[Open Lecture]
Translations, paradoxes and playful displacements – a perspective on artistic research
By Mika Elo

May 19, 17pm
Room PS12, FBAUP

Mika Elo will present some cases of artistic research from his academic environment at Uniarts Helsinki accompanied by some theoretical ideas related to epistemology of artistic research. If ‘art’ is a name for processes and articulations that take their material-discursive embeddedness seriously and commit themselves to developing a heightened sensitivity towards their own mediality, then research that commits to art has tensional relation to presentation. In this talk, Elo will touch upon some aspects of this tension with the help of the notions of translation, paradox and displacement.

Image credit: Detail from the installation Anything new about stones (Mika Elo, 2017).

__
Mika Elo works as professor of artistic research at the University of the Arts Helsinki, Finland. The areas of his research interest include theory of photography, media aesthetics, and epistemology of artistic research. He is participating in the discussions in these areas in the capacity of visual artist, educator, curator and researcher.

Organization:
MDI – Master in Image Design, FBAUP.
iLudens – Ludic Interfaces and Speculative Design, i2ADS.
Philosophical Media (PhilMe), i2ADS.