ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the role of the digital musical instrument in the corresponding artistic research project and shed light on a boundary object with a reverse structuration. Stereotypical ideas about “artistic” and “scientific” procedures rigidified without being discussed among the researchers, mental barriers increased and hindered collaboration between them instead of enabling it. On the side of the researchers from the arts university, who developed the instruments, one reaction to the instrument became to be similarly negative. Modular settings or installations that combine artistic elements with knowledge-related questions therefore facilitate reflective processes. The chapter shows that boundary objects in artistic research settings have diverse forms, inhabit varying roles throughout the research process, and address several types of recipients. The emerging dynamics and their development in artistic research contexts depend on a specific constellation of people, experiences, material, spatial settings, timing, and institutional contexts.
