Abstract

Keywords: artistic research, experimental system, experimental cultures, history of science, research cultures, experimental arts, epistemology.

In this paper we use developments in the history of science to demonstrate the significance of experimental cultures and epistemic spaces within artistic research as an experimental system. We propose that ‘artistic products’ are process artefacts, which are of epistemic nature (epistemic-aesthetic things). We suggest that artistic research provides a unique opportunity to integrate diverse epistemic practices that currently exist outside traditional institutional frameworks to develop new hypotheses-generating experimental cultures.

• Andrew Newman, National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Matthias Tarasiewicz, Artistic Technology Research, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria

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