Leonardo Call for Papers

The Planetary Collegium:
Towards the Radical Reconstruction of Art Education

Papers addressing the present and future needs and nature of art education in the light of developments in technology, science and the arts are sought. Ideas and proposals developed through interpersonal and Internet collaboration are especially welcome.

The Guest Editor for the project is Roy Ascott.

Issues to address might include:

• Has digital post-modernism really killed off Bauhaus idealism?
• Personal expression, artistic sensibility and the post-biological body
• Educational cyberstate in relation to university real estate
• Architecture education: More aloof than alive?
• The criteria and assessment of quality in a relativistic culture
• Mideologies
• Distributed authorship and distance-design collaboration
• Putting the art into artificial life
• Should studies in consciousness precede point, line and plane?
• The research student in cyberspace
• The art instructor: Facilitator, collaborator or role model?
• Is there a-life after art school?
• Science fiction as design education
• The value of transience in curriculum design
• Art as shareware
• Mosaic, modularity and the global curriculum
• Student access to Internet tutors and learning agents
• Planning planetary seminars on art and design education for the year 2000

Journal Editorial Guidelines

Proposals/questions to: leonardomanuscripts@gmail.com