We Supervise to Find Comrades!

Cultural forms have been radically transformed by computation, but what of research itself? How do collaborative practices associated with computational culture challenge the production, circulation and supervision of research? Ethical practices associated with software development, such as the sharing of resources, modification of texts and re-versioning using git repositories, provoke an understanding of research publishing as not only a means for the dissemination of knowledge but as research object in itself.
Challenging Institutionalization explores the heterogeneous processes of PhD and postdoc supervision in the arts to formulate shared horizons.
The publication is structured around a series of lectures and conversations that took place at the 2023 Supervising Artistic and Practice-Based Research summer school at BAK (basis voor actuele kunst) in Utrecht. The school brought together students and PhD and postdoc supervisors to reflect on and challenge the existing formal educational pathways for artistic and practice-based research. Keynote propositions were provided by Barbara Bolt (Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne), Geoff Cox (London South Bank University), Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes (University of Amsterdam), Andrea Phillips (BxNU Institute), and Mick Wilson (HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design).