Thank you for your interest in Research Cafe, an informal seminar series where you can learn more about various research methodologies from different senior researchers at Rietveld and Sandberg. These seminars are open to all students, staff, tutors, and alumni of Gerrit Rietveld Academie and Sandberg Instituut. Below you can find more information about each session. Preparation is not necessary. Please sign up via the form below. Per session we have space for 20 participants.
Location: Library Gerrit Rietveld Academie
Please note that the first three sessions are open for registration from the 1st of October and that the last three sessions are open for registration from the 1st of December.
Gabrielle Kennedy
Interviewing for facts - Journalism as a research tool and language
16-11-2023 / 17.30-19.30
The essential skill of journalism is knowing how to conduct compelling interviews, and how to engage with subjects. Every strong journalist brings a unique sensitivity to an interview which is ultimately what will create an original tone of voice and lend work a unique atmosphere.
In this workshop participants will immerse themselves in a range of hands-on exercises, such as mock interviews and real-world case studies to gain practical insights into crafting incisive questions. The focus is on the importance of establishing trust, fostering authentic connections, and respecting artistic integrity.
Journalism in the cultural world sits at the intersection of art and story telling - stories should be captivating while enriching discourse that connects art and the wider world. The responsibility of art and design journalism is to catalyze critical conversations - to inspire, provoke, and unite.
Flavia Dzodan
AI prompt crafting
07-12-2023
We will explore the theoretical foundations of AI, delving into the intricate process of training AI models and understanding their underlying mechanisms. Through a hands-on approach, attendees will learn to craft prompts that resonate with AI applications, both text and image based, fostering a dialogue that can yield insightful text and evocative imagery as well as aid research practices. The session will have a generative approach, focusing on free to use applications. The goal is to use these tools as starting points for art making, design and research. Please bring your laptop as well as a notebook and pen.
Patricia de Vries
Formulating a Research Question
11-01-2024
How to move from a general topic of interest to a topic of inquiry? And how to narrow your topic of inquiry to a research question? Research questions are the questions you answer in or through your work. These questions give structure to your work. The questions you ask are related to the research you do and the work you want to create.
During this seminar, you aim to move from a general topic of interest to a more (or less) specified and framed research question that will help you structure your thinking, doing, making and researching.
Femke Herregraven
Collective Practice
15-02-2024
In this seminar we will discuss the question of how collective an artistic practice is, and how much of the artistic process is a shared conversation with other makers both human and beyond-human. We will discuss a number of collaborative artistic practices which challenge the notion of authorship while simultaneously producing distinct artistic voices. We will also engage in a collective experiment together.
Paula Albuquerque
How to prepare for Third Cycle in Artistic Research
14-03-2024
What follows a Master of Fine Arts when one desires further development in one’s education as artist? How to become aware of what a potential PhD (or equivalent) in the Arts mail entail, and for whom may this represent a suitable trajectory? The session consists of a short introduction to the different possibilities to choose from when pursuing a Third cycle in education in the Arts in the Netherlands (including insights into prospective collaborations with institutions abroad). This entails highlighting the differences between the formal degrees entitled Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Professional Doctorate (PD) and the Rietveld’s own Creator Doctus (CrD). During an open conversation, we will look together at what is on offer, from enrolling in a pre-existing programme at a University or Art Academy to creating one’s own “protocol” by reaching out to those in the professional/academic/institutional field best suited as supervisors. Depending on the number of participants we will focus on individual situations and discuss how to jumpstart a formal application procedure, both as internal and as external candidates. Content-wise, attention will be dedicated to discerning the balance between practice and theory in the different Third cycle programmes in the Arts available.
Tom Vandeputte
What is Critique?
11-04-2024
This year's research seminar with Tom Vandeputte returns to the question how critique may be understood today. We consider the history of the concept, tracing its key transformations and reinterpretations over the course of the twentieth century, and discuss what it might mean to think of critique as a ‘theoretical practice’. Special attention will be paid to the negativity at stake in critical inquiry, as well as the question how we might understand its inventive and imaginative elements.
