IAMCR session at ECREA 2021

A Roundtable on Arts-based Research in Communication and Media Studies: Strategies and Experiences

Invited by the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), IAMCR is organising a roundtable panel for the 8th ECREA European Communication Conference to be held from 6 to 9 September 2021, as a live virtual event. IAMCR members attending the ECREA online conference are cordially invited to join us at this special session.

The session will take place Thursday 9 September from 09h00 to 10h30 CEST (UTC+2) in Room 24. Session code SPC01.

For further information, visit the conference website.

Panel abstract

Arts-based Research (ABR) is a series of methods and strategies that combines academic and artistic research repertoires, allowing to enrich the more traditional forms of knowledge production (and communication) that are still dominant in Communication and Media Studies. This roundtable panel brings together a group of authors who have used ABR, in a variety of capacities, and who will discuss their experiences with ABR, touching upon the opportunities for expanding knowledge production, for hybridizing academic identities and for expanding academic publics, without blindly celebrating ABR and ignoring its limitations.

Convenor: Nico Carpentier, IAMCR President

Presentations and speakers:

Introduction: Strategies of Arts-Based Research in Communication and Media Research: A Critical Evaluation
Nico Carpentier (Charles University) and Johanna Sumiala (University of Helsinki)

Using an artistic technique to signify a concept
Vaia Doudaki (Charles University)

Digital Ethnographer on the Move – An Unexpected Proposal?
Johanna Sumiala (University of Helsinki)

Who is entitled to speak? Unsilencing strategies in animal-human relations
Nico Carpentier (Charles University) 

Hybridity of transmediality: the art-based research and forms of expression in media studies
Polina Golovátina-Mora (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), with Hernando Blandon Gomez (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana)

Making museum exhibition from the perspective of arts based (media) research
Pille Pruulmann Vengerfeldt (Malmö University), with Pille Runnel (Estonian National Museum)

Visual Art as form of participatory memory in urban regeneration project
Emanuele Meschini (University of Bologna)

The oppression of creativity and its resistances
Christopher Alan Bratton (Aalto University), with Dalida Maria Benfield (Center for Arts, Design, and Social Research)