The spring board of the discussion will be Mel Alexenberg's forthcoming book Educating Artists for the Future from Intellect books.
Educating Artists for the Future: Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture
Intellect Books
CONTENTS
Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture
Mel Alexenberg, Editor
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,
Pixels and Particles: The Path to Syncretism Roy Ascott, President, Planetary Collegium and Professor, University of Plymouth, UK.
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,
Realms of Learning: From Awesome Immersion to Holistic Integration
Mel Alexenberg, Professor of Art and Founding Dean, School of Art and Multimedia Design, Netanya
Art/Science & Education Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss, Professor and Head of the International MA
Program in ePedagogy, University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland.
Learning, Education and the Arts in a Digital World Ron Burnett President of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,
Unthinkable Complexity: Art Education in Networked Times Robert Sweeny, Assistant Professor of Art and Art Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA, USA
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 für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich, Switzerland,
Expressing with Grey Cells: Indian Perspectives on New Media Art
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 New Media Art, Academy of Arts
and Design, Chongqing University, Chongqing, China
Between Hyper-Images and Aniconism: New Perspectives on Islamic Art in the Education of Artists Ozgur Sogancy, Assistant Professor of Fine Art Education, Anadolu
University, Eskisehir, Turkey
Touching Light: PostTraditional 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: Jinsil Seo, PhD Candidate, School of Interactive Arts and Technology, Simon Fraser University, Canada.
Media Golem: Between Prague and ZKM
Michael Bielicky, Professor and Head of the Department of InfoArt/Digital Media, Hochschule fur 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
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
Entwined Histories: Reflections on Teaching Art, Science, and Technological Media Edward A. Shanken, Professor of Art History, Savannah College of Art
and Design, Georgia, USA
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.