Ideas at Intercreate.org

Toolkits of the Eco Sapiens

Intercreate Team — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:36:24 GMT

The ascendant human. We see ourselves as able to invent our way through any limits. Yet this dominant cultural perception has swept us to a brink of self-destruction. Should we survive current crises, without embedding integrated and systemic thinking, a calamitous repeat seems inevitable. How can the integrated thinking of creativity and the arts play a culture-shifting role? What are the creative, scientific and social toolkits that might nudge our perspectives towards a large-scale re-imagining of our cultural narratives, leading to a wider consciousness around our biosystem dependencies?

Moving the Art Education Paradigm Towards a Technology / Art Synthesis

Kevan Nitzberg — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:39:52 GMT

As a high school art teachers for the past 3 and a half decades, I have been moving more and more into both developing art curriculum that has a computer technology / media arts driven component as well as allowing my students to explore their own connections between traditional and experimental forms of artistic expression. My previous association with Ian Clothier (who is represented here at Intercreate.org), as a writer for art-themagazine.com, was somewhat instrumental in my moving in this direction. Recently my art classroom has turned into a hybrid Mini Mac computer lab and fine art studio which further allows me to engage in the aforementioned approach to teaching art. This article would be an exploration of that process which could also be illustrated with examples of my students’ work if that would also be possible to include.

Workshops

Trudy Lane — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:05:27 GMT

In SCANZ 2006, one of the most fun things was doing the workshops. They were also an original underpinning of the ideas behind setting up SCANZ. All participants should feel free to propose and organise workshops of any kind during the residency. Possibly they could be organised through this site. I could set up a ‘workshops’ category, for people to post to. Would that be helpful?

Demystifying Technology

trudy lane — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 11:28:07 GMT

I would like to do a piece on Nam June Paik and the direct follow on through other artists whose workshops I have participated in—from Nam June to Tetsuo Kogawa’s mini-FM movement to Adam Hyde’s FLOSS Manuals and others.

Comment on Techno-utopianism: computers and a new world (suggested by Trudy Lane)

trudy lane — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:00:23 GMT

Su I am so interested to learn of Samuel Butler having lived at a Canterbury sheep farm while writing Erewhon! Images of the sheep station would be great. (Just for an example idea!).