Posts Tagged ‘Research’
Europe undermines Stephen Harper’s $1 billion bid for Arctic sovereignty
This weekend's Globe and Mail was filled with news about research, some with direct bearing on arts/culture.First, Doug Saunders, on the Globe's front page, trumpeted Canada's claim to arctic territory supported by a new Canadian produced arctic atlas compiled by the Geological Survey of Canada (in collaboration with Russia, the United [...]
Junk science
I don't know why I've never thought of using the term "junk science" instead of "self-interested research." Maybe it's because I never thought of arts research as science. It may also be because there is a difference between bad science, i.e. research done improperly, and research done properly but narrowly focused to produce results that bear [...]
New ideas drive new research
"If we have even a vague inkling of where things are going, we should see if we can flesh it out with observations, because then we start building the foundation for change..."I said that here, in the first of what has become this series of posts on research.A few days ago I received a fresh, new study called Visiting Art Museums which [...]
A national research strategy.
What Canada needs right now is to determine its research priorities and invest heavily in the kinds of research for which we will become known as world leaders. We cannot afford to be all things to all people, or to fall back on the "curiosity-driven" model of research, where you simply support your best researchers and let them go wherever their [...]
Not so suddenly… research.
It was wrong of me to suggest that research in the arts sector has been fatally tainted by self-interest, as I did in my last post. The problem is with the definition of self-interest. If a particular "self" has a problem that it needs addressed, then it helps if that "self" can demonstrate that the problem is real, show its dimensions, origins, [...]
What the people who work in artist-run centres know how to do.
Le Dictionnaire de compétences des travailleurs des centres d'artistes autogérés Publisher : RCAAQ Publication editor : Annie Gauthier French, 60 pages color, CD included, 2008 ISBN : 978-2-923021-03-4 $60.00 Does anyone really need read about how competent the people who work in artist-run centres are? Not really. Perhaps those who take [...]
