CITAR launches the 3rd volume of The Science and Technology of the Arts Collection, a collaboration between CITAR and UCP Press. This is a collection of scientific books that aims to accompany two of the centre’s main research lines — Cinema & Visual Arts and Sound & New Media Art — engaging with the scientific output of the main events organised by the research unit.

This third volume, “Response(ability)”, edited by Andrada-Cristina Neacșu, Catarina Lopes Cordeiro, Dila Yumurtaci and Marta Gueidão, brings together contributions from diverse artistic fields, exploring notions of destruction as a generative space for resistance, co-creation and reimagination, as well as the ethical and political dimensions of the concept of “response-ability”. Seeking to expand on some of the central discussions of the 2nd edition of the Graduate Conference on Science and Technology of the Arts, this book examines how artistic and research practices can operate as forms of critical response to ecological collapse, political violence, and contemporary transformations of collective life, fostering more relational, collaborative and sensitive modes of existence.

Engaging with speculative methodologies, embodied practices and posthuman imaginaries, the book questions how art and research may propose new ways of living, resisting and imagining futures in the face of material loss. The volume opens with an essay by Işıl Eğrikavuk, The Other Garden: Artistic Research, Ecology, and Belonging in the Academy, and includes contributions by Laila Algaves Nuñez, Filippo Deorsola, Nuno da Luz, Isidora Correa Allamand, Pedro Andrade, Shahriar Khonsari, Rita Xavier and Grécia Paola Matos.

The Response(ability) volume is now available for free reading on the UCP Press Open Books portal.