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Educating Artists for the Future Mel Alexenberg

Educating Artists for the Future By Mel Alexenberg

Educating Artists for the Future by Mel Alexenberg


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Charts the dissolving boundaries between science, technology, culture and art, investigating and redefining art and higher art education. This book provides a polycultural look at higher education in art and design. It also provides exemplary models for education in various fields of human endeavour.

Educating Artists for the Future Summary

Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture by Mel Alexenberg

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.

Educating Artists for the Future Reviews

Once more, intense questions and complex reasoning, which ... begin to feel mind-broadening and powerful... This is a creative book for creative thinkers--particularly those with a passion for technological advances...This book embodies a perhaps very human urge to learn across disciplines, and explore the border conflicts of their interface.--Olivia Sagan, ESCalate Mel Alexenberg, a very sophisticated artist and scholar of much experience in the complex playing field of art-science-technology, addresses the rarely asked question: How does the 'media magic' communicate content? - Otto Piene, Professor Emeritus and Director, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture is a rare find. Editor Mel Alexenberg has done a remarkable job of bringing together outstanding artist/educators who are grappling with issues related to technology, ecology, creativity, agency, identity and community. Each individual author provides rich written descriptions of projects they have undertaken, the conceptual underpinnings that frame their work, and the implications of their practices for art education in informal and formal learning contexts. I am certain that readers reviewing this book will feel a profound sense of collectivity knowing we are at the edge of transforming the world in which we live. - Rita L. Irwin The links between Science and Art, severed so long ago, have not only reunited into a collective but are mutating into new and exciting dimensions. For Artists/Teachers/Researchers, and anyone interested in expanding their knowledge of post digital media, this is the perfect companion for navigation. Delving into the different sections of this text reveals a wealth of information regarding proposed and already successful course structures in Art and Technology. From cross-cultural and multi disciplined perspectives, the pathway is illuminated resulting in omni-directional destinations. You are guaranteed to find inspiration by the bucket-load whether you are an artist, designer, tutor, or student of Multimedia and the Arts. - Jade Ashcroft, Enlightening Times

About Mel Alexenberg

Mel Alexenberg is an artist who creates works at the interface between art, science, technology, and culture. He is the author of many books, including The Future of Art in a Digital Age, also published by Intellect Books.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: 'Learning at the Intersection of Art, Science, Technology and Culture' - Page 11 - Mel Alexenberg Chapter 2: 'Beyond the Digital: Preparing Artists to Work at the Frontiers of Technoculture' - Page 29 - Stephen Wilson Chapter 3: 'Pixels and Particles: The Path to Syncretism' - Page 47 - Roy Ascott Chapter 4: 'Sustaining Creativity and Losing the Wild' - Page 61 - Carol Gigliotti Chapter 5: 'Making Space for the Artist' - Page 75 - Mark Amerika Chapter 6: 'Unthinkable Complexity: Art Education in Networked Times' - Page 85 - Robert Sweeny Chapter 7: 'Art/Science & Education' - Page 103 - Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss Chapter 8: 'Learning, Education, and the Arts in a Digital World' - Page 115 - Ron Burnett Chapter 9: 'Afference and Efference: Encouraging Social Impact through Art and Science Education' - Page 127 - Jill Scott Chapter 10: 'Expressing with Grey Cells: Indian Perspectives on New Media Arts' - Page 141 - Vinod Vidwans Chapter 11: 'New Media Art as Embodiment of Tao' - Wengao Huang Chapter 12: 'Between Hyper-Images and Aniconism: New Perspectives on Islamic Art in the Education of Artists' - Page 155 - Ismailm Ozgur Soganci Chapter 13: 'Touching Light: Post-Traditional Immersion in Interactive Artistic Environments' - Page 169 - Diane Gromala Chapter 14: 'Media Golem: Between Prague and ZKM' - Page 193 - Michael Bielicky Chapter 15: 'Life Transformation - Art Mutation' - Page 203 - Eduardo Kac Chapter 16: 'Learning Through the Re-embodiment of the Digital Self' - 217 - Yacov Sharir Chapter 17: 'My Journey: From Physics to Graphic Design to User/Interface/Information-Visualization Design' - Page 229 - Aaron Marcus Chapter 18: 'Entwined Histories: Reflections on Teaching Art, Science, and Technological Media' - Page 245 - Edward A. Shanken Chapter 19: 'A Generative Emergent Approach to Graduate Education' - Page 253 - Bill Seaman Chapter 20: 'Media Literacy: Reading and Writing Images in a Digital Age' - Page 271 - Shlomo Lee Abrahmov Chapter 21: 'The Creative Spirit in the Age of Digital Technologies: Seven Tactical Exercises' - Page 291 - Lucia Leao Chapter 22: 'From Awesome Immersion to Hollistic Integration' - Page 305 - Mel Alexenberg

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GOR004277664
9781841501918
1841501913
Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture by Mel Alexenberg
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Intellect Books
20080616
192
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