Research Information System
ANADOLU UNIVERSITESI SANAT & TASARIM DERGISI-ANADOLU UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN, vol.11, no.1, pp.248-258, 2021 (ESCI)
Recent debates on art education focus on an agenda that questions the position of arts education within the university structure (Borgdorff, 2012; Busch, 2009; Elkins, 2009; Slager, 2012). In this context, the concept of artistic research proposes an experimental and process-oriented practice, within a university model with limited ideas on knowledge production and transfer of this knowledge. Today, the concept of research becomes one of the focal points of an epistemological transformation (Latour, 1998), while the relative ease of accessing information triggers questions about the function of the university as a medium that provides experience and knowledge transfer. The excessive proliferation of information leads to undermining the access to knowledge and to determine the process of classifying, analyzing, and laying the groundwork for new imaginations as the dominant skills. The concept of research becomes crucial with its emphasis on the flow of thought rather than finite knowledge, and the experimental process that is integrated with its object. Within this epistemological transformation, this review article aims to reflect on the particular mode of thinking relevant in artistic production, which is open to experience and experimentation. In this framework, it discusses artistic thinking, which is traditionally excluded from the scientific knowledge field due to its intuitive, emotional and sensational nature. Within this context, the paper aims to examine the potentials of experimental practice and material thinking within the language of art.