Practices of Experimentation

Research and Teaching in the Arts Today

Edited by the Department Art & Media, Zurich University of the Arts

Distributed for Verlag Scheidegger and Spiess

Edited by the Department Art & Media, Zurich University of the Arts

Compiled and with a Foreword by Christoph Brunner and Giaco Schiesser and Essays by Ute Meta Bauer, Maria Eichhorn, Knowbotic Research, Jörg Huber, Marianne Müller, Gerald Raunig, Nils Röller, Richard Wentworth.

304 pages | 80 color plates, 80 halftones, 1 DVD | 9 x 11

Verlag Scheidegger & Spiess-Zurich University of the Arts Yearbook

Cloth w/ DVD $60.00 ISBN: 9783858812599 Will Publish June 2012 Not for sale in the United Kingdom or Europe

At the Department of Art and Media at Zürich University, which comprises the undergraduate specializations of fine arts, photography, media arts, and theory along with a masters program anchored by two research institutes, experimentation lies at the heart of creative research and teaching. The 2012 yearbook of the department explores how practices of experimentation are implemented in one of the most renowned arts departments worldwide and investigates how the various fields—of teaching, research, theory, and practice—interlace with, inspire, and inform one another.

Through fifteen works in text, image, video, and sound by theorists and artists inside and outside the department, this work considers how practices of experimentation unfold and how they affect artistic creation, the relationship between art schools and society, the production of knowledge, and the particularities of inter- and trans-disciplinary teaching and research in the arts.