Leonardo Education Forum LEF at ARS Electronica 2009

Normal 0 21 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Leonardo Education Forum LEF at ARS Electronica 2009 Daniela Reimann, Nina Czegledy, Lynn Hughes Broad goals of the Leonardo Education Forum The Leonardo Education Forum LEF is a working branch of the “International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology, San Francisco. Leonardo ISAST serves the international arts community by promoting and documenting work at the intersection of the arts, sciences, and technology, and by encouraging and stimulating interdisciplinary collaboration. http://www.leonardo.info/isast/isastinfo.html The Leonardo Education Forum LEF promotes the advancement of artistic research and academic scholarship serving practitioners, scholars, and students who are members of the Leonardo community; LEF provides a platform for collaboration and exchange with other scholarly communities. http://forum.lefnet.org/hello Recent initiatives Currently, a LEF group is working on an international initiative to interrogate the gap between arts, science and technology in education, with a focus on questions such as: “Media Art Education in the 21st Century – what can be done? What are the most inspired educational goals for the 21st century?” Initial focal areas were identified as;

• The role of Curricula: Mapping the terrain
• The role of Institutions: Institutional / Organizational Capacities and Benchmarks
• The role of Research in media art & science & technology

A culture of research orientation can be seen as a wider trend in the media arts. What kind of new art genres are being developed by artists’ creative use of mixed media technologies, visual culture and communities and what is their impact on education? New curricula have to be developed, which inform new job profiles of artist researchers and new qualifications. Innovative forms of art practice are being introduced at the intersection of media, arts, science and technology. What are the most effective elements of curricula to educate artists as well as art teachers for the future? The changing media and art institutions require an interactive debate on new conditions and evaluation criteria for developing new models for institutional networks, which allow implementing the media arts across curricula structures. In January 2009 a short strategy summary, outlining focus issues and an action plan for a white paper on policy analysis and planning in media and new media education, was circulated. This was based on international meetings of experts and educators at Mutamorphosis, re:place, ISEA 2008 and ARS Electronica 2008. These meetings revealed that, although most of the sub questions in the identified focal areas overlap to one degree or another, there is also the need to add a discussion of,

• network-centric and intercultural learning methods and processes.

The LEF@ARS09 education session continues this process of international consultation and aims to further the development of a trans-national approach to research, looking at innovative models for educating media artists in the future. Outcomes: This meeting will provide the opportunity to summarize the participants’ input on the focus issues (by means of working groups) and to identify a Steering Committee with leaders for each of the focal areas (which may be modified in the course of the discussions). After the meeting(s), the steering group will, among other things, lead the development, via email forum discussions, of longer papers containing strategic recommendations on policy analysis and planning in media art education in each of the focal areas. These recommendations are intended to outline a vision of education transformed by the context of new learning cultures, rather than one that relies on tweeking traditional models of pedagogy. This material will then be edited into one document intended for stakeholders in the field (practitioners, educators, researchers, theoreticians, historians, etc, as well as administrators and policymakers. The text will also be submitted to the Leonardo Journal of the International Society of Art, Sciences and Technology. Hosts: Nicoletta Blacher, Head of the Ars Electronica Center, Head Education ProgrammeAngelika Plank (AT), Head of Department of  Art Education, Kunstuniversität LinzChrista Sommerer, professor, Department of Media, Interface Culture Ars Electronica Futurelab Organisers: Nina Czegledy (HU), LEF co-chair, board of Leonardo and Leonardo/Olats scientific committee, Daniela Reimann (D/AT), LEF representative Germany; Kunstuniversitaet Linz, Art Education Lynn Hughes (CA), LEF representative, Concordia University Montreal LEF @ ARS 2009 program Friday, September 4, 2009, Venue: ARS Electronica Center 9.00 Welcome by Leonardo Education Forum Nina Czegledy, Ellen Levy, Andrea  Polli, Daniela Reimann, Roger Malina , Victoria Vesna on behalf of LEF 9.10 LEF initiative: state of the art  &  the White Paper Lynn Hughes  Nina Czegledy, Daniela Reimann (presented by Lynn Hughes) 9.30 Keynote host: Nicoletta Blacher, Head of the Ars Electronica Center, Head Education program 9.50 Particia Olynyk, Director, Graduate School of Art Florence and Frank Bush Professor of Art; Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis/USA: Research/Creative work in Media Arts, Technology and Science in Academic Environments 10.10 Wolfram Burgard, Institute of Computer Science, University of Freiburg Head of Autonomous Intelligent Systems Research Lab (to be confirmed) 11.00 Change of venue: University of Art and Industrial Design, Kollegiumsgasse 11.30 Welcome by LEF: Nina Czegledy, Daniela Reimann Lynn Hughes 11. 40 Presentation of "Media Design" ("Mediengestaltung") the new Teacher Training Programme for secondary schools of the University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz Angelika Plank, Head of the Department of Art Education, Kunstuniversität Linz University of Art and Industrial Design, Linz 12.30 lunch break 13-13.30 Presentation "Migrating Art Accademies", Mindaugas Gapsevicius, Vilnius Academy of Arts/ top e.V., Berlin Discussion 14-15 Introduction to Working Groups - Daniela Reimann Working Group Session (3 Rooms) 1.       The Role of Research in media art & science & technology (Lynn Hughes) 2.       Curricula: Mapping the terrain (Maria Cristina V. Biazus, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, RS, Brasil) 3 .      Institutions: Institutional / Organizational Capacities and Benchmarks 15-15.15 Coffee break 15.15- 16 Working group session (3 rooms) continued. 16.15- 17 Working group summary session 19.30 Prix Ars, Brucknerhaus Saturday, 5 September, 2009 Kunstuniversität, Kollegiumsgasse 10.00 Welcome by LEF: Nina Czegledy, Daniela Reimann Lynn Hughes 10.10 Christa Sommerer, Professor for Interface Culture, Department of Media, Kunstuniversität Linz – university of art and industrial design, The Cultural Interface 11.00 Coffee break 11. 10 Erika Pasztor, Head, Media Design Department,  Budapest College of Communication and Business: The future of media art and design is in the hands of education, but who will hold in hand the future of (this) education? 12.00 -12.30 Concluding session Normal 0 21 MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Target group / Participants: educators, artists, scientists, policy makers in the field, general public Web site LEF: http://forum.lefnet.org/hello Kunstuniversität Linz: http:://www.ufg.ac.at Venues: · Ars Electronica Center AEC (Friday 4 September, 9-11 a.m.), Web site: http://www.aec.at/center_about_de.php · Kunstuniversität, University of art and Industrial Design, Standort Kollegiumsgasse, map: http://www.ufg.ac.at/Standort.2537.0.html How to get to Linz: http://wikitravel.org/en/Linz For accommodations in Linz: http://www.aec.at/humannature/en/hotels http://www.linz.at/english/tourism/205.asp Please note: No funding for travel and accommodation can be provided by LEF.