ABOUT VIS

VIS aims to be a primary source of knowledge for anyone who wants to learn about, and immerse themselves in, the artistic research emanating from the Nordic region, as well as being a platform for international research that places a similar emphasis upon reflection. It is an open-access publication and uses the SAR Research Catalogue publishing platform for its submission and peer-reviewing processes, as well as for its final publications. The VIS website was released on 9 April 2018, together with the first Issue – Issue 0.

As the artistic research community has grown internationally, so has cooperation in this field between many Nordic art-education institutions. We share supervisors and expert committee members in what are often small and specialized fields of art; our teaching staff participate in exchanges and move between neighbouring countries, we utilise each other’s expertise in university and faculty boards and our students and staff participate in each other’s forum meetings and research events.

Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH) and the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (part of Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills) are happy to have been able to join forces in creating and supporting a digital journal for artistic research. The journal is published twice a year and every issue features 5–7 peer-reviewed expositions. With this journal, we intend to contribute to insight, knowledge and awareness of the methods, contexts and ethical issues relevant to artistic processes. The hope is that having such a unified and widely-recognised regional resource will further strengthen Nordic cooperation in artistic research.

VIS is chaired by a Steering Committee consisting of three members from Stockholm University of the Arts (SKH), and three members from The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (part of Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills). An Editorial Committee, consisting of seven members, is responsible for content, for the peer-review process and for issuing calls for each new issue. The Committee has adopted an approach to peer-reviewing in which, rather than the process being blind, a dialogue is established between author(s) and reviewer.

VIS holds an open call for every issue. Up to seven expositions are selected by the Editorial Committee for entry into the collaborative peer-review process.

Published expositions in VIS are using the Creative Commons licence CC BY-NC-ND. This license is restrictive and only allowing others to download your works and share them with others as long as they credit you, but they can’t change them in any way or use them commercially. Read more.

STEERING COMMITTEE

Paula Crabtree
Vice-Chancellor, Stockholm University of the Arts, SKH

Paula Crabtree is an artist and anthropologist. She was Rector at Bergen Academy of Art and Design (KHiB) in Norway (2010–2014). Since 2012 has been Vice President of ELIA- European League of Institutes of the Arts. She has served on several advisory boards focusing on Arts based / artistic research such as PEEK in Austria and the Swiss University Programme for collaborative doctorates. Crabtree is also a member of the Strategic Orientation Council at PSL Paris Research University.

Ann Kroon
Director of the Research Office, Stockholm University of the Arts, SKH

Ann Kroon is Director of the Research Office at SKH, which is responsible for support to research and doctoral education. She holds a PhD in sociology from Uppsala University (2007) and has broad experience from teaching, research and administration, with several international elements. Ann is also further educated in photography and artistic research at Valand Academy and Konstfack.

Geir Ivar Strøm
Policy director, The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (part of Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills)

Geir Ivar Strøm is Director of the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. He is graduated from NHH Norwegian School of Economics and has a long experience as administrator of higher education and research from different positions and institutions in Norway. He has been active in Norwegian and Nordic university administration networks and is elected member of the board of the Society for artistic research (SAR)

Michael Duch
Appointed by the Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (part of Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills)

Michael Duch is a Professor of double bass at the Department of Music, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim, where he currently holds the position as Deputy Head of Research. Michael Duch is an alumni member of the Young Academy of Norway. He completed his project Free Improvisation – Method and Genre: Artistic Research in Free Improvisation and Improvisation in Experimental Music through the Norwegian Artistic Research Fellowship Programme at NTNU, late October 2010. He has been involved in more than 70 recordings, and past collaborations include John Tilbury, Pauline Oliveros, Mats Gustafsson, George Lewis, AMM, Christian Wolff, Tony Conrad, Joëlle Léandre, amongst others.

Ellen J Røed
Professor and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Stockholm University of the Arts, SKH

Ellen J Røed is professor of film and media at Stockholm University of the Arts where she currently holds the position as Deputy Vice-Chancellor. Since 2004, Røed has taught at art universities and conducted artistic research and she has developed her artistic practice through an interdisciplinary approach where she explores the material and social conditions of moving images and how they operate performatively. She has worked to develop artistic research since 2012; especially on the board of The Norwegian Artistic Research Program and currently on ELIA's working group for artistic research.

Morten Schjelderup Wensberg
Chairman, The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (part of Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills)
 
Morten Schjelderup Wensberg is professor of conducting at the University of Stavanger (UiS), Faculty of performing arts. He is also associated with Talent Norway (“Talent Norge”) as leader of the Norwegian Conductors Program (“Dirigentløftet”). Wensberg was dean of the Faculty of performing arts at UiS 2018-2022 and served as leader of the National council for performing and creative music education in Universities Norway (“UHR Nasjonalt fagorgan for utøvende og skapende musikk”).