Research Catalogue

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The Body I Post examines how social media, algorithmic systems, and digital surveillance reshape contemporary understandings and performances of the body. Against the backdrop of theoretical frames leading from Foucault to N. Katherine Hayles, the project at hand scrutinizes the dynamics of shifting gazes, erosion of privacy, and the emergence of the posthuman subject. The work identifies the means by which identities are extracted, categorized, and refashioned through platform infrastructures and biased datasets, by investigating case studies such as Face to Facebook, Amalia Ulman’s Excellences & Perfections, and Trevor Paglen’s ImageNet Roulette. The research combines social experiments, visual references, and personal reflection to explore how bodies are curated for visibility, disciplined by metrics, and archived in ever-expanding digital memory systems. It questions the tension between material embodiment and its algorithmically mediated double and the ways in which humans have become simultaneously users, subjects, and raw data. The Body I Post is about what it means for us to exist as hybrids of flesh and code in an era where self-presentation has become continuous, performative, and inseparable from technological systems.

Hér má finna allar helstu upplýsingar um Research Catalogue (RC) og hvernig hægt er að nýta vettvanginn til að halda utan um og birta rannsóknarafrakstur við Listaháskóla Íslands. RC er opinn vettvangur fyrir akademíska starfsmenn og meistaranema til að miðla afrakstri listrannsókna á greinargóðan og aðgengilegan hátt.

We are pleased to announce the release of HUB - Journal of Research in Art, Design and Society, Issue #5 Duration? Dur(action)!. Guided by the collective of guest editors PÁR-A-GEM, this edition offers in-depth explorations of the intersections between media, temporality, and embodied artistic research.

Desert Dwelling is a research project conducted by Associate professor Christine Hansen and Independent Artist Line Anda Dalmar. The desert is used as a site and framework to reflect on landscape, environment and time. In addition, Desert Dwelling endeavor to explore the act of observation and documentation. The project uses common documentation/observation methods such as photography, video and sound. In addition, we employ more obsolete and time-consuming observation means such as drawing, casting and watercolor painting. This is to stress that different observation methods render the world differently, and provide noninterchangeable information about the world. Much of the visual material is from a field study in deserts in California in spring 2018. The study took place mainly in Death Valley and Joshua Tree and had a processual method. We selected a place in the desert and stayed there until we found something interesting to work with. Every day, we made experiences that we built on the next day. The working method focused on the fluid relationship between process, work and documentation.

In A place Like This sets out to investigate and expand the issues and critical discourses within Sandborg and Higgins' current collaborative research practice. The central focus for the research is concerned with how art, in this instance photographic and painted image making and text, can be used as an agent or catalyst of understanding and critical reflection. The research methodology is constructed through photography, painting, drawing and text. This utilises the form of an artist publication as a point of critically engaged dissemination: a place for the tension between conflicting ideas and investigation to be explored through discussion. The research question is focused on how the production of the image and the act of making images can communicate or describe moments of erasure or remembering in terms of historical and personal narratives with direct reference to moments of violence and place. This is seen not in terms of a nostalgic remembrance of the past; instead as one that is rife with complicated layers and dynamics where recognition is denied the ability to locate a physical representation. Embedded in this is an exploration of particular questions concerning the ethics of representation: the depiction of ourselves and other? In this sense it brings into question an examination of the act of remembering as a thing in itself, through the production of the image and text, contexts of knowledge and cultural discourses explored through the form of an artists publication.