Research permits for the 2024-2025 school year have been allocated

Research permits for the 2024-2025 school year have been allocated

Three licences for the 2024 -2025 academic year have been allocated to the academic staff of the Academy of Arts.

Bjarki Bragason, associate professor and president of the art department received a research permit in the fall semester of 2024. he intends to devote the permit to work on the final part of a large-scale research project, Three thousand nine years, which started in 2009. Bjarki tells about his project:

„The project Three thousand nine years is an art study that revolves around questions about time and how geohistorical time and human time overlap in the human age, the period in which the person is a geological force Since 2009, I have observed my grandparents“ courtyard transition from an organized and cultivated place to a wild vegetation, in a place that is not maintained In the project, the development of the vegetation has been explored over a period of 14 years and a variety of works done for private and group exhibitions, publications, talks and more where questions about how a place changes and how memory is written into the environment through an examination of the vegetation and man-made environment The next step in the project is the creation of a work of art in a public space where all the minerals from the garden will be used and it will be moved out of place Simultaneously, a book is being worked on in collaboration with ASÍ's Art Museum about the project as a whole, which will be published when the work has been completed.“

Atli Ingólfsson, professor and professional director of composition at MA level í music department received a research permit to develop a new project with the working title Kashif's notes. Will it be either semester He describes his study in this way:

„Kashif's notes is the study of the intermediate stages of written and improvised music and the attempt to exploit the advantages of both in the special form in which compositions would be made“ The research consists of composing and studying the first examples, but at a later stage the intention is for more authors and a diverse group of performers to test the format project should yield several compositions while also sharing will include written articles about the research and will be discussed within the Academy of Arts “

Johannes Dagsson, associate professor and head of studies in the Faculty of Fine Arts received a research permit in the spring semester of 2025 to examine and analyze the characteristics of the methodology of art research He then reports on the project:

„The project consists in using the methodology of philosophy to analyze and clarify a certain characteristic of the methodology of art research" Art research is often defined based on a research concept where the structure, methodology and internal consistency of the research is specific to each study (even each work) individually. This differs from other knowledge subjects, where certain methods, approaches and presentations are standardized or general, either over many studies, or over entire fields of study. This has the consequences that the relationship between individual art research, with the field of study in which it takes place within but diverse and flexible, and also that certain criteria that are often used to evaluate and communicate the results of research, are less relevant, or not at all, when it comes to art research projects, focuses on clarifying and analyzing what is involved in this specific relationship that art research has with existing knowledge within academic fields, and how research processes and the concept are affected by this specific definition of knowledge through the field of knowledge that it becomes possible to clarify and the field of knowledge.

The estimated result of the project is a theoretical article, intended for publication on a peer-reviewed and recognized professional platform, a visual article, and a course description based on the project.“

Research permits are 85 working days or about 17 weeks According to the school's rules, the formal conditions for granting a research permit are that the employee has defined a research rate within the employment contract, has fulfilled his professional duties under that contract, and can demonstrate effectiveness in research at the start of the research permit. The projects carried out must be in the special field for which the employee is employed at the school and lead to communication at the public level.
The Professional Council Research Committee evaluates applications and makes a proposal for their prioritization based on professional criteria for the value of a project for the field of study of the arts, the clarity of the research plan, the feasibility of the project and timetable and the plan for dissemination, as well as with regard to the formal conditions of the Rector granting a research permit.

For the current school year, permits were allocated to Gunndís Ýrar Finnbogadóttir, the art education department, Þorbjargar Daphne Hall, the music department and Lóa Auðunsdóttir, the design department.

We wish Bjarka, Atla and Jóhannes the best of luck with the allocation and look forward to hearing more about the results of the research later.