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DIS_SEMINAR #2
foto: Thomas de Wit

On 16 January 2026, platform art ≈ research, the Willem de Kooning Academy and the Scientific Integrity Committee for the KUO organized a joint working day on the theme of ethics. We met at HKU to work together on the poster/zine about ethical issues and to reflect on the new NGWI code. There were about twenty participants, consisting of PhD-candidates and researchers, committee members of the CWI and research support staff.

In the morning program, Miriam Rasch and Florian Cramer took us through their third and final workshop on ethical issues in artistic research.

Last year, platform art ≈ research published an open call among our members on the theme of ethics. In response, Miriam Rasch, Florian Cramer and Harma Staal from the Willem de Kooning Academy organized a three-part workshop on ethical issues in artistic art education and -research in 2025/2026. In the first workshop (spring 2025), we discussed (un)ethical attitudes and behaviors. The second workshop (autumn 2025) focused on (un)ethical topics.

In this third workshop, we examined the results of the first two workshops. In preparation, Florian and Miriam had summarized these results in a draft to be used as a starting point for a poster, that can be folded into a zine. In groups, we reflected on this edit in terms of wording, topics and recommendations. Topics such as working with others, ambiguity, failure, cultural appropriation and activism were discussed. We also reflected on the rapid developments within ethics as a theme: it may well be that our conclusions will be outdated in a few years’ time, which underlines the importance of an ongoing dialogue.

In the afternoon, the KUO-CWI (the complaints committee for the seven mono-sectoral art academies) worked with participants on the code of conduct for integrity. Following the 2018 code of conduct, a new code of conduct will be introduced in the spring of 2026. This code of conduct is endorsed and will be implemented by all art academies. The KUO is responding to the current draft, partly through this meeting. How does the code relate to art research and art education? How will it be implemented?

In groups, we discussed the code itself, but also who had encountered it before and in what way and situations where the code applies to our (daily) work. We then zoomed in on the five principles highlighted in the code (fair, careful, transparent, responsible) and what issues arose for us when we linked these principles to the realities and challenges of artistic research.

For example, how are these principles implemented in consortia and collaborations with external partners – what if they do not endorse this code, or endorse it to a lesser extent? How do we jointly determine what is complied with and how can we make the code tangible and relevant in the heat of the moment?

The minutes of the meeting will be compiled and submitted by the KUO-CWI to the NGWI, so that the feedback can be incorporated into the final version. The poster/zine of the Willem de Kooning Academy is expected to be published in the spring of 2026.

• 27 January 9.30-10.30hrs CET time.
• 19 February 16.00-17.00hrs CET time.

Platform Kunst ≈ Onderzoek, in collaboration with the Data in the Arts knowledge group (HKU, AHK, and ArtEZ), presents a short informative animation about data management in artistic research. This English-language video addresses questions that researchers have about the theme of “data” and how it applies to art research, highlighting the complexity that can arise. There are more questions than answers, but together we are learning and professionalizing more and more.

Animation by Mud Motion
Script by Iris Spanbroek
Featuring images of “The Aesthetics of Touch” by Marloeke van der Vlugt

Last February, the workshop “Ethics in the Minor Key” took place, organised between AHK, HA, GRA, TU Eindhoven, Fonts, CARADT / Avans, and UvA.

Lead by Gabriele Ferri and Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca, the workshop focused on ethical frameworks and its complexities.

The result of the workshop is a zine, a pdf of which you can view below!

Universities of applied science are responsible for higher vocational education, and also increasingly acting as knowledge institutions. The practice-based research that is conducted at these institutions, must comply with high quality standards. Therefore, the Netherlands Association of Universities of Applied Sciences adopted the policy to implement the Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity (NGWI, October 2018) at all Universities of Applied Science.

After a successful first DIS_SEMINAR in 2019, the platform will organise a second edition in 2022. This will include space for alternative forms of sharing artistic and design research, and attention to ethical issues. If you’re a professor, lecturer/researcher, postdoc or third cycle researcher or a curious student, feel welcome to join. The program will consist out of presentations and interactive working session by different professorships in art & design.

Admission is free of charge, but registration is required.

Soon we’ll publish the full programme.

Registration is open now: please fill in the form here.

On Tuesday 29 November 2022 from 10.00 to 18.00, the platform kunst ≈ onderzoek (‘art = research’) will again organise a exposium. The location for this edition is Fort De Batterijen in Nieuwegein, close to Utrecht.

 
The name of this year’s edition remains the same as in 2019: DIS_SEMINAR as we prolong the theme of alternative forms of dissemination of research in the arts. We regard the event as an informal setting to present research in the arts to each other, discuss and exchange them, and together contribute to the discourse of artistic research in the Netherlands. The programme is set up as such that it’s for the professorships, by the professorships. Therefore we hope we can count on your participation!

The Maastricht Experimental Research In and through the Arts Network (MERIAN) invites artists and academics to engage in collaborative research in between making and thinking.

More information: https://www.academictransfer.com/en/316412/merian-phd-candidate-in-maastricht-style-artistic-research/

Janneke Wesseling will soon retire and has therefore recently resigned from her duties as figurehead of the Art route. She proposed Michel van Dartel as her successor, a proposal that was wholeheartedly supported by the steering committee of the Art route. Van Dartel is director of the platform for art and media technology V2_Lab in Rotterdam and lector at Avans Center for Art Design and Technology.

Van Dartel supports the goals of the NWA (De Nationale Wetenschapsagenda) and the mission of the Art route as formulated under the chairmanship of Wesseling. “The confidence that the route instills in me is an enormous stimulus, also for the work that I do as a director and lector,” says Van Dartel.

In this article he introduces himself.

Announcing the new issue of APRIA Journal, Urgent Publishing, edited by Miriam Rasch and Nishant Shah, with contributions by Florian Cramer, Labor Neunzehn, Miriam Rasch and Paul Soulellis.

You are cordially invited to CORRECTIONVILLE #01 which will focus on the cartopological craft by facilitating workplaces and dealing with documentation and observation techniques through workshops. Lectures will be organized to further explore the theoretical cartopological framework. CORRECTIONVILLE #01 is an initiative of the Institute of Cartopology. As such, it forms a part of Marlies Vermeulen’s PhD research at Zuyd University, Research Centre for Arts, Autonomy and the Public Sphere and of MERIAN. The first edition will take place at HX Hoogcruts 47, Noorbeek (NL). Like any city, CORRECTIONVILLE #01 is growing organically and not every square meter is planned. CORRECTIONVILLE #01 is open to initiatives from other mapmakers to claim a place and experiment! Apply before July 15.

More information www.cartopology.institute

This issue of APRIA, Time Matters, was compiled and edited by the ArtEZ Theory in the Arts professorship. All of these reviewed artistic (research) and academic contributions were created and written specially in response to the four-part Time Matters seminar (2019-2020). The aim of the publication and the seminar is to inquire into the changing concepts of time in the arts and other epistemic fields collectively, and to explore and test alternative – past, present and future-oriented – temporalities.

https://apria.artez.nl/issue/time-matters/

The Research Centre Art & Society currently has a vacancy for a PhD candidate Art & Society.