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

Lea Farrell

Lea Farrell is a PhD student at Burren College of Art.  She holds a Diploma in Fine Art Painting Techniques and a BA (Hons) in Animation. Her work experiments with drawing, installations and video, with gesture drawing and expressive, motion-driven mark-making forming the structural core of her practice. Through large-scale, process-driven works, Lea examines domestic life as a site of repetition and care amid growing digital stimuli. Combining theoretical research with studio practice, her work explores domestic routine and care as affective and temporal conditions in dialogue with the growing omnipresence of Artificial Intelligence. Drawing on philosophy, psychology, cultural theory, and critical technology studies, her research investigates how AI and digital systems reshape intimacy, family life, and lived experience within the contemporary home.
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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.