Background:
Art provides an outlet for many to express their feelings, emotions and life experiences under challenging conditions. We collected art-research works to answer the question how to best sustain life on earth under global, pandemic lock down conditions, while at the same time questioning conventional modes of presenting research evidence presented our research evidence.
Objectives:
Starting from a multimodal research perspective this poster outlines how art-research work can be analysed and stored as primary evidence, with respect to its performative character, as well as how sensory modalities such as vision and sound can be merged with speech and text in an evidence synthesis production.
Methods:
We propose three different analytical techniques preceding an integrative synthesis of art-research works; thematic analysis, iconographic analysis and art and design related analysis, as well as an online gallery to store primary artistic research evidence.
Results:
We argue that it is in the exercise of combining different analytical strategies that new synergies for integrative syntheses of dynamic art-research work are created. To prevent a loss of information, multimodal types of syntheses should consider the full range of visual, literary, sonic, tactile and multimodal dimensions of expression and adapt their extraction and presentation modus accordingly.
Conclusions:
Modes of representation can be adapted to the nature of artistic evidence, for instance through the concept of an online gallery in which visual, performative art-research evidence can be merged with narrative accounts of evidence to culminate in an original, multimodal, audio-visual production of an evidence synthesis.
Patient, public and/or healthcare consumer involvement:
The online evidence gallery and integrative, audio-visual synthesis are accessible on social media and via QR codes on the poster as part of our public outreach plan.