Educating Artists for the Future

by Alexenberg, Mel

• ISBN13: 9781841501918
• ISBN10: 1841501913
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-16
• Publisher: Intellect L & D E F A E

Summary

In Educating Artists for the Future, some of the world's most innovative thinkers of 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 ground-breaking 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.

Author Biography

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

Introduction: Education for a Conceptual Age	p. 9
Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology and Culture	p. 11
Beyond the Digital	p. 27
Beyond the Digital: Preparing Artists to Work at the Frontiers of Technoculture	p. 29
Pixels and Particles: The Path to Syncretism	p. 47
Sustaining Creativity and Losing the Wild	p. 61
Making Space for the Artist	p. 75
Networked Times	p. 83
Unthinkable Complexity: Art Education in Networked Times	p. 85
Art/Science & Education	p. 103
Learning, Education, and the Arts in a Digital World	p. 115
Afference and Efference: Encouraging Social Impact through Art and Science Education	p. 127
Polycultural Perspectives	p. 139
Expressing with Grey Cells: Indian Perspectives on New Media Arts	p. 141
New Media Art as Embodiment of Tao	p. 155
Between Hyper-Images and Aniconism: New Perspectives on Islamic Art in the Education of Artists	p. 169
Touching Light: Post-Traditional Immersion in Interactive Artistic Environments	p. 175
Reflective Inquiry	p. 191
Media Golem: Between Prague and ZKM	p. 193
Life Transformation - Art Mutation	p. 203
Learning Through the Re-embodiment of the Digital Self	p. 217
My Journey: From Physics to Graphic Design to User-Interface/Information-Visualization Design	p. 229
Emergent Praxis	p. 243
Entwined Histories: Reflections on Teaching Art, Science, and Technological Media	p. 245
A Generative Emergent Approach to Graduate Education	p. 253
Media Literacy: Reading and Writing Images in a Digital Age	p. 271
The Creative Spirit in the Age of Digital Technologies: Seven Tactical Exercises	p. 291
Epilogue: Realms of Learning	p. 303
From Awesome Immersion to Holistic Integration	p. 305
About the Authors	p. 337
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