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VIS #14 – THEME: The Heart of the Experiment (and the art of failure)

VIS Issue 14, The Heart of the Experiment (and the art of failure), was published on 21 October 2025. The issue contains eight expositions with focus on experimental art practices and artistic research where the experiment is the heart of the practice and the specific outcome of the process are not known. Editor is Michael Duch, co-editor Tale Næss.

Sett fra et sted, utviklet fra et punkt

A dice roll is the very image of randomness. Every day since September 1, 1994, I have rolled a set of six dice, written down the number combinations and collected the numerical material in an ever-growing physical archive...

Alexander Skantze

Docks and Dramas: Artificial Intelligence as a Storytelling Tool in an Archipelago Setting

Docks and Dramas is an critical exploration of my screenwriter and TV dramatist practice. Through various AI models, I try to generate an episode synopsis for The Sandhamn Murders...

DiPisaStasinski

Gestaltology Encoded

Gestaltology Encoded is an experimental research article in the form of an exposition, centered around the development of an artificial organism, Arcana, coming to life through the artistic research project Gestaltology...

Marcia Nemer

Mapping, forgetting and failure

In the last days of June 2024 I learned something I would rather not know. Aware that the act of forgetting is something that often simply happens, I started a daily practice of checking if I could still remember what I would like to forget...

Simina Oprescu

Listening to a World Coming to Terms with Itself

What if failure is not collapse but recalibration? This research reconsiders seismic activity as a speculative site of vibratory instability, adjustment, and relational tension, rather than disaster...

Helene Berg

Possible and barely possible moves

“No one knows what the experiment is worth, but I imagine it’s better than sitting on your own hands.”  Possible and barely possible moves is inspired by the kung-fu film Drunken Master, where simulated intoxication is used as a way to confuse the opponent...

Elina Koivisto

Rethinking material relations through feminist architectural practice

The exposition explores how conducting architectural practice through the framework of feminist spatial practice can provide possibilities for un-learning harmful habits and reaching towards uncertain speculative futures...

Richard L. Kramár

I Love Listening to Music and Imagining Things Happening

This exposition explores the paradox of rendering visible a research that seeks to remain unseen. It examines concealment, obfuscation, and selective disclosure as strategies of resistance and protection...