VIII Art of Research Conference: Re-Imagining The theme of the eighth Art of Research conference is “Re-Imagining”, addressing the various gestures of going back, returning to take another look, or for starting anew. It suggests that research in the context of artistic and creative practice could have a special relation to time; simultaneously attaching itself to a prior moment in time and from there propelling imagination to unforeseen futures. The theme proposes reassessments where the evaluation of past events, integral to research, is in unison with the anticipation potential, integral to the arts. It wonders about new conceptions of an idea, place, space, object, and ways of doing and making that emerge from a reverse glance — the challenges, updates, and improvements. The Art of Research conferences promote the continuous dialogue of research practices in art and design. The previous seven international conferences have contributed to the development of rapidly growing and spreading discourse on artistic and practice-led research. Over the two decades, the conferences have had a significant role in engaging in multiple notions of research where diverse modes of creative practice are used as catalysts for enquiry. This year, we have received an outstanding number of submissions, a total of 170. Through the double-blind peer review the programme selected 29 full papers and 41 explorative papers to be presented in the conference. With the shorter explorative papers, the conference expects to welcome other ways of looking at artistic research. We continue to emphasize the relevance of the creative outputs in artistic research through an exhibition related to the papers presented at the conference, with 32 contributions. In addition, we complete the conference programme with two keynotes that explore the conference themes from exciting perspectives: Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago and Laura Beloff. The conference takes place between the 30th November and 1st December at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland.