2021, Allen, Jamie

In the last two decades, many different proposals and concepts of artistic and art-based research have been developed and explored. Participatory Art Based Research (PABR) is one of them. Within the online event “Responses to Ways of Working Together”, experts and practitioners from the field of artistic research came together to discuss strategies, potentials and problems of PABR. Special guests Jamie Allen, Kai van Eikels, Anke Haarmann, Marijke Hoogenboom, Brandon LaBelle, and Isabelle Stengers were invited to respond to research formats that are documented on the online resource pab-research.de. Pab-research.de is the outcome of a two-year research process that evaluated and analysed 50 participatory research projects. Common characteristics of these projects were identified and extrapolated into research formats, that are now presented on the online resource to facilitate their transposition to and their use in other fields and contexts.

2017, Mareis, Claudia, Allen, Jamie, Langkilde, Kirsten

The contribution deals with ongoing research projects and methods being employed at the Academy of Art and Design’s Critical Media Lab and puts them into the context of current Media-Lab discussions such as the recently launched initiative “What’s a Media Lab” by Darren Wershler, Jussi Parikka and Lori Emerson, or the recently published book “New Laboratories” (De Gruyter 2016) by Charlotte Klonk of the BWG Cluster of Excellence in Berlin. These discourses at the interface of scholarly, scientific-technical and, above all, artistic research, focus, on the one hand, on situated practices and methods of experimentation and, on the other, address the hybridization and problematization of disciplinary and institutional knowledge and production spaces.

2020, Allen, Jamie, Greiner-Petter, Moritz

Dans leur conférence-performance, Jamie Allen et Moritz Greiner-Petter auscultent le "détecteur de mensonge", dispositif utilisé par les services de police et les assurances prétendument capable de décrypter dans le stress vocal les sentiments enfouis.

2014-06-01, Allen, Jamie

The essay and ideas included here is a discussion of the topics raised through CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, an artistic research and production residency that took place as part of the lead up to the transmediale festival, afterglow, 2014. The project’s initiation was about uncovering the resources and reserves of physical and material energies, signals and data that scaffold the very possibility of post-digital art-and-technology practices. Through a series of public workshops, and an installation project situated within the transmediale 2014 festival, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE’s ‘post-digitality’ is not only historical-temporal, but immediate, and dredged up from below, in the present. The artistic project stemming from research and public events through the project creates a media-archaeological site-survey, revealing data and depth of the present moment of an art and technology festival.

2020, Odunlami, Abbey, Allen, Jamie

In collaboration with conceptual artist and media-maker Abbéy Odunlami the workshop Food Spectacles: Seeing Power, Eating Culture takes up interests in artistic tactics for the redesign of urban metabolism, industrial agriculture and culinary cultures. We trace a history of food-art projects and trajectories that seek to change cultural norms and traditions, techniques and technologies of preparation, the design of spaces and places for eating, communications media, and other forms of metabolic meaning-making, narrative and poetry. The framing of the workshop critically examined Unesco’s SDG 11 (sustainable cities and communities). What relationships between foods, cultures and ecologies can be more explicit and so re-made? What are the intersections of politics and infrastructures that are created by the sourcing, preparation and consumption of what we eat? What are the conditions of food sourcing, cooking and eating in our globalized, hyperconnected, capital-driven world? Can we better understand how food cultures reflect and intervene in larger patterns of economic and ecological growth and crisis, such that we are better able to resist the "spectacle” of a contemporary mediascape that stylizes, glamorizes and alienates us from what we eat?