Integrative Methodologies:
re-negotiating the art/science paradigm. Artists generate
unconventional and imaginative knowledge systems that emerge from
aesthetic reflection and risk-taking processes. Their creative
energies and skills can be used to catalyze, visualize and
re-contextualize the work of scientists, encouraging alternative
investigative methods and oblique approaches to problem solving. UCIRA
will support art/science and artist/scientist collaborative
configurations designed to facilitate new, hybrid, and fusion models
of exchange, co-creation and research practice.
More information about the arts at UC, and University of California
Institute for Research in the Arts programs and initiatives can be
found at www.ucira.ucsb.edu.
roger
Sent: Wed Aug 05 13:10:05 2009
Subject: [ucira] UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR ARTS
RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CONTINUES SUPPORT FOR ARTS RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
SANTA BARBARA, CA (July 7, 2009) - The University of California
Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) has been awarded a major
5-year grant from the UC Office of the President, indicating that the
arts are among the top research priorities for the University of
California system. Following the competitive review of new and
existing research programs and initiatives across the 10-campus
system, UCIRA was awarded $2 million over the next 5 years.
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The UC Institute for Research in the Arts has been housed at UC Santa
Barbara since 2005 and will continue to operate from its offices on
that campus. Current co-directors Kim Yasuda and Marko Peljhan are
"extremely pleased that the UC system has made this commitment to arts
research; in particular, those initiatives that have a broader social
agenda, demonstrate public value and promote innovative
interdisciplinary exchange with agencies and individuals from outside
the University of California system."
With more than 1000 artists and arts researchers currently employed
across its ten campuses, the University of California is home to the
largest group of nationally and internationally recognized artists in
the world. UC is also a leader in interdisciplinary practices that
link research in the arts with the sciences, technology, the
environment, and the public sphere.
UCIRA will launch three new major initiatives in the coming 5-year period:
Social Ecologies: California-centric embedded arts research. With an
eye to richly diverse landscape and challenged relationship between
its natural and developed spaces, UCIRA will provide opportunities for
artists to investigate the diverse terrains of the State. Embedding
artists within various California institution and field contexts
provides support for arts researchers interested in topics as diverse
as agriculture, land and water use, emergent technologies and new
forms of knowledge production and practice.
Social Technologies: new models of value exchange. Current economic
conditions have precipitated a re-emergence of forms of artistic
collectivism, exchange and 'anticipatory' practices, i.e. those that
seek to imagine and address possible future economic and social
modalities. UCIRA will establish opportunities for artists from across
the UC system to enter into situated partnerships with artists,
collectives and other agencies/institutions in order to explore new
methods of value and idea exchange.
Integrative Methodologies: re-negotiating the art/science paradigm.
Artists generate unconventional and imaginative knowledge systems that
emerge from aesthetic reflection and risk-taking processes. Their
creative energies and skills can be used to catalyze, visualize and
re-contextualize the work of scientists, encouraging alternative
investigative methods and oblique approaches to problem solving. UCIRA
will support art/science and artist/scientist collaborative
configurations designed to facilitate new, hybrid, and fusion models
of exchange, co-creation and research practice.
More information about the arts at UC, and University of California
Institute for Research in the Arts programs and initiatives can be
found at www.ucira.ucsb.edu.
ZouZou Chapman
Program Coordinator
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts
6046 HSSB, UC-Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106-7115
zchapman@ucira.ucsb.edu
tel: 805-893-3098
fax: 805-893-4336
http://www.ucira.ucsb.edu
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