Readings For Artworkers, No. 2: Creative Industries and Knowledge Factories: Analysis and Resistance (2010)

“Journal of the Free / Slow University of Warsaw provides a summary of another year of activity of our educational para-institution. In 2010 we continued our critical reflection on the transformation of the public sphere in Poland. We analysed the current changes in creative and cultural circulation, in the world of independent initiatives, official institutions of art, academies and universities. We organised: 12 open seminars from the cycle Readers for Artworkers hosted by sociologists, artists, curators and activists; Second Congress of the Free / Slow University of Warsaw – Creative Industries and Knowledge Factories: Analysis and Resistance participated by educators, artists, activists and cultural theorists from the entire Europe. The present report includes texts and transcriptions that summarise our seminars, the congress and debates organised by the FSUW in 2010.”

Journal of Free/Slow University of Warsaw, Poland, 2010
Culture, Not Profit series
FSUW curators: Kuba Szreder, Jan Sowa
Edited by: Arek Gruszczyński, Bogna Świątkowska, Joanna Turek, Szymon Żydek
Transcription: Joanna Turek, Zuzanna Stańska, Katarzyna Maniak

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Gordon Pask: Conversation Theory. Application in Education and Epistemology (1976)

“The argument in this book aims to apply a body of cohesive and interpretable ideas, developed over the last dozen years or so, to issues of significance in educational psychology and epistemology. The history and development of these ideas, which emerged from experiments on perceptual motor learning, group interaction and sequential choice (as well as more obviously relevant studies of learning, subject matter structuring and cognition), are described in two previous books (Pask 1961, 1975a). But the main themes are crystallised in a monograph (henceforward called ‘the previous monograph’), Pask 1975b, Conversation, Cognition and Learning, which is part of the present series. In fact, the previous monograph marks a point of departure, for the notions cling together well enough to count as an empirically supportable theory: Conversation Theory.

Ideally, perhaps, Conversation, Cognition and Learning should be read first. But there are some 600 odd pages of it, including some lengthy appendices, and provided the reader will take various statements on trust, it is quite possible to start with this book. Conversation, Cognition and Learning can be regarded, with equal legitimacy, as an essay in man/man and man/machine symbiosis or as an essay upon education, learning and the like. In contrast, the present book is an application study and is unambiguously oriented towards the areas of education, its psychology and epistemology. The Introduction provides the essential groundwork, and for those who have read Conversation, Cognition and Learning, it bridges the gap between the two volumes.” (Gordon Pask, from Preface)

Publisher Elsevier, Amsterdam-Oxford-New York, 1976
ISBN 044441424X, 9780444414243
402 pages
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Hlavajova, Winder, Choi (eds.): On Knowledge Production: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art (2008)

“On Knowledge Production presents a selection of newly commissioned and anthologized texts by a diverse group of artists, art historians, philosophers, and theorists who have engaged with thinking critically about the field of art as a site for the production of knowledge. The body of contributions to this reader comprise a series of critical inquires, thought experiments, documents of practice, and tentative propositions about the status of producing knowledge in contemporary art, which vary widely in perspective, approach, and form. This selection unfolds different entry points and layers, unwrapping the (often) uncritically adopted notion of “art producing knowledge” and casting diverse views on the context, meaning, and potential of this understanding of art practices today.”

With contributions by Matthew Buckingham, Copenhagen Free University, Critical Art Ensemble, Clémentine Deliss, Joachim Koester, Sven Lütticken, Eva Meyer & Eran Schaerf, Marion von Osten, Alejandro del Pino Velasco/Sarat Maharaj, Irit Rogoff, Natascha Sadr Haghighian & Ashley Hunt, and Simon Sheikh.

Edited by Maria Hlavajova, Jill Winder, and Binna Choi
Publisher BAK-basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, and Revolver, Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
ISBN 9789077288115 (BAK), 9783865884664 (Revolver)
223 pages
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