Emma Cocker is a writer-artist whose research focuses on artistic processes and practices, and the performing of thinking-in-action therein. Cocker’s language-based artistic research comprises a matrix of writing, reading and conversation practices, including diverse process-oriented, dialogic-collaborative and aesthetic-poetic approaches to working with and through language. Cocker’s writing has been published in Failure, 2010; Stillness in a Mobile World, 2010; Drawing a Hypothesis: Figures of Thought, 2011; Hyperdrawing: Beyond the Lines of Contemporary Art, 2012; On Not Knowing: How Artists Think, 2013; Choreo-graphic Figures: Deviations from the Line, 2017; The Creative Critic: Writing as/about Practice, 2018; Live Coding: A User's Manual, 2023, and in the solo collections, The Yes of the No, 2016, and How Do You Do?, 2024. Cocker is co-founder of the international Society for Artistic Research Special Interest Group for Language-based Artistic Research. She is Associate Professor in Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University.

Exhibition/Project: Contemporary Code – Artistic Research


City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong
30 October 2015 - 29 November 2015
An exhibition project by the University of Applied Arts Vienna in cooperation with the School of Creative Media/ City University of Hong Kong
Curated by Gerald Bast, Alexander Damianisch, Romana Schuler
  
In the 1960s, the term “visual research” was introduced into certain fields instead of the term “art”. The term “artistic research”, which has become increasingly relevant in recent decades, continues this development. Research characterizes an understanding that is gaining more and more validity in art while having an innovative impact. In the exhibition “CONTEMPORARY CODE – ARTISTIC RESEARCH”, artistic research is being internationally positioned as part of the new academic guiding model of the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Five years ago, President Gerald Bast co-initiated the PEEK Research Program in Austria, with the aim of promoting an interdisciplinary approach in the arts and sciences. Today, PEEK is one of Austria’s key contributions to the international developments in the field of artistic and research driven activities.

Participating projects:
Artist Philosophers. Philosophy as Arts-Based Research
Artistic Technology Research
BIORNAMETICS – Architecture Defined By Natural Patterns
Breaking the Wall – Playful Interfaces for Music Audience Participation
Choreo-graphic Figures. Deviations from the Line
DIGITAL SYNESTHESIA
E/M/D/L – European Mobile Dome Lab for Artistic Research
Eden's Edge
Empowerment in the Practice of Art and the Social Sciences 
Expansion and Development THIS BABY DOLL WILL BE A JUNKIE
GrAB – Growing As Building
Interacct
Liquid Things
n.formations – An Atlas of Experiments in Materialized Information
NO ISBN – the Privatization of Publication
Quantum Cinema – A Digital Vision
Robotic Woodcraft – Performative Producers in Architecture and Design
Stitching Worlds
Transpositions: Artistic Data Exploration
Visuality & Mathematics