[mtp-teoria] upgrade komensky

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upgrade.komensky.dot.org
Prague 31.5.2007

students/teachers meeting and discussion on the situation in Art and Education, across the disciplines

What is the current state of education in the area of cross and interdisciplinary models and strategies? How students, technicians, artists and researchers in the area of traditional and innovative approaches, modes of thinking and working, transfer, share practices, knowledge and strategies? 

How schools, teachers and students reflect their own roles and positions? 
Are we able to form and re-form what is recently going on at several Art Academies, Humanities and Technical universities, but as well at highschools and other experimental education platforms in the Czech Republic (and abroad)? 

What are the concepts and experiences to face and challenge the tendencies of growing specialization and thoughts on the efficiency of collaboration and communication across the professions and language boundaries?
  
Can we assume that the conception, production, management, use of many new tools are increasingly relying on the merging of artistic, scientific, technological, social models emerging from daily life, arts, science, and humanities? 

Or it is only wishful thinking since the discourses of the different branches of knowledge, art and crafts are too specific and difficult to converge, to accessing such difficult and complex aspiration of students with analytical, critical and creative skills and knowledge?  

statement:

new tools and technical environments as digital tools for visualisation, wireless environments, nanotechnology, smart, mobile, ubiquitous technologies offer many opportunities for the convergences of the traditional strategies and tools, which we are applying in the educational and academic context of Art praxis and theory.

In order to share and live in the conceptual and material space artist and non artists should achieve and strive not only for the technical mastering, but as well for the creative skills to understand and recycle the existing technologies, as well to search for new contexts and broader consequences of the artifact: the poetic, social, economic, and environmental factors, an insight into philosophy, production, social and historical contexts.

In general  the tendencies acedemic education are under the influence of economicaly driven society.There is a call for increasingly productive ‘professional’ artists, curators, directors, critics, etc’. Can Art education we are familiar with, be modeled after this standarts of production and efficiency model applied from technical fields?

Perhaps there is a need to change the vocabulary – to swap knowledge transfer and knowledge assessment, professionalisation, quantifiable outcomes and marketability for another set of terms and another set of aspirations. The meeting aims to articulate this situation from the point of individual perception and experiences.

The following questions have been asked in the occasion of the last meeting on art and education at the FAMU more than year ago. 

How do you perceive the importance of continuity from different grades of education. basic, middle, academic, graduate, postgraduate in this context?

What methods of learning and teaching "new media" do your prefer? 

What is the proportion between theory and practical /hands on/ in your school, program? 

Does your curriculum support collaboration, interdisciplinary and project based learning?

Do you cooperate with other departments, faculties, universities?

Do you cooperate with the industry, with companies and institutes from different sectors and in what form? 

How important is international cooperation for you program?

What are the problems and challenges your program is facing?

This meeting should enhance the cooperation and the transfer of knowledge between different institutions involved in new media education in the Czech republic and internationally. 

We invite you to be a part of this.

Milos Vojtechovsky

vojtechovskym at famu.cz