Moving the Art Education Paradigm Towards a Technology / Art Synthesis

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Kevan Nitzberg | 01/20/2009 03:39 0 Reputation Points. | 0 Comments

As a high school art teachers for the past 3 and a half decades, I have been moving more and more into both developing art curriculum that has a computer technology / media arts driven component as well as allowing my students to explore their own connections between traditional and experimental forms of artistic expression. My previous association with Ian Clothier (who is represented here at Intercreate.org), as a writer for art-themagazine.com, was somewhat instrumental in my moving in this direction. Recently my art classroom has turned into a hybrid Mini Mac computer lab and fine art studio which further allows me to engage in the aforementioned approach to teaching art. This article would be an exploration of that process which could also be illustrated with examples of my students’ work if that would also be possible to include.

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SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens
A symposium followed by a creative residency is to be held mid to late January 2011 in New Plymouth, Aotearoa New Zealand. The symposium will be held at Owae Marae, and seeks to bring a range of knowledge groups together to investigate the cultural roots of climate change and seek out poetically pragmatic approaches to encouraging the cultural and behavioural shifts required.

The SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens creative residency participants include Sue Page and Janine May, Jo Tito, Andrew Hornblow, Dhyana Beaumont, Lanfranco Aceti, DodoLab (Andrew Hunter with Lisa Hirmer), Raewyn Turner & Richard Newcomb, Karen Ingham, ÆLab (Gisèle Trudel with Stéphane Claude), Josephine Starrs and Leon Cmielewski, Angelo Vermeulen, Justin Morgan, Jonah Marinovich, Nina Czegledy (our International Research Fellow) and Janine Randerson, Keith Armstrong and James Muller, Ramon Guardans. Dr Te Huirangi Waikerepuru, Roger Malina and Erich Berger of Arsbioarctica will be involved in the hui, to be held at Owae marae. Julian Priest's Slow Flow project is also a partner project, and will immediately follow the SCANZ 2011 residency.

The dates for the events in and around the city of New Plymouth are:

Symposium/Hui — 14th-16th of January, Owae Marae in Waitara.

Creative Residency — 17th-30th of January, WITT Campus in New Plymouth.

Workshops — Throughout city, schedule to come.

Public Events — Throughout city, schedule to come. Will include events on the closing weekend.

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Solar Circuit Aotearoa New Zealand (SCANZ) is New Zealand’s premier art, technology, culture and ecology event and involves a symposium, creative residency, and public events and exhibitions. Occurring bi-annually, it has typically involved a mix of Aotearoa New Zealand and international artists, producers, theorists and curators many of whom are leading practitioners. Held in New Plymouth, SCANZ 2011: Eco sapiens will be the third event.

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