Educating Artists for the Future

Mel Alexenberg

Description

In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world’s most innovative thinkers in higher education in art and design offer fresh directions for educating artists for a rapidly evolving post-digital future. Their creative redefinition of art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific enquiry and new technologies shape aesthetic and cultural values offers groundbreaking guidelines for art education in an era of emerging new media. This is the first book concerned with educating artists for the post-digital age, propelling artists into unknown territory. A culturally diverse range of art educators focus on teaching their students to create artworks that explore the complex balance between cultural pride and global awareness. They demonstrate how the dynamic interplay between digital, biological, and cultural systems calls for alternative pedagogical strategies that encourage student-centered, self-regulated, participatory, interactive, and immersive learning. Educating Artists for the Future charts the diaphanous boundaries between art, science, technology, and culture that are reshaping art education.

Sujets

• Arts visuels
• Arts visuels
• ART
• Digital
• General
• Design
• Higher education
• General officer
• EDUCATION

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books Ltd
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2008
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781841502267
• Langue: English

Extrait

Educating Artists for the Future:
Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture
Mel Alexenberg Editor
Educating Artists for the Future:
Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture
Mel Alexenberg Editor
First Published in the UK in 2008 by Intellect Books, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2008 by Intellect Books, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Copyright 2008 Intellect Ltd
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Front Cover: Based upon a painting by Mel Alexenberg in his Digitized Homage to Rembrandt series
Cover Design: Gabriel Solomons Copy Editor: Holly Spradling Typesetting: Mac Style, Nafferton, E. Yorkshire
ISBN 978-1-84150-191-8/EISBN 978-1-84150-226-7
Printed and bound by Gutenberg Press, Malta.
C ONTENTS
Introduction: Education for a Conceptual Age
Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture
Mel Alexenberg
Professor of Art and Founding Dean, School of Art and Multimedia, Netanya Academic College, Netanya, Israel, (author of The Future of Art in a Digital Age: From Hellenistic to Hebraic Consciousness , Intellect Books, 2006)
Beyond the Digital
Beyond the Digital: Preparing Artists to Work at the Frontiers of Technoculture
Stephen Wilson
Professor and Director of Conceptual/Information Arts Program, San Francisco State University, California, USA, (author of Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science, and Technology , MIT Press, 2002)
Pixels and Particles: The Path to Syncretism
Roy Ascott
President, Planetary Collegium and Professor, University of Plymouth, UK, (author of Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology and Consciousness , University of California Press, 2003, and editor of Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research )
Sustaining Creativity and Losing the Wild
Carol Gigliotti
Associate Professor of New Media, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Making Space for the Artist
Mark Amerika
Associate Professor of Art and Art History, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, (author of META/DATA: A Digital Poetics , MIT Press, 2007)
Networked Times
Unthinkable Complexity: Art Education in Networked Times
Robert Sweeny
Assistant Professor of Art and Art Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA
Art/Science Education
Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss
Professor and Head of the International M.A. Program ePedagogy Design - Visual Knowledge Building, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland, (author of (e)Pedagogy-Visual Knowledge Building: Rethinking Art and New Media in Education , Peter Lang, 2005)
Learning, Education, and the Arts in a Digital World
Ron Burnett
President of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, (author of How Images Think , MIT Press, 2004)
Afference and Efference: Encouraging Social Impact through Art and Science Education
Jill Scott
Research Professor: Institute for Cultural Studies in Art, Media and Design, Hochschule f r Gestaltung und Kunst Z rich, Switzerland, and Vice Director, Z-Node, Planetary Collegium, (author of Artistsinlabs: Exploring the Interface between Art and Science , Springer, 2006)
Polycultural Perspectives
Expressing with Grey Cells: Indian Perspectives on New Media Arts
Vinod Vidwans
Professor and Head of Departments of New Media and Software User Interface Design, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
New Media Art as Embodiment of Tao
Wengao Huang
Associate Professor of Media Art, College of Information Science and Engineering, Shandong University at Weihai, China
Between Hyper-Images and Aniconism: New Perspectives on Islamic Art in the Education of Artists
Ismail Ozgur Soganci
Assistant Professor of Fine Art Education, Anadolu University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Touching Light: Post-Traditional Immersion in Interactive Artistic Environments
Diane Gromala
Professor and Associate Director of the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada, co-author of Windows and Mirrors: Interaction Design, Digital Art and the Myth of Transparency (MIT Press 2005) and
Jinsil Seo
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University
Reflective Inquiry
Media Golem: Between Prague and ZKM
Michael Bielicky
Professor and Head of the Department of InfoArt/Digital Media, Hochschule f r Gestaltung, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, and Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
Life Transformation - Art Mutation
Eduardo Kac
Professor and Chairman, Art and Technology Department, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA, (author of Telepresence Bio Art , University of Michigan Press, 2005; editor of Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond , MIT Press, 2007)
Learning Through the Re-embodiment of the Digital Self
Yacov Sharir
Associate Professor of Dance and Multimedia Art, University of Texas at Austin, USA
My Journey: From Physics to Graphic Design to User-Interface/Information-Visualization Design
Aaron Marcus
President Aaron Marcus and Associates (AM+A), and Visiting Professor of Media Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL, USA, (author of Graphic Design for Electronic Documents and User Interfaces , Addison-Wesley, 1991)
Emergent Praxis
Entwined Histories: Reflections on Teaching Art, Science, and Technological Media
Edward A. Shanken
Senior Researcher, UCLA Art/Science Center and Lab, Los Angeles, CA, and Professor of Art History, Savanah College of Art and Design, Georgia, USA (editor of Telematic Embrace: Visionary Theories of Art, Technology, and Consciousness , University of California Press, 2003)
A Generative Emergent Approach to Graduate Education
Bill Seaman
Professor and Head of Department of Digital Media, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA
Media Literacy: Reading and Writing Images in a Digital Age
Shlomo Lee Abrahmov
Senior Lecturer in Design and Instructional Systems Technologies, Holon Institute of Technology, Holon, Israel
The Creative Spirit in the Age of Digital Technologies: Seven Tactical Exercises
Lucia Leao
Professor of Art and Technology, Department of Computer Science, Sao Paulo Catholic University, and SENAC, Brazil, (author of Derivas: Cartografias do Ciberespa o , Annablume, 2004)
Epilogue: Realms of Learning
From Awesome Immersion to Holistic Integration
Mel Alexenberg
Former Associate Professor of Art and Education, Columbia University, Chairman of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Dean of Visual Arts, New World School of the Arts, Miami, and Research Fellow, MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, USA
About the Authors
I NTRODUCTION : E DUCATION FOR A C ONCEPTUAL A GE
L EARNING AT THE I NTERSECTIONS OF A RT , S CIENCE , T ECHNOLOGY AND C ULTURE
Mel Alexenberg
The genesis of this book was an invitation by the renowned mathematicians Tzvi Arad and Bernard Pinchik to create a new School of Art and Multimedia at Netanya Academic College in Israel. I began to develop a proposal for a school in which students redefine art in creative ways at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific inquiry and new technologies shape aesthetic and cultural values - both local and global. Although I have had years of experience in both science and art education, I knew that I needed to explore fresh directions for educating artists for the future in a rapidly changing world where the boundaries between art, science, technology, and culture are becoming diaphanous. What better way to discern these new directions, I thought, than to invite some of the world s most innovative thinkers in higher education in the arts to advise me. This book is their advice. It not only offers invaluable advice for creating new schools, but it provides alternative paths for upgrading and refreshing existing art schools and university art departments worldwide for a post-digital future.
As I studied the diverse chapters exploring alternative futures for educating artists that I received from artists/researchers/teachers working in Brazil, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, India, Israel, South Korea, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and the United States, I began to search for a conceptual framework for organizing this book. My search was interrupted by a meeting in Holland with Charles Esche, Director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, and Richard Flood, Chief Curator of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. We were charged with awarding an artist the coveted Wolf Prize, the equivalent in the arts of the Nobel Prize, from among numerous nominations received from throughout the world. The three of us unanimously agreed to award Michaelangelo Pistoletto the prize because of his inventive career as an artist, educator, and activist, whose restless intelligence has created prescient forms of art that address the major technological and cultural changes of our era. In his hometown, Biella, Italy, he established Cittadellarte as a center to inspire artists to produce responsible change in society through transdisciplinary ideas and creative projects. Pistoletto asserts, Artists have a unique and totally free way of understanding and analyzing society, and consequently of being engaged with it. Cittadellarte firmly believes that art can interact among all the diverse spheres of human activity that form society, and is thereby a generator for responsible transformation of society.
At Schiphol Airport, waiting for my flight home to Tel Aviv, I wa