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About the ARN
The Arts Research Network (ARN) seeks to create links between arts practice & academic research
The Strand Report (1998) noted that creative arts academics employed as artists achieve fewer research outcomes compared with historians or theorists of the arts.
The time other academics might devote to research and publishing was time the creative artists practised their discipline. Little time was left for additional research and publishing as expected by many institutions.
In recognition of this dilemma, The Strand Report recommended the introduction of a 'research equivalence' category to recognise creative output.
Some Universities developed a Creative and Performing Arts Index (CPAI), but this has not been mirrored by changes in research funding allocation.
Although the arts/science juncture is recognised - for example in the Clash of Cultures (1999) report celebrating achievements of the new Media Arts Fund, and the launch of the ARC/Australia Council Synapse project (2003) - tensions remain between 'academic research' and 'creative and performing arts research'.
Aspects of this issue were addressed at the AARE mini-conference on 'Defining the Doctorate - including Doctoral Study in the Creative and Performing Arts'.
The Arts Research Network seeks to build on the arts/science advances, and the AARE discussions by identifying a synergy between arts practice and 'academic research' to mirror that being explored between art and science/technology.
Network Channels
Theorists and practitioners will come together to explore combined approaches and paradigms for arts research.
A web site will be developed to provide a forum where ARN members can interact and explore ways to traverse the theory/practice divide.
Benefits
ARN members will have access to creative artists, cultural theorists and researchers who can: inform projects by drawing from their own experiences, provide mentorship, suggest new avenues of exploration & practice, draw from a wide pool of talented international connections.
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