Artistic Research Summit 2025
Forging Creative Futures

Program
Presentations
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Event Program

Sydney Conservatorium of Music

Music Workshop

5th–7th September 2025

Friday 5th September

Introduction

Neal Peres Da Costa (on behalf of SCM Dean)

Welcome and Acknowledgement of Country

Jacinta Tobin

15:00

Setting the scene: Reports from the Music Sector

Liza Lim (USyd)-Chair USyd, Liam Viney (UQ), Arabella Teniswood-Harvey( UTas), Cat Hope (Monash), Jonathon Paget (ECU), Anna Goldsworthy (UA), Jane Davidson (UniMelb), Naomi Sunderland (Griffith), Alistair Noble (UNE), Roger Dean (WSU), Sonya Lifschitz (UNSW), Justin Harvey (UTS), Leah Barclay (USC)

15:30

Lightening updates from across the nation on how their institution is currently dealing with artistic research in music – counting outputs, benchmarking outputs, searchability of creative outputs, equivalency within their institution. In which ways are you thriving, and where are the challenges?

Musical Interlude #1 – Artistic Research in Practice

Peak Plastique: Vanessa Tomlinson, Anna McMichael, Erik Griswold (Griffith/Monash): access video, piano, vibraphone, drums

16:40

Afternoon Break

17:00

Hook Keynote Lecture

Professor Huib Schippers ICCS/Zhaoqing University

18:00

Drinks/Canapés SCM Atrium sponsored by SCM Hook Series

19:00

Saturday 6th September

Where we are Across the Creative Arts – Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Arts (DDCA)

Led by Craig Batty and Smiljana Glisovic

9:30

Music Interlude #2 – Artistic Research in Practice

SCM Bel Canto Project (ARC DP22): Anna Fraser (USyd), Claire Burrell-McDonald (Griffith) Neal Peres Da Costa (USyd)

Paul MacDermot Tekno Train

10:30

Morning Tea

11:10

Prosodic Music Panel #1: Doing Artistic Research

Louise Devenish (Monash)-Chair, Eve Klein (UQ), Ken Murray (UniMelb), Luke Harrald (Adelaide), Leah Barclay (USC), Toby Martin (USyd)

11:40

Artistic research has come into its own in the 20 years since 2005. While ERA may now be defunct, it has deeply influenced the position of creativity as the core of research in the creative arts. How are individual researchers doing artistic research in 2025?

Lunch

13:10

Music Panel #2: Assessing Music Research (Verification)

Cat Hope (Monash)-Chair; Jane Davidson (UniMelb), Naomi Sunderland (GU) Alistair Noble (UNE), Neal Peres Da Costa (USyd), Jonathan Paget (ECU)

14:10

This panel will begin to look at the mechanics of verifying artistic research – how we internally peer review research outputs within our institutions. The goal here is to find areas of best practice, and to find approaches that can support universities nation-wide. Do we want to, and how can we, streamline processes nationally?

Music Interlude #3 – Artistic Research in Practice

Dylan van der Schyff, Jess Green

15:25

Afternoon Tea

15:45

Music Panel #3: PhD Perspective Innovation and Experimentation

Dylan van der Schyff (Chair), Anna Fraser (USyd), Lindsay Vickery (ECU), Nardi Simpson (USyd), Roger Dean (WSU), Jonathan Paget (ECU)

16:25

Doctoral candidates have a minimum 3 years to deeply investigate an artistic research project. This provides an ideal platform for innovation and experimentation. How are we tracking these outcomes, collaborating with our candidates, and learning from this laboratory of exploration? What could best practice interface between candidates and supervisors look like in an artistic project? Or industry and candidates?

Drinks at local bar

17:40

Summit Dinner

18:45

Sunday 7th September

Music Panel #4: Toward National Parity, International Leadership (with DDCA)

Craig Batty (Chair), Liam Viney (UQ), Arabella Teniswood-Harvey (UTas), Cat Hope (Monash), Vanessa Tomlinson (Griffith), Sam Bennett (ANU)

9:30

There are many international organisations and networks working on the issue of artistic research, and many leading Australian academics play a role in these conversations. Could we flip the conversation and see how Australia could be the leading in artistic research? Could we host the next international conference, start a peer-reviewed journal, set the standard for creative PhD submissions, become the international benchmark of best practice?

Music Interlude #4 – Artistic Research in Practice

Sonya Lifschitz (UNSW), Ken Murray (UniMelb)

10:30

Morning Tea

11:10

Music Interlude #5

Jacinta Tobin (Independent) and Toby Martin (USyd)
Hearing the Music of Early NSW

11:40

Wrap-up session: Where are we Now? Next Steps. Creating a National Manifesto for Artistic Research in Music

Huib Schippers, Vanessa Tomlinson, Neal Peres Da Costa, Craig Batty

12:00

Co-Convenors Neal Peres de Costa, Vanessa Tomlinson and Huib Schippers, together with the entire cohort of attendees, will draw together the discussion from the past 2 days and focus on future action. This will be a collective working session