Artistic Intelligence invites WG3 Members to submit a contribution to the upcoming WG3 meeting on 13th-14th of June 2025, in a face-to-face format.
The meeting will take place in Prague, Checzia, AVU-Academy of Fine Arts Prague (Šaloun Studio, AVU-Academy of Fine Arts Prague, Slovenská 4, 101 00 Praha 10).
Please see the full agenda and invitation here
The deadline for proposal submission has been extended to Wednesday 28th. May 12:00CET
Proposed Contribution
The proposed contribution, in the form of a 10-minute presentation, should address the following agreed-upon topics:
1a. Identifying and describing existing platforms for referencing.
1b. Experimenting/testing with the platforms in relation to how artistic research content is represented.
2a. Artists challenging the formats of artistic research and standard referencing systems.
2b. Artists employing AI/ML in artistic research.
Please send your proposal by 25th May 2025.
Travel Reimbursement
The travel reimbursements will be based on the proposals received and in keeping with the COST Excellence and Inclusiveness Policy.
Please consider that, sadly, we cannot cover everyone’s travel expenses to Prague. Still, we will do our best so that the session on day 2 is available remotely.
In case you are not reimbursed for the WG3 meeting and can cover travel expenses from your own institution, you are very welcome to attend in person. Also, please let us know if you need an invitation letter to search for funding. We’ll be happy to provide it.
We kindly ask you not to make any booking before receiving confirmation of acceptance and the invitation from e-COST.
If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact us.
Kindest regards,
Casper Schipper (WG3 leader) (casper@researchcatalogue.net)
Paulo Luís Almeida (Chair) (palmeida@fba.up.pt)
Margarida Dias (GH manager) (mddias@fba.up.pt)
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Preliminary Agenda
(changes may occur!)
The first day (13th June 2025) will be a joint meeting with the Research Catalogue Portal Partners Meeting, to address the exposition format from the perspective of research focus and referencing.
The second day (14th June 2025) will be dedicated to an internal meeting of WG3 for presentations and inputs from participants on specific topics of Task 1.
DAY 1, 13th June 2025
Šaloun Studio, AVU-Academy of Fine Arts Prague
10:00 Main Research Catalogue (RC) Developments: New Media Transcoder, Framework Transfer and Forms Redesigns presented by Casper and Plenary (40 minutes)
10:40 Portal Challenges, Opportunities and Ideas
Intro and Breakout session with members of the RC Monitoring Group
Experience, Exchanges and Inputs for Further Developments / RC for Collective Artistic Intelligence (60 min)
11:40 Break
12:00 Main Aims and Organisation of the COST Action Funded Application Artistic Intelligence presented by COST Chair Paulo Luis Almeida (20 minutes)
12:20 RC as Knowledge/Referencing Basis for Artistic Research / Expositions by Statistics / RC for Collective Artistic Intelligence by Casper Schipper and Daniele Pozzi (40 min)
13:00 Lunch
14:45 Reflections on an Exposition in the Perspective of Research Focus and Referencing
Group discussions on how close readings of expositions can be used for teaching purposes.
Plenary Intro and Breakout Session on pre-distributed expositions (90 minutes)
DAY 2, 14th June 2025
Šaloun Studio, AVU-Academy of Fine Arts Prague
10:00 - 10:15 | Introduction (Casper Schipper)
* Brief introductions
* Recap of previous discussions and objectives
10:15 – 10:45 | Review of Practical Tools (Casper Schipper)
I suggest we discuss the WG’s online presence to ease online collaboration and continue work between meetings. I will take us into the actions’ Nextcloud and discuss which elements we might choose for communication. I will also show our current archive of recordings on the Research Catalogue and how we might extend this page collectively.
11:00 - 12:30 | Existing frameworks, experiences and challenges (Presenting Participants)
Short presentation and discussion on inputs from participants:
Experience in current referencing within artistic research:
- How has prior work influenced your artistic research project?
- How did we discover relevant artistic research online and offline?
- In what ways can results and methodologies be discoverable and transferable to other researchers?
- What specific challenges are there in finding references for artistic research?
- What platforms are relevant (also beyond RC)?
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 | Search, Taxonomies in the Research Catalogue
* Collective reading of examples in the Research Catalogue.
* Navigating the RC by its keywords and abstracts. What can we learn from the RC?
15:30 - 16:30 Strategy Brainstorm Session (all participants)
* How can ML/AI help encourage referencing within artistic research?
* How do we make sure that the producers of artistic research outcomes can have agency within these systems about how they are represented?
* How do we avoid other common pitfalls and ethical issues that occur with the use of AI/ML?
* Is there artist work that might be relevant here (artists that deal with AI/ML and Artistic intelligence)?
16:30 - 17:00 Closing and next steps