EARN (European Artistic Research Network) was established to share and exchange knowledge and experience in artistic research; foster mobility, exchange and dialogue among artist researchers; promote wider dissemination of artistic research; and enable international connectivity and exchange for artistic research.
The network was originally established through a series of meetings between 2004 and 2006. Throughout the 2010s the network was primarily based on the cooperation across ten European art academies. The key task during this period was to advocate for forms of research and enquiry realised within, and through, artistic practices, and to provide various platforms to profile these.
Since 2020 the agenda for EARN has evolved. There is now a new approach to co-development of research through thematic working groups; a new emphasis on active research generation; and a process of expanding membership (beyond the provincial boundaries imagined as ‘Europe’).