Glenn Loughran

Glenn Loughran is an artist, educator and researcher at the School of Art and Design, TU Dublin. Currently, he is an artist-rese on the Technologies of Peace project at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA / 2026 -27). Since 2006 he has been a member of the Working Group on Artistic Research at the European League of Institutes of the Arts (ELIA). He has exhibited internationally at the Cooper Gallery, Dundee, Helsinki Research Pavilion Venice Biennale, Medialab Prado, Madrid, the Dakar Biennale, Dakar, the Lithuania Biennale, Kaunas, presented widely at the Creative Time Summit, Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou Paris, ELIA Biennale and published books and chapters with Columbia University, Bloomsbury and Sternberg Presses.

Forum Contribution

Artistic Research and Spatial Pedagogies in an era of Large Language models

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.