For any further questions regarding the 12th SAR conference 2021, please contact sar2021vienna@mdw.ac.at.
Society for Artistic Research and mdw—University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in cooperation with the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
Conference Committee
Conference Management
Society for Artistic Research
The Society for Artistic Research (SAR) is a non-profit organization that nurtures, connects and disseminates artistic research as specific practices of creating knowledge and insight. SAR facilitates a range of encounters for its community of artistic practitioners in the pursuit of transformative understanding that impacts on political and societal processes as well as on cultures of research and learning.
mdw—University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
The mdw—University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna defines itself as an excellence-oriented place of training for artists, educators, and researchers. The diversity of the fields covered and methods employed here makes it possible to combine these to develop new perspectives and opportunities as an answer to social, economic, and political challenges in the European and global contexts.
Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
The Academy of Fine Arts Vienna has been a leading European training center for artists for more than 300 years. As a university, the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna is especially dedicated to teaching processes based on research and art alike, i.e. on scientific and artistic research, the findings of which are integrated into the curricula in different ways and communicated to a wider public through exhibitions, symposia, lectures and a publication series.
University of Applied Arts Vienna
As a leading center of excellence in art and research, the Angewandte is recognized nationally and internationally. Through its actions the Angewandte provides effective impulses in the shaping of society. The Angewandte makes key contributions to strengthening Austria as an innovation hub. At the Angewandte, difference—contentual, methodical, cultural—is seen as a challenge and an opportunity for engaging in constructive-critical interaction.