Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation (CADRE)

The Centre for Art, Design, Research and Experimentation (CADRE) focuses on the effect of art and design on society – from digital media, to performance, to contemporary visual art. 

The Centre, part of the School of Art and Design, investigates a broad range of artistic practices that influence the way we think, feel and behave.

Recent highlights

Recent research investigations have included:

• Dualism and the Critical Languages of Portraiture    
• Instances of the Emergence of the Documentary Real in Relational and Post-Relational Art Practice
• Art, Landscape and Material, Subject into Media.

Impacts

The Centre’s overall concern lies in art practices that involve social interaction and public engagement. The social impact inherent in new interactive technologies, the theory and practice of cultural agency, experiments in radical democracy and the exploring of material processes for performative objects remain the hallmark of both the intellectual and practical research in its five research clusters.

Research areas

The centre's activity is focused on the following five areas (also forming the centre's research custers):

• Art Critique and Social Practice
• Materials and Theoretical Practice
• Digital Theory Technology and Practice
• Communication and Pedagogy
• Creative Processes in the Performing Arts

More information

Tel: 01902 322 213  |  Email: art-design@wlv.ac.uk   |  Web: www.wlv.ac.uk/cadre