In the context of current debates on artistic methods of inquiry, the project AR – Artistic Research aimed to take up visionary artist, designer, and MIT professor György Kepes’ call for art on a civic scale, which appraises the specific potential of artistic examination and intervention in the urban environment.

This publication serves as a memorandum on Kepes’ insistence that artistic research be approached holistically, and that the knowledge it produces be placed on the same level as scientific research.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition AR – Artistic Research at the Massachusets Institute of Technology (MIT), 17 November 2010 – 12 May 2011.