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Art Education: a talent, a gift or a personal (self) expression?
Professor Tom Davies Did the academic theory of the last few decades help teachers and their respective learning communities? 'This short paper, in the futures section of the collection, is intended to challenge and provoke. It touches on the various relationships between art and education, both essentially interpreted as broad definitions. Seeing the future is really about assembling the pattern of past events as a likely arbinger of what may be evolving. The distillation of this collection of reflections/considerations, under the title of Perspectives on Art Education as an Interdisciplinary Practice, offers both the challenge and the hope'. |
Intermedia Dialogues Revisited - 3 scripts for Imaginary Conversations on Wholearthmedia.
Pete Worrall Abstract This paper presents a critical rationale of the current technological ecosystem that challenges current orthodoxies regarding the relationship between traditional methods (past), social media (present) and interdisciplinary practice (futures). The conceptual model locates media practices in three layers, the Context layer, the Interface (Ice) layer and the Representation layer. This blueprint provides a model for artists, art educators and students and is designed to enable users to identify and locate their position in relationship to the traditional methods (hardscape) and the digital tools (softscape) they are using. Through interdisciplinary practice, personal, social and professional networks can be realised, however it is essential that users understand and effectively utilize the new cultures of communication and craft to critically manage and model their diverse working environments across communities. |
