This is an incredibly useful list and it is generous of you and Victoria to
make it available.
Although the theme this month is art-science I would prefer to broaden the
scope immediately as other disciplines are also relevant. In particular,
whilst the creative arts attempts to engage science gain a degree of
attention, it is important to note other interdisciplinary combinations. My
own interests range from the creative arts (visual art, dance, performance,
creative writing, architecture), social sciences (ethnology, anthropology,
linguistics, etc), cultural theory and humanities to the techno-sciences
(computing, informatics, physics and chemistry).
The agenda, I would argue, is interdisciplinary creative inquiry asking
what all these disciplines can do for one another, what might emerge (or has
emerged) and what are the problems inherent in working across disciplines.
Simon
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Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:30:35 +0100
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Subject: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] Art-Science and Science-Art Curricula: Call
for Contributions
for the november topic Art, Science, and Methods
you may be interested in this compilation of curricula
of art science courses that are currently being taught
in universities that victoria vesna and i are working on,
hoping that this will lead to to a workshop or conference
on the teaching of art-science and science-art
Whereas there is a developing curriculum base in teaching
new media that grew out of the computer art courses in the
1970s and 1980s, the art-science area is only just developing
in universities through a few pioneering individuals= and there
is nothing like a standard base curriculum. In many universities
it is not possible to get course accreditation for art science
classes as pointed out by pier-luigi capucci for italy
I have asked the question whether there can be a standard
curriculum or not= in fields ranging as far as art and medecine,
art and meteorology, art and genetics, art and anthropology,
art and astronomy etc
I have been struck by the report on The Future of Learning
Institutions in a Digital Age funded by Marcarthur Foundation
and just published by MIT Press ( available for free on line
at HASTAC)= it advocates ten principles or learning instutions
in the digital age that are surely applicable to art-science
here is the call for art science curricula
roger
>
> Art-Science and Science-Art Curricula: Call for Contributions
>
>
http://www.twine.com/twine/12hmrlnzz-260/art-science-and-science-art-curricu
la
>
> Leonardo Education Forum co chair Victoria Vesna and
> Leonardo Executive Editor Roger Malina are interested
> in examples of courses and curricula that are in the
> art-science field- such as courses on art and biology, art and
> mathematics, art and chemistry, art and environmental
> sciences etc.
>
> We are not collecting art and new media curricula, but the
> broad range of arts ( all forms from performing ,
> sound, visual etc) connecting to all sciences, hard and
> social sciences. We are including art and new
> technologies if they are not new media ( eg nano tech).
>
> People who have taught an art-science or science art class,
> at university or secondary school level,
> in formal or informal settings are invited to contact
> roger malina, with details of their curriculum, at
> rmalina---at----alum.mit.edu
>
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