The Planetary Collegium: Towards the Radical Reconstruction of Art Education

Documents, Essays

Guest edited by Roy Ascott

This special section features a series of articles addressing the present and future needs and nature of art education in the light of developments in technology, science and the arts. Ideas and proposals developed through interpersonal and Internet collaboration are emphasized.

Roy Ascott gives an overview of the project in his Introduction to The Planetary Collegium: Towards the Radical Reconstruction of Art Education.

The first article in the series is entitled "Bridge To, Bridge From: The Arts,Technology and Education," by Carol Gigliotti. In this text, the author investigates theories and practices, sometimes very much at odds, of contemporary educational involvements in the arts and technology.

Issues covered in the special project 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

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