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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2026): In Progress

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EISSN: 2436-8539

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Cultural Arts Research and Development is an international, peer-reviewed, open-access journal dedicated to advancing research at the intersection of cultural studies, visual and media culture, and digital humanities. The journal provides a scholarly platform for critical, theoretical, and interdisciplinary investigations into cultural and creative practices across diverse historical and global contexts.

CARD focuses on how literature, art, and emerging digital forms both shape and reflect cultural representation, identity, and transformation in contemporary societies. It particularly encourages research that integrates traditional humanities scholarship with digital technologies, creative media, and evolving artistic practices.

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Medieval Mystical Narratives as Pre-Modern Utopias: New Conceptualizations of the Religious Experience by Mechthild von Magdeburg and Angela da Foligno

Albrecht Classen


2026, 06 :1-13 DOI: https://doi.org/10.55121/card.v6i2.1150

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Older research had traditionally assumed that the genre of utopias emerged only with Thomas Morus’s Utopia (1516), that is, at a time when the concept of the early modern nation had reached maturity and when intellectuals began to question the political status quo, looking for political and social alternatives in a future or projected world. Medievalists, however, have argued by now against this m... more
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Digital Music as Artistic Research: Practice, Platforms, and Post-Digital Aesthetics

Triyono Bramantyo


2026, 06 :14–24 DOI: https://doi.org/10.55121/card.v6i2.102025

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This article approaches digital music as a form of artistic research, examining the ways aesthetic value is produced through creative practice, platform-based infrastructures, and post-digital sonic conditions. From a practice-informed standpoint, it understands composition, curation, and technologically mediated listening as primary modes of artistic inquiry, rather than as derivative outcomes of... more
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Aura: An Elusive Concept in Art Theory and Museum Practice

Werner Schweibenz


2026, 06 :25–42 DOI: https://doi.org/10.55121/card.v6i2.102386

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According to Tate’s online glossary Art Terms, aura is a quality integral to an artwork that cannot be communicated through mechanical reproduction techniques. So what happens to the aura in the age of digital reproduction? The paper describes the origin of this concept, which was introduced by the author and art critic Walter Benjamin in 1936 and became popular in the 1980s. Today, aura is used i... more
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Ink, Paper, Bodyminds and Ideas: Material Consciousness in Architectural Sketching

Otto Paans


2026, 06 :43-70 DOI: https://doi.org/10.55121/card.v6i2.101881

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Sketching in the context of architecture has often been framed as either the intellectual development of an idea by visual means, or more recently as a heuristic instrument. In both cases, the influence of the lived body and subjective experience have been sidelined. This article investigates these material conditions of architectural sketching. I examine the notion of a “cultural technique” (Kult... more
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