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  • Issue 3, 2013
    • Computer Science Diagrams as Art Form, by Tosca Lahiri
    • The Archive is Present, by Joseph Dunne
    • Designing Identity: Sophie Taeuber, Dada, and the (re)Construction of the Fragmented Self, by Elizabeth Benjamin
    • Place and Collaboration: Contemporary Art Curation Within Historic Sites, by Ashleigh McDougall
  • Issue 2, 2012
    • A Trace From A Point...(Without Reference), by Robert Luzar
    • The Journey, The Makers, The Book, by James C. Cameron Silva
    • [Me] Writing On Others – Towards An Experiential Methodology For The Critical Encounter With Performance Practice, by Antje Hildebrandt
    • An Aesthetics of Capitalism: A Nietzschean Analysis of Baudrillard’s Theory of Consumption, by Ben Trubody
    • Going With the Flow: A Comparison of the Themes Within Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time and Joris-Karl Huysmans’ With the Flow, by Alexander Williams
  • Issue 1, 2011
    • Learning from Noor: Can Popular Culture Affect the Architectural Hermeneutics of a City? by Eray Çayli & Kerem Özcan
    • L’écriture féminine: an Alternative Space In-Between, by Jacqueline Taylor
    • Architecture for the Arts and the Importance of Space in the Public Realm, by Carol Cooper
    • Return Photography and Re-photography: Three Approaches, by Eva Bensasson
    • Sound as an Object in Space: Interpreting Space through Sound and Performance , by Tansy Spinks
    • Amateur ‘Worked’ Space: a Theory of How Amateurs Organize Their Practice, by Stephen Knott
    • Soundscape and Abstraction: Exploring the Relationship Between Environmental Sound and Language, by Marcus Leadley
    • Pictorially Abstract: The Illusion of The Real, by Simon Harris
    • Designing Identity: Sophie Taeuber, Dada, and the (re)Construction of the Fragmented Self, by Elizabeth Benjamin
    • Places in Space: How Multiple Places Can Coexist Within a Single Space Through Ambient Perception, by Lorenzo Beretta and Paul Bailey

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Issue 1, 2011

Welcome to the first issue of Desearch. A common question in the minds of the editors concerns the space that this new publication aims at occupying. In this respect, Desearch aspires towards contributing to the great tradition of art journals by providing a platform for researchers in their early carrier to publish their work and by extension engage in debates with the wider educational and professional creative community. Thus, before we enter a complex form of intellectual existentialism perhaps we should review the published papers and seriously consider their variable approaches to the question of ‘space’ on a variety of subjects and topics, which range from painting and photography to sound and popular culture.
 

Eva Bensasson’s Photography, Return and Rephotography: Three Approaches examines the role of space, or rather place, in connection to a notion of return and by extension traces the impact of site on collective forms of memory explored and established through the use of the photographic medium.
 

Carol Cooper’s Architecture for the Arts and the Importance of Space in the Public Realm, discusses the various employments of public space in the design of major art galleries. In a highly informative paper Cooper compares the social and cultural impact of public buildings whose design and purpose seem to be influenced by the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.
 

Jacqueline Taylor’s L’écriture féminine: an Alternative Space In-Between explores the “intertextual” and  “intermaterial” space in interdisciplinary and mixed media practices that combine text with painting from a feminist perspective. Interestingly, Taylor’s reading of feminist practices places more emphasis on femininity, a strategy, which she claims, aims to destabilize the masculine/feminine relation.
 

Çaylı Eray & Kerem Özcan’s Learning from Noor: Can popular culture affect the architectural hermeneutics of a city? provides a critical reflection on the cultural space that Turkey is increasingly occupying in the Arab world, through the broadcasting of a popular television series that focus on historical events drawn from the Ottoman era. In addition the authors analyse the impact of the market forces of the tourist industry, shaped by an increasing regional influence, on architectural space.
 

Lorenzo Beretta and Paul Bailey’s Places in Space: How Multiple Places Can Coexist Within a Single Space Through Ambient Perception discusses the ways by which ambient sounds influence our perception of space and, in return, questions the cultural specificities of this process. Central to their methodology is the perception of sound as a material, and their claim that sound needs to be acknowledged as such by designers and architects.
 

Stephen Knott’s essay Amateur ‘Worked’ Space: a Theory of How Amateurs Organise Their Practice looks at tools in an attempt to explore and subsequently analyse a notion of amateur space of labor.  In doing so, Knott looks into models of workshop organization propagated by DIY journals and manuals and examines the destabilizing impact of labour onto such idealized models.
 

Tansy Spinks’ essay Sound as an Object in Space: Interpreting Space through Sound and Performance treats sound as an object in space and explores the possible roles of the performer as a creative interpreter of spaces. Spinks’ preferred methodology is the Peircian semiotics adopted by Jean-Jacques Nattiez seminal work on musical semiotics.
 

Simon Harris' Pictorially Abstract: The Illusion of the Real discusses the theoretical and practical issues of contemporary pictorial space in response to a re-thinking of formalist modes of painting. Harris’ locates his arguments in a Deleuzean framework, dealing with concepts such as the ‘fold’ and the ‘haptic’ in order to explore notions of space within models of contemporary painting, previously defined through an opposition between figuration and abstraction.
 

Marcus Leadley’s Soundscape and Abstraction: Exploring the Relationship Between Environmental Sound and Language explores the relationship between environmental sound and linguistics. It particularly investigates the ways in which environmental acoustic factors influence the content, purpose and nuance of verbal communication today.

 

Finally, the editors of Desearch would like to thank the contributors of the first issue for presenting us with their highly interesting articles and thus reminding us that providing a space, where creativity and critical thinking can flourish, can be equally rewarding as to filling it.

 

The Editors
 

Issue 2, 2012

This second issue of Desearch continues the journal's mission to provide a platform able to encompass and support a wide range of postgraduate research interests. Thus, the articles included span the disparate fields of Continental Philosophy, Performance Art, Archive Studies, and Drawing.
 

 

Ben Trubody’s An Aesthetics of Capitalism: A Nietzschean Analysis of Baudrillard’s Theory of Consumption analyses from a socio-economic perspective Nietzsche’s ‘aesthetic of existence’ from the perspective of modes of reasoning as applied to Baudrillard’s ‘theory of consumption’ from The Consumer Society. In doing so, Trubody draws on the substitution of religion by the capitalist economic order as the absolute regulator of values.
 

Alexander Williams’ Going With The Flow: A Comparison of The Themes Within Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time and Joris-Karl Huysmans’ With the Flow offers an interesting epistemological connection between philosophy and literature by comparing the two texts in an attempt to show that they can both offer similar insights into the meaning of Being.
 

Antje Hildebrandt’s Writing on Others: Towards an Experiential Methodology For The Critical Encounter With Performance Practice explores the ways by which new forms of participation in performance art allow spectators to become active collaborators on a cognitive level, by contributing to the production of the work’s meaning.
 

James C. Cameron Silva’s The Journey, The Makers, The Book provides a critical reflection on the status of the codex (printed book) after the e-book. By problematizing the role of nostalgia in relation to materiality over a number of popular media formats (vinyl records, newspapers, etc.) and taking into account the writer’s approach to various forms of publication, Silva proposes a non-conflictual relationship between the two formats.
 

Robert Luzar’s A Trace From A Point Without Reference examines the potential influence of the reductive and restrictive notational properties of ‘period’ and ‘ellipsis’ in drawing, in connection to the ontology of ‘trace’ and the mechanics of gestural body movement.
 


 

Once again, the editors of Desearch would like to thank the contributors of the second issue for presenting us with their highly interesting and original articles, which allow our readers to engage with current debates in Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Culture.


 

The Editors
 

Issue 3, 2013

For our third issue we present another highly diverse collection of articles, both in terms of disciplinary breadth and contemporary relevance. The included articles offer interdisciplinary analyses in the fields of Curation and History, Philosophy of Mind and Art, Performance Art and Archival Studies, and Computer Science and Art.

 

Ashleigh McDougal’s Place and Collaboration: Contemporary Art Curation Within Historic Sites offers an analysis of the historic site as location for exhibitions for contemporary art and curatorial platform, in order to discern the underlying causes responsible for this movement out of the traditional 'white cube' gallery space.
 

Elizabeth Benjamin’s Designing Identity: Sophie Taeuber, Dada And The (Re)Construction Of The Fragmented Self investigates the construction of selfhood in Sophie Taeuber’s work, addressing the idea of the flexibility of the fragmented or hybrid image in relation to constructions of the self.
 

Jospeh Dune’s The Archive is Present interrogates the ways by which artists and scholars employ archival materials in order to compose the present as much as they preserve the past, thereby challenging notions of liveness and ephemerality. In doing so, the article argues that memory is an integral component of the performance event, whilst the consignment of its remains to the archive creates an enduring legacy for performance presence.
 

Tosca Lahiri’s Computer Science Diagrams As Art Form proposes computer science diagrams as a medium for discursive practice. The article examines and analyses the role of systems and diagrams in art in an attempt to reconcile the misconceived yet popular divide between art & science.

 

Once again, the editors of Desearch would like to thank the contributors of the third issue for presenting us with their highly ambitious and original articles, which allow our readers to engage with current debates in Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Culture.

 

The Editors

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