanting to define and understand what this void is and gain safety and peace in mind with it. By unraveling the complicated knot of the relationship between human and inner void, looking into different experiences of “missing” in my personal life and knowledge of emptiness, such as Korean cultural background, Language gap in translation,
Definition of “Home”, Ambivalence in emotion, Moon jar, Clay and The connection in everything.