Mel Alexenberg (ed.): Educating Artists for the Future. Learning at the Intersections of Art, Science, Technology, and Culture (2008)

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.

“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

Publisher Intellect Books, 2008
ISBN 1841501913, 9781841501918
344 pages

Keywords and phrases
Umbanda, transgenic, media art, prioric, Electronica, Roy Ascott, Eduardo Kac, aniconic, Nam June Paik, computer graphics, virtual reality, semiotic, locative media, Taoist, Bauhaus, Planetary Collegium, syncretic, education in Turkey, RISD, digital art

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