📌 Save the date for a DARIAH-IE Networking Day hosting the UK-IE Digital Humanities Association’s Regional Meeting
📆 March 4th, 2027 | 📍 Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin | 🕰️ 10:30 – 16:00
Save the date for a national event bringing together practitioners, researchers and academics working in digital arts and digital humanities across Ireland.
Hosted by DARIAH-IE, Ireland’s national node of DARIAH the pan-European Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities, the day will also see the first meeting of the UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association (UK-IE DHA) Regional Event Series.
This jointly organised event will bring together a broad range of stakeholders, reflecting the strength of collaboration between the DARIAH-IE infrastructure and the UK-IE DH Association.
The day is designed to:
Introduce the affordances of engagement with DARIAH-IE and the UK-IE DHA
Provide the opportunity to talk to – and hear from – colleagues across the island
Invite discussions on training needs, collaborations and events
Whether you are new to digital arts and humanities or already active in the field, this is a chance to connect with colleagues from across the island and help shape the future of both DARIAH-IE and the UK-IE DHA.
Full programme and registration details to follow, provisional timelines below:
October 20th, 2026 – Call for Papers and Provocations opens
November 27th, 2026 – CfP closes
December – Programme announced
January 11th, 2026 – Registration opens
February 11th, 2026 – Registration closes
A bursary call will also be announced in the coming months.
According to Richard Dawkins, “There’s real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality”. So why are art and science sometimes considered as two separate fields, rather than two different sides of the same coin? And who says that scientists, engineers, and medical researchers take interest only in matters within the boundaries of the laboratories and hospitals? How might the perspective of art provide fresh avenues for understanding and contribute significantly to the enrichment of scientific knowledge? For poets, writers, and artists there are no such boundaries, for there is poetic wisdom in scientific knowledge, beauty in anatomy, and concepts worth celebrating in writing. And for biographers and memoirists, the medical humanities offer experiences that are worth preserving in prose. Our forthcoming conference seeks to deconstruct the common divide between two seemingly distinct disciplines of art and science, building bridges instead of boundaries, and showing the importance of creatively contemplating, cherishing, and preserving the beauty of what we learn and experience.
This conference, therefore, aims to bring together scholars, creatives, and other arts-based researchers from different disciplines working on topics related to transdisciplinarity, with a focus on the bridging of science with the arts. You may be a scientist or a medical practitioner who writes poems and stories or takes on another art (such as music, sculpture, the visual arts, etc.) or alternatively, you may be a creative inspired by science, or a practioner in a field that utilises creative approaches for scientific purposes—so the intertwining of your thoughts, ideas, and creativity are welcome, and we can’t wait to hear about your work that combines your creativity with science!
Send us your proposals by August 31st. Presenters can either share academic papers and/or creative work (poetry, prose, photography, music, painting, etc.), as we highly encourage arts-based research. We welcome proposals from scholars (of all disciplines), creatives, graduate students, practitioners and professionals.
So whether you are working on research bridging art with creativity, or you have a piece containing astronomical images, eco-poetry, aesthetic reflections on chemicals and substances, lunar photography, artistic depictions of the human body, alchemical musings, art and arithmetic, psychological fiction (or non-fiction), an ode to omicron, or any other creative pieces arising from “scientific” inspiration, please share them with us!
We welcome 15-minute presentations on topics related (but certainly not limited to) the following fields:
Fiction as a mode for knowledge
Transdisciplinarity in its various forms
Music-based practices
A/r/tography
Physics as an inspiration in literature
Chemistry and the culinary, literary or visual arts
Astrophotography
Alchemy as an art and science
Psychology and the arts
Symbolic healing
Ecopoetics
Anatomy in painting
The medical humanities
Poetry and medicine
Photography and medical technology
Ruminations based on scientific theories
Space poetry
Art therapy
Music and mathematical formulas
Viruses and philosophy
The human body
Mental illness and the arts
Quantum physics and artistic expression
Technological advancements and their impact on artistic creation
Mathematical patterns in visual arts
Neuroscience and creativity
Climate change and environmental art
Data visualization as an art form
Ethical considerations in scientific art collaborations
Evolutionary biology and literature
Augmented reality and immersive storytelling
Artificial intelligence and its role in creative processes
Bioart and biotechnology in artistic practice
Intersection of robotics and performance art
Astronomy and music composition
Psychology of color in visual arts
Medical imaging techniques and artistic interpretation
Intersection of archaeology and art history
Cognitive science and theater/performance studies
Genetics and contemporary art practices
Philosophy of science and its influence on artistic discourse
Ecological activism through artistic interventions
Anthropology and the representation of cultures in art
Social sciences and documentary photography
Nanotechnology and its implications for artistic materials
Ethnomusicology and cultural expressions of scientific knowledge
Artistic Research and the Lingering Gaze of Thought by Henk Borgdorff
Artistic Research and the Lingering Gaze of Thought, by Henk Borgdorff, is the text of a talk delivered at the 17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR) in Galway. Borgdorff argues that artistic research should be understood not as opposed to academia but as a cutting-edge form of it, pointing to Australia’s recent recommendation to retire the term “Non-Traditional Research Output.” He surveys what distinguishes artistic research—its engagement with practices and material things, its grounding in experimentation, participation and interpretation next to its methodological pluralism, and its relation to 4E-cognition (embodied, embedded, extended, enactive)—while sharing common ground with fields like visual anthropology and science and technology studies. The heart of the piece is a proposal to rethink “discursivity” beyond language, treating material configurations of sound, image, movement and gesture as forms of rigorous, non-propositional reasoning.
Henk Borgdorff is emeritus professor of Research in the Arts at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA), Leiden University and the Royal Conservatoire, University of the Arts, The Hague. Borgdorff has published widely on the theoretical and political rationale of research in the arts.
The Journal for Artistic Research (JAR) is an international, online, open-access and peer-reviewed journal that disseminates artistic research from all disciplines. Its Network space provides a forum for JAR readers to share unreviewed contributions including reflections and book reviews, while also housing the JAR network channels.
Role 1: Research Fellow in Digital Musical Instrument Design Planning and facilitating musical instrument co-design activities with disabled and non-disabled participants, and exploring a range of methods for prototyping surfaces, objects, and mechanisms for music interaction. People with expertise in music, product design, HCI, and/or disability studies are encouraged to apply. See: https://go.uwe.ac.uk/dmiDesign
Role 2: Research Fellow in Algorithmic Sensing for Music Creating algorithms for detecting nuanced musical interactions in real time using hand-worn wearable technology. People with expertise in signal processing and/or machine learning are encouraged to apply. See: https://go.uwe.ac.uk/algoSense
For more details on the roles, and to apply, please visit https://micalab.org. Applications close 6th August 2026, with interviews expected to take place in the week commencing 31st August 2026.
We are pleased to say that due to exceptional demand, we are extending the deadline to submit an abstract for the 2026 MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Conference, which will take place on 9th September 2026 in the Minghella Studios, University of Reading. The new deadline is Monday 25th May 2026.
This year’s theme is Media and Sustainability and invites postgraduate researchers to explore how media industries, forms, cultures, and research practices endure, adapt, resist or reimagine themselves within unstable or emerging environments. We also encourage reflection on the sustainability of academic and creative labour, and the infrastructures that support media work.
Participants are encouraged to interpret the conference theme broadly and creatively. Submissions from interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary perspectives are warmly welcomed, including practice-based work.
Possible areas of interest include, but are not limited to:
Sustainable media industries: policy, production cultures, funding, and independent practice.
Sustainable creative and research methodologies: slow scholarship, decolonial and feminist methods, ethics of care, collaboration and community partnership.
Environmental sustainability and media: climate communication, ecocinema, eco-media, green production, and environmental representation.
Sustainable archives and preservation: memory, heritage, obsolescence, and care for audiovisual materials.
Sustainable digital technologies and infrastructures: platforms, AI, media infrastructure, resource extraction, and the environmental costs of data.
Sustainable identities and communities: queer, Indigenous, diasporic, and disabled media-making. Visibility, survival, and continuity.
Sustaining the self: wellbeing, burnout, emotional labour, and the lived realities of postgraduate research.
In recognition of the diverse ways postgraduate researchers work and communicate research, we invite proposals in a range of formats, including:
Paper presentations (15 minutes)
Panel proposals (typically 3-5 named contributors)
Practice-based or creative contributions, including film, audiovisual work, performance or artistic practice
We particularly welcome work-in-progress and contributions from early-stage postgraduate researchers.
Submission deadline: Monday 25th May 2026 at midday (GMT)
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