BCcampus webinar hosted February 27, 2024
Facilitator: Rachel Horst
Host: Gwen Nguyen

Arts-based research methodologies are increasingly used by social science researchers to extend traditional inquiry and representation across the life of a project. Although there is no exhaustive list of media used by arts-based researchers, traditional media such as painting, drawing, dance, and theatre have tended to dominate. In our technology-saturated world, digital tools and technologies are becoming more entangled with human being and knowing and provide an array of creative approaches to research inquiry and representation. Often associated with quantitative approaches to data, digital tools and new media artforms are prevalent in arts-based educational research. Digital arts-based research can help problematize the binary between quantitative and qualitative approaches to data and can be used to take up data itself as an artistic and expressive medium.

You do not need to be a professional artist to take up arts-based methods in research, just as you do not need to be a computer programmer to use digital arts-based methods in your work. In this session facilitator Rachel Horst will share tools and technologies for any researcher interested in how digital media have become part of existence, creative expression, and meaning-making. This presentation will examine how digital arts and aesthetics can be used at all stages of research and representation. You will take up digital arts-based approaches through a post-humanist and new materialist framework to understand creativity, relationality, and our post-digital experience in troubled times. You will be introduced to how digital arts-based tools and new media aesthetics can deepen and extend your research inquiries.

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