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. Introduction to Art Research Methodologies
2. Acoustic Ecology: Human Being vs Human Doing
3. Audio Augmented Reality
4. Towards a Holistic Acoustic Vocabulary
5. Brainwave Synthesis
6. Interaction Design through Visual Programming
7. Bioart, EcoArt, and Vivoart Research
8. Radical Food Science: Post-Gastronomic Arts
9. Bioinformatics and Literary Studies
10. Bioethics Grammatology
11. Body, Animal, Non-Human Ethology: Art and Body in Performance
12. Student Project Presentations I
13. Student Project Presentations II

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

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