Art Research Methods

Upon the successful completion of the course the students should be able to:



• Demonstrate an appreciation and understanding of diverse perspectives by actively engaging in commentary and discussions within the course context.

• Express personal exploration and creativity through innovative bioresearch projects that showcase individual experiences and perspectives.

• Creatively apply research in art and art in research practices
• Develop detailed and creative research paths that infuse artistic and written projects with curiosity and exploration, ensuring a rich and innovative approach to project development.
• Sharpen their perception of the acoustic environment and their awareness of acoustic notions, such as balance, variety, randomness
• Develop and execute experimental food preparations, interspecies performances, or other unconventional projects as valid means of exploration and expression within the field.

• Describe and analyse sound elements and structures.
• Analyse and evaluate the intricate relationship between safety, aesthetics, and responsibility inherent in the field of study through hands-on experiences.

• Collect and present weekly articles or images relevant to the subject matter for group discussion, sourcing information from diverse mediums including online sources, popular press, scientific journals, and trade magazines.

• Explore the concept of living art as a medium and message, critically examining its complexities and nuances through multifaceted research and project work.

• Utilise research time to challenge and decode personal cultural preconceptions, fostering a deeper understanding of how these perceptions influence creative processes within the field.


1. Experimental Research in Bioart: Creative Lifeworld Remash Overview
2. Interpreting Science in Bioart: Bioinformatics, Wet Lab, and Home Lab Building
3. Research Methods in Bioart: New Media, Asemic Assets, and Sound/Text Footnotes
4. Sound Education: Acoustic Ecology and the Tuning of the World
5. Soundscape & Electroacoustic Synthesis: Liberating Sound
6. The Internet of Audio Things: Walking in Immersive Acoustic Spaces
7. Hybrid DNA Isolation Bioart Wet-Lab and Performing Ethics Forms (Winter School)
8. Visual Programming Hands on Lab (Winter School)
9. On Land: Walking Methodologies Across Urban and Natural Spaces
10. In-Between: Performing Peripheries, Intertidal Zones, and Coasts
11. At / Into the Sea: Drifting and Floating as Performative Processes
12. Assignments Discussion and Q&A
13. & 14. Student Project Presentations

Howell, A. (1999). The Analysis of Performance Art. Oxon; New York: Routledge. 

Latour, B., & Woolgar, S. (1986). Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Leavy, P. (2025). Handbook of Arts-Based Research, New York: The Guilford Press. 

Magrane, E., Russo, L., De Leeuw, S, Perez-Santos (2020). Geopoetics in Practice. New York: Routledge. 

Mentz, S. (2024). An Introduction to the Blue Humanities, New York: Routledge. 

O’Rourke, K. (2013). Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers. The MIT Press 

Rogers, H. S., Halpern, M. K., Hannah, D., & de Ridder-Vignone, K. (Eds.). (2021). The Routledge Handbook of Art, Science, and Technology Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Schafer, R. M. (1993). The soundscape: Our sonic environment and the tuning of the world. Simon and Schuster.

Scott, J. (Ed.). (2006). Artists-in-labs: Processes of Inquiry. Vienna: Springer-Verlag.

Scott, J. (Ed.). (2010). Artists-in-labs: Networking in the Margins. Vienna: Springer-Verlag.

Scott, J., & Hediger, I. (Eds.). (2016). Recomposing Art and Science: Artists-in-labs. Berlin, Germany & Boston, MA: Walter de Gruyter.

Springgay, S. And Truman, Sarah, E. (2019). Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World. New York: Routledge. 

Wershler, Darren, et al. The Lab Book: Situated Practices in Media Studies. U of Minnesota Press, 2022. 

• Project-based learning
• Hands-on learning

Use of ICT, multimedia, in teaching, laboratory education, communication with students.

• Assignments 40%
• Final Project 50%
• In-class participation and discussions: 10 %

Grades are from 0.0-10.0