Thematic Section: “Arts, Sciences and Technologies: Intersections in Artistic research” (Vol. 3, issue 2)

2026-05-13

Guest editors: António de Sousa Dias and Fernando Rosa Dias

Deadline for submission of articles: 15th July 2026

Publication: 15th December 2026

The relationships between the arts, sciences and technologies have come to play an increasingly significant role in contemporary approaches to creation, experimentation and knowledge production. These relationships manifest themselves in various forms of intersection, transfer, cross-pollination and transmediality, involving processes, devices, methodologies, collaborations and presentation contexts that challenge strict disciplinary boundaries and call for hybrid modes of thought and practice.

This thematic section welcomes contributions on these intersections from the field of artistic research, leaning towards of forms of practice-based research, research through practice, and other forms of knowledge emerging from artistic practice. Preference is given to texts in which critical and conceptual reflection is developed in close relation to creative processes, artworks, devices, case studies or situated contexts of experimentation, understanding artistic practice not only as an object of analysis, but also as a site for the formulation, experimentation and production of knowledge, and favouring approaches in which theory and practice are explicitly and productively articulated.

Whilst the focus is on the arts, contributions from various fields of creation are also welcome, provided they consistently explore the relationships between the arts, sciences and technologies, particularly through practice, creative processes and specific contexts of experimentation.

 Possible themes:

  • intersections, transfers and cross-pollination between the arts, sciences and technologies;
  • forms of relationships between artistic creation, scientific thought and technological development;
  • artistic practices — including film, dance, music, theatre, visual arts and other forms of creation — in relation to science and technology;
  • methodologies of creation and collaborative processes between artists, scientists, engineers, programmers and other practitioners;
  • design of tools, interfaces, systems, instruments, devices and environments for artistic creation;
  • composition, performance, installation, media art, sound art, multimedia art and other interdisciplinary practices;
  • documentation of processes and the aesthetic, critical, epistemological, ethical and political implications of the relationships between the arts, sciences and technologies;
  • artistic research, practice-based research and other forms of knowledge emerging from practice.

Artist-researchers, researcher-artists and researchers from related fields are invited to submit original, unpublished full articles that contribute to the critical development of this field, whilst maintaining the centrality of artistic practices, creative processes and the forms of knowledge that emerge from them.

Submissions must comply with the journal’s editorial guidelines and be made via the Rhinocervs platform.

For instructions on how to submit, access the journal’s website:  https://journals.ipl.pt/rhinocervs/about/submissions