"Pizza web cam luncheons on new media arts education" *Note that times may change and that not all speakers are confirmed! Wednesdays January January 19, 2005 2pm Hierarchies Christoph Spehr Bremen, Germany (author of "Gleicher als Andere") How can we do away with false hierarchies striving for free cooperation in pedagogical spaces? Paulo Freire's notions of informal, non-hierarchical teaching is still useful and can be brought together with Christoph Spehr's notion of free cooperation. Teaching for collaboration-- successful examples of collaborative new media edu projects 6pm Tools and Open Content Blogging, and Wireless projects such as ActiveCampus, ActiveClass at UCSD, Isight and the AccessGrid(.org) Axel Bruns Axel Bruns (Media & Communication Discipline, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology) (Brisbane, Australia) On collective authorship, and peer-to-peer publishing. Wednesday, Jan 19, 6pm location to be announced Bruns is part of the Fibreculture team and teaches at Queensland University of Technology. He is general editor of M/C - Media and Culture (http://www.media-culture.org.au/) and has been involved with dotlit: The Online Journal of Creative Writing, with Donna Lee Brien and Philip Neilsen, and QUT's streaming media station EMIT. Bruns's research interests are in online publishing, virtual communities, creative industries, creative hypertext writing, and popular music studies. His book Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production will be published by Peter Lang in 2005. http://snurb.info - - - January 26, 2005 (with faculty from the Master Program at Eindhoven Design Academy) Which structure of educational settings works best to foster collaboration and consultation? Theme-based rather than media-oriented departments offer more flexible learning contexts allowing for experiments, undaunted by the possibility of failure. -- How can we overcome the non-diverse new media classroom? Involvement of women and students of diverse backgrounds. - - - February February 2, 2005 Politics in the New Media Classroom Political (New Media) Art Megan Bohler http://kmdi.utoronto.ca/ Knowledge, Media, Design Institute (KMDI) University of Toronto Thinking about educators some may argue that there is no room for the personal politics of the professor in the classroom. We disagree. The Greek word "professore" means " to proclaim." It does not mean "say nothing, look the other side when hundreds of people die in Iraq, when our civil liberties vanish under the Patriot Act, academic freedom of speech is questioned, or when the International Monetary Fund ruins yet another Jamaica." - - - February 9, 2005 Open Source Edu Tool Box Ricardo Miranda Zuniga (artist, University of New Jersey) Create a resource for open source tools for teaching that can be implemented right now and are stable enough to support concrete projects (openoffice.org, gimp.org, ...) - - - February 16, 2005 Patrick Lichty (editor-in chief of Intelligent Agent) Cooperative technologies and open content initiatives (blogs, IM, Wikitexts, Wikibooks, Wikipedia, Wikiversity, MITOpenCourseWare, opentheory.org) - - - February 23, 2005 Blogging Eduardo Navas (UCSD) "Diary of a Star," a critical take on blogging that appropriates selections from the Andy Warhol Diaries. http://navasse.net/star/context.html - - - March March 2, 2005 The Distributed Learning Project (dlp) Few faculty are able to teach both, advanced levels of coding and theory in their social contexts. Without much precedence, faculty has to constantly familiarize itself with new software packages, theory and run to catch up with consequential cultural work Using the semantic web the dlp connects chunks of knowledge across disciplines and cultures, aiding new media arts educators. The interface allows content to be accessed based on the idea of the semantic web in which the aforementioned micro-content/ "content chunks" are semantically associated with each other. A person that inputs material about expanded cinema, for example, may be linked to loops in music by Steve Reich and to tutorials about the creation of loops in php, and an essay by Matthew Fuller. These semantic associations enable cross-disciplinarity in the creation of syllabi. Courses, lecture series or research material can be aggregated in the project stage of this web-based application. - - - March 9, 2005 Goals of Education Saul Albert (University of Openess, London) Education, like public broadcasting, should not be afraid of low ratings and small profits. Do-it-yourself models of alternative learning situations in new media arts that escape the commoditization of education. Some Examples: The School of Missing Studies, The Commune Des Arts (Munich), Die Freie Klasse (Berlin, Vienna). What do we mean when we talk about new media art practice?
 Can art be taught? What is art in a new media context in which communication is often privileged over objects, organization, data collection and analysis, back-end design, and aesthetics over content. Can forms of dialogue become art? What cannot be taught? - - - March 16, 2005 Claire Pentecost (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) Howstuffismade Project (UCSD) - - - March 23, 2005 Collaboration in the New Media Arts Pedagogy Joline Blais (Univ. of Maine), Alex Halavais (UB) Evaluating Collaborative Work: Tenure Processes in New Media How can collaborative work and publishing on blogs, and mailinglists be evaluated? What are criteria to evaluate new media practioners? - - - March 30, 2005 Students should learn that the conquistadors of new media art don't only produce in New York and Berlin but also in Riga, Singapore and Delhi. Which concrete projects do that? - - - April April 6 Approaches to Technology John Hopkins http://neoscenes.com How do we stretch a vision between the Futurist narratives of progress with all their techno-optimism and the technophobia often encountered in more traditional cultural theorists? What can we do about anti-intellectualism and boredom in the undergraduate classroom? Concrete examples of useful assignments and ways in which to teach theory or tech (ie. How could the role plays proposed by Augusto Boal's "Games for Actors and Non-actors" be applied to the teaching theatre?) - - - April 13 Topics for New Media Arts Education Games and Education The widespread uncertainty ranges from the question of relevant topics, to readings with longer expiration dates. To the postmodern theorists like Foucault, Virillio, and Derrida, we can add the rich collection that Noah Wardip-Fruin and Nick Montfort's "New Media Reader" offers. April 20 Combination of theory and practice =========