Dear Michael, dear Henk,

Concerning the themes: I would like to have the two topics “Assessment & Refereeing” and “Copyright” priorised. And I think formulating it as questions might be more clear. Here a proposal – what do you think?:

1) Assessment and Refereeing: What are in your opinion the quality criteria for artistic research? How should artistic research results be assessed?

2) Copyright: If you contribute to JAR, do you see any copyright problems with your material? Would you hesitate to publish your material (texts, pictures, sounds, films) in the research catalogue? Is there any material, that you would like to publish, but where copyright problems might arise?

3) JAR-Community: Issues on the formation of the Journal for Artistic Research

4) Higher Arts Education: What kind of Artistic Research Degrees would you want to see in the future? Do you know good examples of study programs and assessments in today’s education?

5) Digital Repositories: What kind of problems do you see in digital repositories for artistic research? Do you know good examples of repositories (including sound, moving images)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of indices in scientific and artistic research including the humanities?

6) Art World: What should be the relation between artistic research and the general art world? What are the influences?

All the best!

Florian