Abstract
This chapter presents one important stage in that chain of transformations: the material passage from the documentation of artistic practice to the publication of research. It draws on B. Latour’s work on reference, combining it with insights from the Social Construction of Technology (SCOT) programme on the closure of controversies. In 2010, when the institutional anchoring of artistic research in higher education and research was already some ten to twenty years on its way artists were increasingly feeling the need for an adequate platform for publishing outcomes of this kind of research. The chapter describes how the Research Catalogue (RC) operates in the chain that connects artworks and artistic practices with academic publication and evaluation and how this can be illuminated from the perspective of the SCOT programme. The introduction of the beta version of the responsive text editor in 2018 coincided with a yet ongoing discussion within the core RC community.
Num Pages: 12