The second conference was titled “Aesthetic Practice and Aesthetic Insight” and was set Nov 9 – Nov 11, 2005.
Here we have collected the Programme, Call for Presentations and Call for Participation in PDF format:
Aesthetic Practice and Aesthetic Insight
The discussions at the first SK conference revealed, among other things, a conflict between what may be an Anglo-Saxon and a Continental understanding of concepts like “science”, “research and development”, and “knowledge” and their relevance for artistic R&D. The former seems to take its point of departure in the natural sciences, demanding strict methods and hoping for new, factual and generalizable knowledge, whereas the latter is inspired by the humanities, using hermeneutic methods and aiming at providing some kind of broader insight.
In the conference “Sensuous Knowledge 2″ (2005) the distinction between the two concepts will be treated in at least one key note speech within a context of both theory and history of both science and art. One plenary session will contain a couple of presentations with prepared comments, also introducing a rhetorical perspective on ways of discussing the various kinds of aesthetic insight that may be gathered from these examples of aesthetic practice. But the main feature of this second conference will again be the working groups where participants present their own artistic R&D and get prepared comments before all members of the group join in a general discussion.
