Ground Works is a platform for exemplary arts-inclusive research projects and reflection on the processes that drive interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Chat with the Editor
December 17, 2020
The Ground Works Managing Editor will be available for one-on-one mentoring and advice as part of the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (CELJ) Chat-with-an-Editor virtual event, Jan 6 3-4pm ES...
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Ground Works Seeks Submissions
November 19, 2020
a2ru Ground Works is now accepting project submissions on a rolling basis. We welcome submissions that integrate research and practice in the fine, performing, and applied arts and design with othe...
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Video from First Ground Works Live Event Is Now Available
November 16, 2020
Ground Works held its first live event as a virtual session in the a2ru national conference on October 28, 2020. In this session, entitled "Dear Arts Integration Community: A Letter of Inquiry from...
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Featured Articles
Choreografish is a participatory research project leveraging virtual reality, arts engagement, and design to collaborate with young adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). The research team was motivated by a combination of observations: that some people with ASD experience social anxiety and...
Choreografish: an arts-based, virtual reality, anxiety intervention for autism
Eric Handman, Roger Altizer, Cheryl Wright, and Greg Bayles
The Green Light SONATA project originated with a hunch in the engineering domain, but could only materialize through true collaboration of researchers working across disciplines. The project tested the hypothesis that translating simulated traffic information into music could lead to musical reso...
Green Light SONATA: Improvisation at the Intersection of Art and Science
Anne Elise Thomas, Montasir Abbas, Charles Nichols, and Qichao Wang
“Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork” was a two-year research project that explored the construction of identity through the act of singing. The heart of the project was a six-month laboratory period in which the three of us worked closely together, on a full-time basis, as skilled perfo...
Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork
Ben Spatz, Nazlıhan Eda Erçin, and Agnieszka Mendel
Recent Commentaries
Groundwork for Ground Works
Commentary on Cultural Engagements in Nutrition, Arts and Sciences (CENAS)
As early groundwork for Ground Works, a2ru invited submissions of interdisciplinary projects. Six of those projects played a seminal role in shaping the platform and helping to define the a2ru transdisciplinary space.
A Reflection on 'Machines that Dream'
Author commentary by Benjamin David Robert Bogart on Machines That Dream
My aim is not merely to make use of knowledge in cognitive neuroscience, but to contribute through the generative capacity of artistic practice. However, the work remains in limbo, unpublished in disciplinary contexts and merely summarized in interdisciplinary journals.