Joseph Steele

Joseph D. Steele, PhD (U. Colorado Boulder 2023) is a filmmaker, researcher, and curator whose work traces how moving images shape historical and sensory knowledge within conditions of modernity and decoloniality. His ongoing project Archive Poiēsis: On the Practice of Renée Green explores essay film, conceptual art, and archival practice as poetic and critical methods for engaging transnational experience. Based at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Steele’s films and writing extend these inquiries to experimental nonfiction practices in the Caribbean and Europe. His curatorial collaborations with artist-run labs and media institutions connect theory, practice, [hi-]stories, and the collective work of reimagining archives.

Forum Contribution

Articulating Artistic Research: Language and Poetics

Loose Conceptualism: Deadpan Strategies and the Figure of the Migrant

Endangered Conceptual Worlds

The 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research takes place from 23 to 26 June 2026. Hosted by the University of Galway on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, the Forum addresses the challenges of Endangered Conceptual Worlds. As the 17th annual conference of the Society for Artistic Research it is the largest conference on practice-based research within and through the arts, bringing together more than 300 international participants: leading practitioners, scholars and policymakers from the entire range of arts-based disciplines.

Slightly extended deadline for submissions

The 2026 Forum on Artistic Research website has been inaccessible for several hours on Friday night and Saturday morning. Unfortunately, an update to the web server was scheduled to take place, which automatically activated maintenance mode and prevented any work on the submissions during the night and the next morning. We have therefore decided to slightly extend the deadline for submissions to Monday 2 March 2026 at 23:59 GMT. Feel free to work on your proposals until then.