Educating artists for the future : learning at the intersections of art, science, technology, and culture / Mel Alexenberg, editor.

Contributor(s):

Alexenberg, Melvin L

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bristol, U.K. ; Chicago, Ill. : Intellect, 2008.Description: 344 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

9781841501918
1841501913

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DDC classification:

370.1 ALE

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	370.1 ALE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100377861

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

In Educating Artists for the Future , some of the world's most innovative thinkers about higher education in the arts offer fresh directions for educating artists and designers for a post-digital future. A group of artists, researchers, and teachers from a dozen countries here redefine art at the interdisciplinary interface where scientific inquiry and new technologies shape aesthetic values. This volume offers groundbreaking guidelines for art educators, demonstrating how the interplay between digital and cultural systems calls for alternative pedagogical strategies that encourage student-centered interactive learning. "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 Institute of Technology

Includes bibliographical references.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

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)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

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.