Scherdin is now working with a twin research process involving live produced art as well traditional academic research in a strive for better understanding of cogitative elements (not cognitive) and methods used in creative processes. The research is documented with autoethnographic method, and can be followed continiously, in objects, videos, installations and traditional writings - now in studio.
In his doctoral thesis, which describes the growth and ultimate fate of the art initiative nonTVTVstation, Assistant Professor Scherdin used the autoethnographic method. He is now working on a research project that combines academic research with producing a live art project, trying to develop new methods for "practitioners" working with creative processes in the fields of e.g. art and entrepreneurship. The main theoretical focus is on artistic and entrepreneurial processes in using cogitative* powers of the brain. Other ongoing work includes papers on the core assumptions of the domain of entrepreneurship research, the ecology of new art initiatives, and opportunity recognition. New works are presented at this site continiously, both in writing and as results from the practice based research process.
The new studio will be located at the Centre for Sustainable Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. For several years Scherdin produced many art pieces combining sound and vision in synchronic, real-time-based objects. Some of the art pieces have been shown in international new media art spaces, among them: Eyebeam, NYC (US.), LaVillette Numerique (FRA.), [SAT] - Society for Art and Technology (CAN.), but also at prestigious spaces such as Kiasma, the Museum for Contemporary Art (FIN.), Moderna - the Swedish Museum of Modern Art, M.F.S.K - the Danish Museum of Contemporary Art, and at the Nordic Pavilion at the World Expo in Japan.
*Belief, thought, imaginations are all parts of the mind/brain cogitative powers, similar to the concept of Searle (1992), as background capacities of the brain, and to be separated from cognitive powers, which mainly is based upon knowledge structures.
