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    Photo of the hybrid organized conference ZFICTION on June 29, 2021. ยฉ Johannes Dietschi
    Photo of the hybrid organized conference ZFICTION on June 29, 2021. ยฉ Johannes Dietschi
    • Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact
    • Promotion of Talents and Careers
    • Cooperation and Internationality
    • External Funding
    • Event Highlight
    • Reading Tip
    • Award-Winning
    • Noteworthy

      ยซVoice, body and camera are as much ways and means of thinking as are pen, brush and language. What the microscope is to the scientist, the image is to the filmmaker doing artistic research, movement to the dancer, emotion to the actor. The good viruses were networking & supporting emerging artists and reseachers: Peers exchanging ideas with peers as a means of forging future knowledge.ยป

      Prof. Anton Rey, Head of the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film (IPF)
       

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          Scientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impact

          Volumes published in the subTexte series: 

          • No. 22 โ€“ Gardi Hutter: Trotz allem
          • No. 23 โ€“ Dr. Gunter Lรถsel, Prof. Dr. Martin Zimper: Handbuch Research Video. Filmen, Forschen, Annotieren.
          • No. 24 โ€“ Elna Matamoros: Dance and Costumes

          In 2021, the IPF held five international conferences, although some went ahead as hybrid events: 

          • The Art of Video (in) Research (January)
          • How to Act (June)
          • ZFICTION (29 June)
          • ZDOK (30 June โ€“ 1 July)
          • Limits of the Human (Oktober)

          โ†’ Overview ยซScientific, Artistic and Creative Output and Impactยป

            Promotion of Talents and Careers

            The IPF launched two PhD programmes (both funded by swissuniversities): ยซArts-based PhD Program in the Performing Arts, Music, and Filmยป and ยซTransdisciplinary Artistic PhD Program (TAP)ยป. Both programmes will intensify our cooperation with KUGraz, Konrad Wolf Film University of Potsdam, KU Linz and Uniarts Stockholm. 

            Our PreDoc Programme PEERS launched with six emerging researchers and has attracted great international attention.

            โ†’ Overwiew ยซPromotion of Talents and Careersยป

              Cooperation and Internationality

              The IPF signed a two-year cooperation programme with RESO, the Swiss Dance Network, for a study on ยซartistic residenciesยป.

              The 2021 Research Academy on ยซLivenessยป was held in August with none other than Dr. Philip Auslander and ten international participants.

              Liliana Heimberg's research project ยซThe immaterial heritage of the Lake Constance region: mobility, immobility and social changeยป, completed in 2021 and carried out by the ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences (project lead), the HTWG Konstanz, the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and the Vorarlberg State Conservatory (VLK), received great recognition and a wonderful, multimedia website ยซStoryMapsยป. The project was funded by the International Lake Constance University IBH.

              โ†’ Overview ยซCooperation and Internationalityยป

                External Funding

                Two projects by Dr. Gunter Lรถsel received funding from VW and Stiftung Niedersachsen. One is ยซThe Answering Machineยป, an interdisciplinary collaboration with TU Dresden (psychology), Stuttgart University (computational linguistics) and Tรผbingen University (media studies) on applied anthropomorphism, chatbots, AI and improvisational theatre. The other project, ยซANA โ€“ A multimodal empathic experience generation systemยป, is a cooperation with the GL quartet, Chris Ziegler, Ilja Mirsky and Leonid Berev.  

                โ†’ Overview ยซResearch Projectsยป

                  Event Highlight

                  ZDOK.21 ยซI hear something you donโ€™t seeยป (which explored soundtracks in documentary film) went ahead jointly with the feature film conference ZFICTION ยซThe Promise: Storytelling meets Virtual Productionยป, which was postponed due to Covid, and enjoyed great and downright liberating success. In future, ZFICTION will be held biennially, alternatingly with ZDOK, and in close collaboration with ZHdK Film Studies.

                    Reading Tip

                    Elna Matamorosโ€™ Dance & Costumes: A History of Dressing Movement (2021) has met with broad acclaim since its publication. For example, in her review in the FAZ, Wiebke Hรผster raved: ยซMatamoros provides a detailed and excellent account of the role of costumes in the history of danceยป. In the professional magazine Tanz, Dorion Weickmann observed: ยซMatamorosโ€™ study, which runs to almost 500 pages and is richly illustrated, is already a standard work โ€” a must-have for every bookshelf featuring books about danceยป.

                      Award-Winning

                      The IPF was also successful with a project submitted to the Rapid Action Call of the Digitisation Initiative of Zurich Universities (DIZH): ยซResearch Video in Modcast Formatยป is a ZHdK project by Dr. Gunter Lรถsel, Charlotte Axelsson and Dr. Thomas Schรคrer dedicated to transferring moving images, texts and other elements into an intuitively navigable and long-term stable publication form.

                        Noteworthy

                        Our SNSF submissions, aimed at advancing artistic research, were rejected by the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the National Research Council. The reasons given included insufficiently assured objectifiability and lacking connections with traditional methods. We will need to continue making our subject-specific, practice-based research questions even better understandable.

                          โ†’ More information on the Institute for the Performing Arts and Film