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17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)

Lynne Heller

Lynne Heller is a post-disciplinary artist, designer, educator and academic. Her interests encompass both material and virtual culture, AR/VR performance, textile practices, and graphic novels. Heller completed her MFA at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and her PhD at University College Dublin, Ireland. Her research was practice-based, with a specialty in feminism and Digital Media Arts. She is an Adjunct Professor, Graduate Faculty and Co-director of the Data Materialization Studio at OCAD University; Adjunct Professor SMARTlab, University College Dublin; Reviews Editor of Virtual Creativity, Intellect; and Principal Investigator of the SSHRC funded Partnership Development Grant, Thinking Through Craft and the Digital Turn.
17th Conference of the Society for Artistic Research (SAR)

Welcome to SAR 2026

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.

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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.