ArtMonitor Working Papers
ArtMonitor is the imprint of the Artistic Faculty with the primary purpose of publishing the Faculty鈥檚 Licentiate and Doctoral dissertations. Additionally, it has two ancillary purposes: (i) to publish books emerging from the Faculty鈥檚 research activities; and (ii) to publish working papers that emerge from the education and research activities of the Faculty鈥檚 academic community.
The working papers series is a pilot initiative for the Academic cycle 2023-2024. Working papers emerge from the education and research activities of the Artistic Faculty鈥檚 academic community. A working paper functions as a preliminary articulation of ideas and may be considered as a speculative exercise in outlining a possible direction for future work or an emerging response to wider debates. The ideas rehearsed in a working paper may be subsequently developed as formal publications through peer review journal or book chapter or book or other dissemination formats. It is a device to enable ideas to be discussed beforefinalized formal external publication. Working papers are typically available in both Swedish and English versions.
If you would like to contribute a working paper, please contact: Prof. Mick Wilson (HDK-Valand) and Dr.
Working Papers
5 鈥淥n the question of Ideology鈥 Prof. Dave Beech, UAL (forthcoming)
4 鈥淭he LTH Fountain and the anti-normal condition鈥 Dr. Cathryn Klasto (2023)
Remembering my first impression of the LTH Fountain as a kind of lonely cybernetic monster, I consider the ways in which it functions as monstrous structure-space through its capacity to produce the condition of the anti-normal. (Fourth in a series emerging from the research project 鈥淭he fountain: An art-technological-social drama鈥 2021-2024.
3 "Fail Your Rubblish Art!" Prof. Mick Wilson (2023)
A short text providing a preliminary treatment of varieties of failure in the context of the debate on then perceived failures of a major public art work. (Third in a series emerging from the research project 鈥淭he fountain: An art-technological-social drama鈥 2021-2024.
2 鈥淭homasson on campus?鈥 Prof. Lars-Henrik St氓hl, Lund University (2023)
In this text, some issues are discussed regarding the LTH Fountain and Hyperart Thomasson, which also form the starting points for an upcoming video, with the working title Thomasson on campus? (Second in a series emerging from the research project 鈥The fountain: An art-technological-social drama鈥 2021-2024.
1 鈥淭he monstrous Fontana di Tr盲ti鈥 Dr. Maddie Leach (2023)
Commissioned in 1967 for the campus of Lund University鈥檚 Faculty of Engineering, the LTH Fountain has a more than 50-year history of technical failure, furious social debate, and abandonment. This text reflects on two photographs, taken a decade apart, for the purpose of briefly unfolding the story of the LTH Fountain as an object of love and loathing. (First in a series emerging from the research project 鈥淭he fountain: An art-technological-social drama鈥 2021-2024.