List of Figures Acknowledgments Preface: To Research Through the Making of Art 1. Foundations and Guiding Principles Original premise and paradigm clarity Defining art-based research Institutional challenges Free movement of ideas and research 2. Personal and Empirical: A Pervasive Misunderstanding Embracing and transcending the personal 3. A Natural Emanation from Practice Formative processes--Liberating artistic interpretation Learning by not doing: A paradoxical realization Completing a natural art experiment 50 years later Art Alchemies Personal artistic expression can advance professional understanding Firsthand experimentation with methods of practice Plans and the "nature" of artistic intelligence 4. Art Is the Evidence: Persons, Process, and Creations An evidentiary epiphany Clear and convincing: Artistic quality matters Engaging art's unique presence and expression versus data analysis 5. Doing Art-Based Research in Academic Settings One person's perspective Working within limits and prescribed formats Breadth of artistic possibilities Freedom of inquiry 6. Research Structure: Simpler the Deeper Concise, jargon free, and natural writing Literature and citing Abstracting and distilling Proposals Questions and methods Presentation of the research and outcomes 7. Innovations Shaped by Experimentation Solo and reciprocal inquiry with others Artistic reflection in response to the research Video and new media The integral relationship of form, content, and process 8.

Looking to the Future Who can do art-based research? Natural art experiments emerging through practice "No rules" and the art - science relationship revisited In closing References Index.