Material Inventions

Estelle Barrett recently retired from the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne, where she was Associate Professor and Deputy Head of School. In 2013, she was appointed to the position of Adjunct Research Professor at Charles Sturt University, New South Wales. Barbara Bolt is a practising artist and art theorist and is currently the Associate Director, Research and Research Training at the Victorian College of Arts, at the University of Melbourne. She exhibits with Catherine Asquith Gallery in Melbourne.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsForewordNotes on ContributorsIntroductionExtending the Field: Invention, Application and Innovation in Creative Arts EnquiryEstelle Barrett Chapter 1 Beyond Solipsism in Artistic Research: The Art Work and The Work of Art Barbara BoltChapter 2 Blogging as Art, Art as ResearchLucas IhleinChapter 3 “Conversations Before the End of Time”: Refuturing Applications of a New Media Praxis Keith Armstrong Chapter 4 Multimodal Research Applied to Decision Making by Incident Controllers on the Fire GroundValerie Ingham Chapter 5 Newspaper Printing Sites and The Spoils of Creative ResearchDeborah BeaumontChapter 6The Riches Of Ambiguity: Art as a Site for the Senses Jo-Anne DugganChapter 7 Real Fiction: Theatre and Creative Research Scott WelshChapter 8 Practice as Method: The Ex/centric Fixations Project Bree HadleyChapter 9 Poetic Documentary And Visual Anthropology: Evoking The SubjectCameron RoseChapter 10 Marking Exchange: Life-Drawing, Methexis and Intersubjective Praxis Margaret MayhewChapter 11 Making Sense: Exploring Materialist Pedagogies Through Imagination, Collaboration and CriticalityCarole Gray and Gordon BurnettChapter 12 The Effective and The Evocative: A Spectrum of Creative Practice Research Jillian Hamilton and Luke JaanisteChapter 13 The Mode of Invention of Creative ResearchIris van der TuinNotesReferences

Material Inventions is an essential intervention into the contemporary need to understand creative arts practice as research. It is instructive, enjoyable and yes, inventive. Lynn Turner, Senior Lecturer in Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.