Foundations

Core past publications by the team members that inform the project.

Cover of Decentralized Music: Exploring Blockchain for Artistic Research
Decentralized Music: Exploring Blockchain for Artistic Research
Ed. Paulo de Assis & Adam Łukawski

An edited volume that maps blockchain as cultural infrastructure for music, focusing on provenance, agency, and new organisational models for artistic research.

Cover of Logic of Experimentation: Rethinking Music Performance Through Artistic Research
Logic of Experimentation: Rethinking Music Performance Through Artistic Research
Paulo de Assis

A methodological and conceptual account of artistic research that treats performance as experimentation and a site of knowledge production.

Cover of Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property
Tactical Entanglements: AI Art, Creative Agency, and the Limits of Intellectual Property
Martin Zeilinger

A critical account of AI art that explains creativity as distributed agency entangled with platforms, law, and ownership regimes.

Cover of Performative Transactions: Worlding Compositional Ecosystems (PhD dissertation)
Performative Transactions: Worlding Compositional Ecosystems (PhD dissertation)
Adam Łukawski

A practice-led dissertation that develops Performative Transactions and Decentralised Creative Networks as a compositional infrastructure for human–AI collaboration with encoded provenance.

Cover of Music 2.0 and artistic research. Beyond a thousand years of Western art music
Music 2.0 and artistic research. Beyond a thousand years of Western art music
Paulo de Assis

A programmatic essay that diagnoses how networked digital conditions reshape music and argues for artistic research as a driver of new musical practices.

Cover of Chapter: Hypermusic: New Musical Practices at the Crossroads of Music, Art and Thought
Chapter: Hypermusic: New Musical Practices at the Crossroads of Music, Art and Thought
Paulo de Assis

A conceptual framework for musical practices that operate as distributed assemblages across media, ideas, contexts, and technical systems.