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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Ivan Illich: Deschooling Society (1971–) [EN, FR, DE, ES, BR-PT, GR, TR, PL]

“Critical discourse on education as practised in ‘modern’ economies. Full of detail on then-current programs and concerns, the book’s core assertions and propositions remain as radical today as they were at the time. Giving real-world examples of the ineffectual nature of institutionalized education, Illich posited self-directed education, supported by intentional social relations, in fluid, informal arrangements. The book is more than a critique — it contains positive suggestions for a reinvention of learning throughout society and throughout every individual lifetime. Particularly striking is his call for the use of advanced technology to support ‘learning webs’.”

Publisher Marion Boyars, London, 1971
ISBN 0714508799, 9780714508795
116 pages

Keywords and phrases
hidden curriculum, Cuernavaca, educational vouchers, profes, Latin America, regressive taxation, CIDOC, Epimetheus, Dennis Sullivan, Paulo Freire, Thomas Kuhn, propositional logic, Aristotle, Puerto Rico, Pandora, nomic, body count, underconsumption

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Deschooling Society (English, 1971, updated on 2012-7-8; PDF (2), HTML)
Une société sans école (French, trans. Gérard Durand, 1971/2015, EPUB, added on 2019-10-1)
Die Entschulung der Gesellschaft. Entwurf eines demokratischen Bildungssystems (German, trans. Helmut Lindemann, 1973, added on 2019-10-1)
La sociedad desescolarizada (Spanish, trans. Gerardo Espinosa, 1973/1985, added on 2019-10-1)
Sociedade sem escolas (BR-Portuguese, 7th ed., trans. Lúcia Mathilde Endlich Orth, 1973/1985, added on 2019-10-1)
Κοινωνία χωρίς σχολεία (Greek, trans. Vasilis Antonopoulos, 1976, added on 2019-10-1)
Okulsuz Toplum (Turkish, trans. Celal Öner, 2006, added on 2019-10-1)
Odszkolnić społeczeństwo (Polish, trans. Łukasz Mojsak, 2010, 50 MB, added on 2019-10-1)

Lee Hoinacki, Carl Mitcham (eds.): The challenges of Ivan Illich: a collective reflection (2002)

This unique collection examines the man Utne Reader has called “the greatest social critic of the twentieth century.” The essays — all but one written by people who knew Illich personally — discuss how his life and thought have affected conceptualization, study, and practice of psychotherapy, notions about education, ideas concerning the historical developments of texts, perceptions of technology, as well as other topics. All of Illich’s books are discussed and his ideas on education, theology, technology, anarchism, and society are examined in relationship to those of Rene Girard, Karl Polanyi, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Ellul. Illich’s previously unpublished paper offering a new view of conspiracy in European history is included.

Published by SUNY Press, 2002
ISBN 0791454215, 9780791454213
256 pages

Key terms:
CIDOC, Tools for Conviviality, Boyars, Puerto Rico, Cuernavaca, Jacques Ellul, Deschooling Society, Carl Mitcham, E.F. Schumacher, Rene Girard, homo economicus, David Cayley, Barry Sanders, Leopold Kohr, iatrogenesis, Dalmatia, Karl Polanyi, Duden, Louis Dumont

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