Research Video
Annotated videos as a new standard of publishing practice-based and artistic research
RESEARCH VIDEO offers a solution for the publication of performative knowledge, a fundamental problem in artistic research in the performing arts and corresponding fields (in the following we will use the term artistic research as an umbrella term for a number of related terms like practice-based research, practice led research, art as research a.o.). It aims to set a new standard that suits both the needs of the academic and the artistic communities, to provide a theoretical framework for enriched publications and to optimize a video-tool for the presentation of practice-based knowledge. Our main focus will be on the temporal arts (theater, dance and performance), but we will also generate a use-case in visual anthropology to facilitate transfer to other disciplines and a broader impact. In the artistic research community, the problems of publication have been debated for several years with a growing consensus, that some academic conventions are applicable, in particular the criteria of citability, sharability and challengeability. So a theoretical framework is emerging, but needs to be concretized. On a practical side, video technology provides new possibilities for exposing performative knowledge. In the academic field, video annotation constitutes a key technology generating study materials for various fields in which digital annotation tools now support documentation, data-aquisition and data-analysis of behavioral studies in Psychology, Social sciences and Ethnography. However, these tools and procedures of annotation have not been optimized for publication. So a specialized tool is needed as well as a theoretical framework.
