Henk Borgdorff

Henk Borgdorff has been appointed 1 September 2010 as visiting professor of aesthetics at the Faculty of Fine Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg, with a focus on art practice. His teaching and research concerns the theoretical and political rationale of ‘artistic research’.

At the moment Borgdorff is involved in several projects which aim to enhance the infrastructure and environment of research in the arts in Europe and beyond.

JAR – The Journal for Artistic Research

The Journal for Artistic Research is an international, online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal (in the making) for the identification, publication, dissemination and discussion of artistic research.
JAR’s editorial policy is to feature artistic research outputs from across all fields. By creating a publication and dissemination space for such outputs, it fulfills a crucial role within the developing field of artistic research. Henk Borgdorff is one of the editors of JAR.

For more information see: www.jar-online.net

SAR - The Society for Artistic Research

The Society for Artistic Research is an independent, non-profit association set up for the purpose of publishing the Journal for Artistic Research. SAR is materially supported by an ever-growing number of art and higher education institutes in Europe and beyond. SAR was founded on March 6, 2010 in Berne, Switzerland. Henk Borgdorff was one of the founders and he is a permanent guest of its executive board.

ARC – The Artistic Research
Catalogue project

ARC is a two year international project - involving 18 institutes - to develop a web-based repository, which will serve to expose, document, stage, communicate and disseminate artistic research by students, independent artists and art institutes world wide. Michael Schwab (London) and Henk Borgdorff are the project leaders.

For more information see: www.kabk.nl/pageEN.php?id=0485

SHARE – Step-change Higher
Arts Research Education

SHARE was one of only eight academic networks to be selected by the European Comission for funding, and the grant could count as a recognition of art and artistic research as a full academic discipline, its role in the creative economy, and of the need for further development of an international academic community and a coordinated approach towards research in the arts.

SHARE (2010-2013) is co-ordinated by ELIA, involves 35 institutes of higher arts education in 26 countries, and consists of three networks:

• A network of existing graduate schools to develop innovative, cross-disciplinary approaches and programmes of world-class excellence, building upon the current EARN European Artistic Research Network;
   
• A newly to form network for developing third-cycle education, providing information, support and a collaboration base for programmes in the start-up phase;
   
• A network of researchers and supervisors, continuing and expanding the EUFRAD forum for research degrees in arts and design.

Working groups will be concerned with the validation, advocacy, and dissemination of artistic research; conferences in Copenhagen, London, and Brussels are envisioned. Henk Borgdorff is chair of the SHARE working group on validation.