Daniela Reimann & Maria Cristina Biazus
The disciplines of arts and computer science were integrated in education
scenarios in the framework of a model project ArtDeCom funded
under the “Cultural education in the media age” program of the German
Bund-Länder-Commission. In the project, the disciplines of arts, design
and computer science have been integrated in the context of Mixed
Reality learning spaces (Reimann, D. 2006) developed in general education.
Following from the project, the concept of media art labs has
been introduced as a didactic concept to teach interactive media at
school and university level. The projects have shown that the aesthetic
context and artistic concepts strongly motivate learning and shaping processes related to conceptualize, design, construct and program the
digital media as parts of the creative thinking and acting processes.
The follow up initiative is developing further the idea of augmented virtual
3D-community spaces. During the last year, a lot of activities have been
introduced related to the development of art, art galleries, museums as
well as artist-in-residence programs such as ArsVirtua and the OSMOSA,
an open source museum for open source art. However, only little attempt
has been undertaken in scrutinizing the use of such a community space
for artistic research projects and higher media education.
The lecture will introduce the concept of Mixed Reality learning spaces
and give an outline of a collaborative project initiated in the field of
immersive 3D-Online communities (SecondLife) as an environment for
higher media education. The ongoing project presented is based on the
co-operation of two institutes in different countries. On the long run, the
project aims to explore the opportunities opening up by augmenting
the virtual 3D-community space with video streaming and machinima
for collaborative artistic project-based work of dispersed teams.
Partners:
Department of Visual Arts at the Art Institute of the Federal University
of Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil (Profa. Dra. Maria
Cristina Biazus), University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, Department
of Art Education, Austria, (Dr. Daniela Reimann)
Web site: http://www.daniela-reimann.de/
Blog: http://daniela-reimann.de/media-arts-education
N.E.S.T.A Blog (Nucleo Studies in Subjetivity, Technology and Arte, Art
Institute at the Federal University of Rio Grande Do Sul, Porto Alegre,
Brazil): http://nesta-grupo.blogspot.com/
Interactive installations.
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