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About the book >.>.> Art as the Production of Knowledge This study is the outcome of extensive reflection on the training and practice of studio-based research in university Creative Arts programmes. It is aimed at extend- ing understandings of the processes and methodologies of artistic research as the production of knowledge and assessing the potential impact of such research within the discipline and the broader cultural arena. The emergence of the discipline of practice-led research highlights the crucial interrelationship that exists between the- ory and practice and the relevance of theoretical and philosophical paradigms for the contemporary arts practitioner. This book also aims to reveal and identify additional criteria for assessing quality research in the field. In the final chapter of this study I discuss Richard Dawkins’ concept of the meme as a useful way of understanding the importance of replication as a measure of what constitutes robust and successful research. We propose that artistic practice be viewed as the production of knowl- edge or philosophy in action. Drawing on materialist perspectives including Martin Heidegger’s notion of “handlability” our exploration of artistic research demon- strates that knowledge is derived from doing and from the senses. We demonstrate further that practice-led research is a new species of research generative enquiry that draws on subjective interdisciplinary and emergent methodologies that have the potential to extend the frontiers of research. (LL)