Overview
Art research unfolds around a diverse spectrum of multimodality: images, artworks, performances, installations, prototypes, recordings, and printed books... Research results often go beyond typical text-based work. The challenge is to transfer this multitude of formats and materialities into meaningfully networked digital solutions that meet the requirements of Open Science in addition to the artistic approach.
The subproject HSLU DFA also explores the question of what 'meaningful' means in the context of artistic research. One of the premises of artistic research is that the knowledge gained cannot be adequately translated into a text-based form. The sensory experience, be it visual, haptic or spatio-temporal, is indispensable in order to grasp the research arguments and the research results. There are already technical solutions for storing individual elements such as images, audio files and videos in the repositories. The research project aims to develop solutions that allow the recipient to become aware of the interaction of the different media elements and to make accessible the knowledge that can only be found between these different elements.
Based on the case study of the dissertations of the artist Jürgen Buchinger and the designer Lea Schmidt, the requirements of artists and designers are recorded, which are considered a prerequisite for argumentation for the interaction of the different media forms. The solutions will then be developed in exchange with the responsible persons of the DFK Library and the Open Science Managers of the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. One challenge will be to make the needs of artists compatible with the digital infrastructure and the requirements of Open Science.
