The Institute for Contemporary Art Research (IFCAR) supports researchers who are undertaking their PhDs in Fine Arts. It provides them with the necessary infrastructure, expertise, and an international research network to successfully complete a research project.
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Pre-doctoral Programme Transforming Environments
The programme, which has been running since September 2021, enables young artists, curators and artistic researchers to develop and carry out a practice-based PhD project at the Department of Fine Arts (DFA).
Transforming Environments is a peer group for artistic PhDs within the scope of the international collaboration partnerships managed by Dr. Marcel Bleuler. It positions artistic research in the context of urgent social issues and open questions which arise from the current living conditions. The participants’ projects concentrate on social, political or cultural challenges that require a change in thinking and action.
→ Current pre/doc projects
PhDs in research projects
IFCAR also systematically promotes the career of young researchers in the context of interdisciplinary projects. The Institute employs artists who are working on their PhDs as part of the research projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). For more information, please see “Latent Spaces”, “Listening to Data Flows. How Art and Biology Bring the Environment into the Computer” and “Contemporary Art, Popular Culture and Peacebuilding in Eastern Europe”.