EU4ART_differences
About this portal
Budapest, Dresden, Riga, and Rome's art universities make up the European Universities Alliance EU4ART. The Alliance has been working on a concept for a common curriculum in the Fine Arts since 2019. Both our alliance and the European Commission believe that Artistic Research at the university level in Europe must be strengthened substantially. With our proposal EU4ART_differences - Artistic Research in Europe, we have thus applied for additional Horizon2020 funding. We are now one of the 17 higher education alliances in Europe that will create new graduate student and researcher programs.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101016460.
contact person(s):
Claudia Reichert ,
Janis Gailitis url:
https://differences.eu4art.eu
Groups
Dresden University of Fine Arts
This group is for post graduate students of the Dresden University of Fine Arts.
Recent Issues
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1. ABAROMA WORKSHOP
Outputs of the workshop on the use of °'°Kobi and the Research Catalogue, Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, March/April 2024
Recent Activities
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Kobi research testing project
(2024)
author(s): Manuela Violi
published in: EU4ART_differences
This is a test for the AI KOBI project, carried out at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome.
The process begins with a brainstorming session led by Kobi, starting from the text of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet". This initial phase proves to be immediately fruitful, as the responses provided by Kobi not only shed light on new interpretations of the classic themes of the work - such as revenge, existential doubt, and madness - but also stimulate further creative ideas. This dynamic interaction between Kobi and the Shakespearean text transforms into a virtuous cycle: each insight generated opens the way to new questions and research, expanding the scope of the investigation well beyond the originally anticipated boundaries.
The depth of the analysis and the variety of creative ideas that emerged during the brainstorming are then used as a basis to interact with other generative artificial intelligence models. Kobi acts as the primary interface, transforming the insights gathered into complex inputs for these other AI systems, which in turn produce original and sometimes unexpected outputs.
As the process evolves, a rich and multilayered fabric of ideas and creative productions emerges. The goal becomes to explore new creative territories, pushing beyond the limits of traditional interpretations of the Shakespearean work to probe possibilities that have so far been unexplored.
In this context, Kobi's role expands, becoming a true creative collaborator, capable of stimulating human insights through unexpected results.
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DIGITAL RITES and EMBODIED MEMORIES
(2022)
author(s): Elena Giulia Rossi
connected to: EU4ART_differences
published in: Research Catalogue
Creativity at the crossroads of Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming, Alternative Economies, and Humanism, will be discussed by leading voices from the international scene at DIGITAL RITES and EMBODIED MEMORIES, EU4ART_differences Doctoral Summer School.
A group of researchers from different European capitals will meet in the Monastery of Casa San Silvestro in Monte Compatri (Rome Province) for an intensive program that will take them, and their research, to the limit between physical and digital space.
Since the talks and workshops organized by The Fine Arts Academy of Rome mean to contribute on the currently relevant debate on art practice and new technologies, the series of webinars will be free and open to the public through a registration link.
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EU4ART_differences - Documentation
(last edited: 2024)
author(s): Anna Lorenzana, Manuel Macía, Elena Giulia Rossi, Veronica Di Geronimo, FRANCO RIPA DI MEANA, Claudia Reichert
connected to: EU4ART_differences
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The EU4ART Alliance was created by four art academies in Dresden, Rome, Budapest and Riga. The Alliance is convinced that there is a great need for further strengthening the perspectives of fine arts as a culturally, socially and scientifically engaged approach towards a transdisciplinary discourse on society, sciences and humanities, and knowledge and thinking in general. The EU-funded EU4ART_differences project will work to raise each partner’s research profile and promote a high-level culture of artistic research in developing new programmes for postgraduate students and artistic researchers. It is guided by two pillars: knowledge transfer, and building artistic research units and graduate schools that will become part of the shared doctoral and postgraduate research community.
This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101016460.
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Convergences. Creative Research at the Nexus of Art and Science
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Veronica Di Geronimo
connected to: EU4ART_differences
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
"Convergences. Creative Research at the Nexus of Art and Science" presents conversations with four renowned Italian artists who combine their artistic expression with scientific disciplines. The series spotlights José Angelino, Federica Di Carlo, Fuse*, and Luca Pozzi, focusing on how scientific research influences their art, and the methodology adopted in their artistic research.
This initiative is part of a wider program by CARE Lab, a transdisciplinary research laboratory based at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, in partnership with the National Institute of Nuclear Physics at Roma Tre University.
Through these four engaging interviews, the series sheds light on the artists' perspectives and investigative techniques, offering insights into the complex and varied connections and research opportunities that emerge at the intersection of art and science.
Ph: Enrico Bernieri, Cinzia pietribiasi, Dumbbell Nebula, 2023
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HOW TO (NOT) PRODUCE - Fragmente zu sorgender Kunst als Gegenkultur
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Lotte Dohmen
connected to: EU4ART_differences
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
„after the revolution who is going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?
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what is the relationship between maintenance and freedom?
what is the relationship between maintenance and life‘s dreams?“
- fragt Mierle Ladermann Ukeles in ihrem „Manifesto for Maintenance Art“ (1969). Als alleinerziehende Mutter und Künstlerin im New York der 70er Jahre, bleibt ihr aufgrund ausufernder Sorgeverpflichtungen der Zutritt zu Kunsträumen verwehrt. Die Beziehung zwischen instandhaltenden und schöpferischen Prozessen ist eine konkurrierende, nach wie vor. Sorgearbeit muss aus der künstlerischen Sphäre ausgelagert, verschleiert oder wegorganisiert werden, darf in Förderanträgen nicht auftauchen und steht in zeitlicher Konkurrenz zur kreativen Arbeit. Neoliberale Dispositive führen dazu, dass Produktion grundsätzlich höhere Wertschätzung erfährt als Erhaltung, doch wo nähern sich die beiden Bereiche einander an?
Ukulese Ladermann konterte die Zurückweisung mit einem feministischen Manifest, in dem sie Windeln wechseln, Wäsche waschen, Wohnung putzen und Essen kochen, all diese sorgenden Tätigkeiten zur Kunst erklärte. Die künstlerische Recherchearbeit folgt diesen Spuren der Maintenance Art in die Gegenwart, versammelt weitere zeitgenössische best practice Beispiele, reflektiert anekdotisch über aus-Fehlern-lernt-man-Produktionen und versucht sich an einer nicht-hierarchischen Versammlung dieser Fragmente.
Fragmente, die die Dichotomie zwischen Lebensträumen, kreativer Selbstverwirklichung und Freiheit auf der einen Seite und reproduktiver Arbeit, die die Dinge am Laufen hält auf der anderen in Frage stellen. Fragmente, die nach der Kunst im Müßigen, im Notwendigen und Unproduktiven suchen, die Strategien entwickeln entwerfend und gleichzeitig regenerativ zu Arbeiten. Fragmente, die sich um den Prozess sorgen und nicht um das Produkt.
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Hands of perception
(last edited: 2023)
author(s): Ana Pireva
connected to: EU4ART_differences
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The field of my artistic practice stretches between three poles or materials and techniques. This is about the technique of drawing, the litho stone and the paper as a carrier material and at the same time a design element. These three poles are linked to one another on a wide variety of levels.
Ever since I've explored the notion of research in my artistic practice, I've been documenting my thoughts on the medium of drawing in relation to craft. In early 2023 I started my project "Hands of perception" by working in papermaking and printmaking workshops in new locations and documenting this experience.