KABK launches portal page on the Research Catalogue

The RC is an international open-access platform for publishing and archiving artistic research, provided by the Society for Artistic Research. Unlike traditional formats, the RC enables users to present research through a rich mix of media - including video, audio, and images - in interactive layouts that reflect the embodied and process-based nature of artistic practice.

The KABK RC portal page provides access to documentation on artistic research carried out by students, doctoral candidates, teachers and alumni. It offers an internal tool for exploration and teaching.

For several years, KABK has been working to build a digital thesis archive in the RC. All theses written from now on will be included. Graduating students are instructed (via their departments) to upload their own theses to the RC, either as PDFs or by using the RC’s flexible publishing tools. To support this process, KABK RC portal manager Sandipan Nath is available to assist students and staff. He also offers RC workshops, which can be requested by (theory) teachers, for example, as part of (first year) research skills courses.

With this portal page, KABK not only improves the visibility and accessibility of its thesis archive but also strengthens its research infrastructure in line with international developments in (artistic) research. All public RC publications by researchers and students from ACPA, KC, and (soon) also KABK are searchable via researchplatform.art, the website of the Platform for Art Research in Collaboration (PARC).

The development of the KABK RC Portal page and thesis archive was made possible through the close collaboration of Sandipan Nath (KABK RC portal manager), Casper Schipper (KC RC portal manager), Annemarie van den Berg and Marcel van Bommel of the KABK library, the KABK Theory Platform, and Emily Huurdeman and Anke Haarman (respectively former coordinator and former lector of the KABK lectorate Art Theory & Practice).