Across different media and genres, contemporary artists work primarily within their studio. They enjoy intellectual exchange with colleagues, curators or students only sporadically, in the form of fairly infrequent studio visits, temporary exhibition projects, or, albeit otherwise, working as art school teachers. Academic researchers, whether from art history or other disciplines, rarely contribute to this exchange, which means that the artist's creativity and curiosity survives with little, if any, intellectual support. The following program aims to bridge this institutional gap between the university and the artists' studio, and to provide artists at various stages of their career with better access to fundamental issues currently being researched by leading researchers from various fields of knowledge. This is an opportunity for academics to participate in the cultivation of creative processes and to link their research with practices that may seem foreign to academic methods but nevertheless have a significant social and cultural impact.