SAR Annual Meeting and General Assembly
Place: Hochschule der Künste Bern, Fellerstrasse 11, CH-3027 Bern
Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please email Martin Christ [y@hkb.bfh.ch] your details.
Additional material will be send later. Travel information can be found at: http://www.jar-online.net/newsletter/20101217/JAR_Accommodation_Bern.pdf
Like last year, we were successful in securing funding to support non-instutional artists and researchers who want to attend the meeting. If you want to apply for a travel grant, please contact florian.dombois@jar-online.net
| 13:00-13:30 | Welcome (with coffee and croissant) |
| 13:30-13:45 | Introduction An overview of the programme by Michael Schwab and Florian Dombois |
| 13:45-14:15 | General Assembly 1: Society's Reports Reports on developments and activities including: Editorial Board (Michael Schwab), Executive Board (Florian Dombois), Finances (Anna Lindal) |
| 14:15-15:15 | Launching the Research Catalogue An introduction to the database and editing software supporting JAR and the plans for its official release (Michael Schwab). |
| 15:15-15:45 | Coffee Break |
| 15:45-16:45 | Tuija Kokkonen Keynote Lecture and discussion; TK will talk about her experiences in writing for JAR and the advantages and disadvantages of this mode of online publication |
| 16:45-17:00 | Coffee Break |
| 17:00-18:00 | Workshops 1 (on JAR) Working groups will be formed to discuss crucial aspects of the journal: 1. Reviewing Process (chair: Henk Borgdorff) 2. Exposition Writing (chair: Barnaby Drabble) 3. RC software as medium (chair: Florian Dombois) 4. Exposition Design (chair: Claudia Mareis) |
| 18:00-19:00 | Presenting the Nominees for the next Executive Board (chair: Darla Crispin) |
| 19:00 | End |
| 20:00-... | Dinner / JAR Launch Night |
| 09:30-10:00 | Welcome (with coffee and croissant) |
| 10:00-10:45 | JAR live (chair: Martin Burr and Julian Klein) Ideas and plans for "tangible" versions of JAR will be presented and discussed. |
| 10:45-11:30 | Sustaining JAR (chair: Stephen Scrivener) How can JAR be sustained financially? What are the costs of the journal? What is the right business model for JAR?, etc. |
| 11:30-12:00 | Coffee Break |
| 12:00-13:00 | Workshops 2 (on SAR) Working groups will be formed to discuss crucial aspects of the journal: 1. Future plans and projects (chair: Anna Lindal) 2. Acquiring members and funding (chair: Stephen Scrivener) 3. Networking JAR (Chair: Sofie van Loo) 4. RC Portals and alternative Journals (chair: Michael Schwab) 5. Transdisciplinarity and cultural diversity (chair: Florian Dombois) |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00-14:45 | General Assembly 2: Voting on proposed changes to articles and by-laws (see attachment 1 & 2) Elections of the Executive Board 2011-2013 (for a list of nominees see attachment 3) |
| 14:45-15:30 | Open Mic |
| 15:30-16:00 | Close |
| 16:00-17:00 | Meeting of the newly elected Executive Board: Next Steps The newly elected Executive Board will meeting to review progress and prepare the way forward. |
Please note that the ARC-research project led by Michael Schwab and Henk Borgdorff will hold a meeting, which is open to the public, with demonstrations and discussions around expositions and the Research Catalogue software before the SAR meeting.
| 13:00-14:00 | Introduction (chair: Michael Schwab & Henk Borgdorff) |
| 14.00-15.00 | A Tour of the Research Catalogue (RC) Technology (chair: Tabea Lurk) |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break |
| 15:30-16:30 | RC Technology - Questions from the developers and from the researchers (chair: Tabea Lurk) |
| 16:30-17:30 | Presentation of 3 ARC projects (chair: Henk Borgdorff) |
| From 19:00 | Dinner (only for ARC members) |
| 09:00-11:00 | RC Hands-on Workshop (non-ARC related visitors are required to book by emailing Tamara de Groot: T.deGroot@kabk.nl and are also asked to bring samples of their research) |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee Break |
| 11:30-12:30 | Discussion: RC requirements (chair: Michael Schwab) |
| 12:30-13:00 | Next Steps |
This timetable can be downloaded here: www.jar-online.net/newsletter/20110125/Program-SAR-2011-AnnualMeeting.pdf
Looking forward to see hopefully lots of you in Berne!
Florian Dombois florian.dombois@jar-online.net
President, Society for Artistic Research
Michael Schwab michael.schwab@jar-online.net
Editor in Chief
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