The Logic of Artistic Research

TY - CONF

T1 - The Logic of Artistic Research

AU - Lushetich, Natasha

N1 - Conference code: 8th

PY - 2025/12/9

Y1 - 2025/12/9

N2 - This paper focuses on three artistic methods: a/r/tography; deep mapping; and cross-medial matrixing. A/r/tography encompasses a host of practice-based methods of inquiry attentive to contiguity and resonance, motion and materiality, possibility and potentiality. Deep mapping refers to multi-layered accounts of a place and uses geographic information and positioning systems, images, artistic and engineering drawing techniques (e.g. light drawing), and auto-ethnographic accounts. Cross-medial matrixing – where ‘matrixing’ refers to a process of emergent action-based structuring across media – relies on transposition, layering and symbolic compression. Transposition uses one or two media different from the medium in which the initial artefact was created to further explore relational potential, e.g. by transposing an image to a sound sequence or choreographic notation. Layering uses sequences from procedural media (music, film, performance, durational painting) to re-structure compositions or artefacts, while symbolic compression relies on spatial and temporal compression to create symbolic resonance (e.g. by condensing the duration of a human life into the time it takes a human body-shaped candle to burn). Employing artistic (e.g. Arata), philosophical (e.g. Derrida), and media-archaeological (e.g. Huhtamo) theories of tracing, the paper will ‘distil’ the prevalent, although not universal, logic of artistic research.

AB - This paper focuses on three artistic methods: a/r/tography; deep mapping; and cross-medial matrixing. A/r/tography encompasses a host of practice-based methods of inquiry attentive to contiguity and resonance, motion and materiality, possibility and potentiality. Deep mapping refers to multi-layered accounts of a place and uses geographic information and positioning systems, images, artistic and engineering drawing techniques (e.g. light drawing), and auto-ethnographic accounts. Cross-medial matrixing – where ‘matrixing’ refers to a process of emergent action-based structuring across media – relies on transposition, layering and symbolic compression. Transposition uses one or two media different from the medium in which the initial artefact was created to further explore relational potential, e.g. by transposing an image to a sound sequence or choreographic notation. Layering uses sequences from procedural media (music, film, performance, durational painting) to re-structure compositions or artefacts, while symbolic compression relies on spatial and temporal compression to create symbolic resonance (e.g. by condensing the duration of a human life into the time it takes a human body-shaped candle to burn). Employing artistic (e.g. Arata), philosophical (e.g. Derrida), and media-archaeological (e.g. Huhtamo) theories of tracing, the paper will ‘distil’ the prevalent, although not universal, logic of artistic research.

UR - https://sites.google.com/view/unilog2025/workshops/potpourri

M3 - Other

T2 - 8th World Conference and School on Universal Logic

Y2 - 4 December 2025 through 14 December 2025

ER -