SAR ANNOUNCEMENT SERVICE (SARA)
What is SARA?
SAR enables individual and institutional members as well as non-members to distribute announcements of relevance to artistic research environments.
What type?
Announcements can be open calls, symposia, conferences, exhibitions, performances, publications, study programmes, available positions etc.
How?
Announcements are sent via a dedicated email list, reaching colleagues who have registered on the Research Catalogue (RC). RC has +10 million visits every year.
Who receives SARA?
SARA has a well-targeted and wide reach: there are around 14.000 subscribers from the artistic research community that receive the SARA announcements on a regular basis.
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Visibility?
The SARA announcements also appear on the Research Catalogue front page and on the SAR website. The RC has over 30.000 registered users at the moment. The average open rate for SARA is 60%.
SAR Announcement Pricing
Prices are per announcement
ABOUT US
The Society for Artistic Research (SAR) is an international nonprofit, artistic and scientific society devoted to developing, linking and disseminating internationally artistic research as a specific practice of producing knowledge. SAR also aims to facilitate co-operation and communication among those interested in the study and practices of artistic research.
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SAR promotes the practices of artistic research done in and outside of academic institutions.
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SAR facilitates co-operation and communication among those interested in artistic research.
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SAR organises and participates in conferences and meetings for the communication of artistic based knowledge, artistic research practices and results.
SAR was founded in 2010 in Bern, Switzerland by 80 artists, researchers and academics from around the globe (as an initiative of artists Florian Dombois and Michael Schwab together with Henk Borgdorff).

The Research Catalogue
The Research Catalogue (RC) is a non-commercial, collaboration and publishing platform for artistic research provided by SAR. The RC is free to use for artists and researchers. It serves also as a backbone for teaching purposes, student assessment, peer review workflows and research funding administration. It strives to be an open space for experimentation and exchange.
Register
The RC offers researchers an online platform in which sound, images, video and text can be combined in an integrated format for presentation, and in which the visual disposition and the focus on different media formats can be decided by the author herself/himself. The RC has more than 14,000 registered users and facilitates both individual research outcomes in the form of expositions, as well as a range of portal solutions. To register, head to this page.

The RC in numbers
The RC expositions have millions of visits every month, with a total of approximately 5000 expositions and 30,000 users. One of the most viewed expositions, Choreo-graphic Figures, has been viewed more than 74,000 times.
The RC and media
Being the largest international Artistic Research repository, the RC has a total of:
- 24,878 audio files
- 319,146 images
- 419,996 videos