Orpheus Instituut: Bodies as Transducers
Artistic research operates at the intersection of bodies, materials, and concepts. From this perspective, musical performance appears as an intense transductive process through which energy, information, and materialities undergo continuous transformation. Musical objects emerge not so much as reproduction of fixed works, but as dynamic concatenations of infinite “musical particles”—micro-events of ongoing individuation where affective, material, and conceptual forces momentarily converge, only to dissolve and reconfigure elsewhere. For performers, each particle marks a threshold where muscular, sensory, and imaginative energies convert into sonic form; for composers, these particles constitute generative diagrams that invite further differentiation. Drawing on Simondon’s concept of transduction, Deleuze and Guattari’s multiplicities, and Paulo de Assis’s differential ontology of music and the notion of performative transductions, this conference examines how performance functions as a field of energetic reconfiguration where the body acts as the central transductive force and bodies, instruments, notations, and concepts mutually transform one another.
Conference Dates: 05.11.–06.11.2026

EPARM 2027: Call for proposals
Proposals are invited on topics including, but not limited to: 
– thresholds in moving from artistic intuition to communicable knowledge
– the use of artistic processes as research methods
– shifts from individual authorship and artistic autonomy to collaborative and distributed forms of agency
– transitions from disciplinary identities to transdisciplinary and transcultural practices and communities
– shifts from using AI as a tool to critically engaging with AI as a technological condition
– transformations of artistic and educational practice through artistic research
Deadline: 15 November 2026
Time and Place: 22.–24. April 2027, Anton Bruckner University, Austria

IMPACT 2027 – Territories of Negotiation: Exploring Trends in Interdisciplinary Improvisation
Call for Proposals
The Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre is pleased to announce the international symposium Territories of Negotiation: Exploring Trends in Interdisciplinary Improvisation. This symposium aims to offer comprehensive perspectives from a diverse range of disciplines that engage with improvisation as an art form, a method of creation, or an object of research.
IMPACT 2027 explores the concept of negotiation as a central condition of improvisation and interdisciplinary practice. Encounters between different disciplines may generate collaboration, negotiation, tension, misunderstanding, transformation, and illumination. Contributions are invited that explore how artistic work and knowledge are shaped through and by spontaneity. 
Deadline: 15 November 2026
Time and Place: 11–13 Februar 2027, Tallinn, Estonia

5th International AIE Conference 
The AIE Conference is a platform for exploring artistic practice as a mode of research, where creation, reflection, and education converge across disciplines. We welcome both conventional academic formats and non-traditional modes of presentation and encourage proposals that critically engage the intersection of art, research, and education. We are thrilled to announce that Michael League and Daniel Canogar will join us as keynote speakers in the upcoming edition of the AIE Conference.
Time and Place: 18–20 November 2026, Madrid (in-person and online)

Beyond the Familiar: Call for Contributions
The 2027 SAR International Conference on Artistic Research will be hosted by the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). Founded in 1949, VŠMU is one of the oldest institutions for theatre, film, music and dance in Central Europe, bringing together three faculties across a densely networked artistic ecosystem in Slovakia and the wider region. Its location and history place it at a particular intersection of Central European cultural trajectories, while its compact cultural environment connects educational institutions, artistic organisations and independent creative practices. This context provides a distinctive setting for considering how artistic practices and forms of research move across cultural, social and institutional boundaries.
Deadline: 25 November 2026
Time and Place: 21.–23. April 2027, Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU), Slovakia

Call for Contributions: FORUM+ New Dossier Launch 
FORUM+, an international peer-reviewed journal for research in the arts, is looking for English and Dutch contributions for the new dossier “Solidarity as a form of imagination. Artistic research between the personal, the political, and the communal”. 
Deadline: 15 January 2027