InAEA

Time	Presenter	Title	Abstract
8:00 SLT	Keynote speaker: Bryn Oh	Bryn Oh: An artist’s perspective on creating in a virtual space	Bryn Oh's talk will focus on the unique traits which a virtual space has that differentiates itself over traditional art mediums such as painting and cinema. specifically Bryn will talk on the historical techniques which artists use to achieve viewer immersion, and then compare them to the creative process using the virtual medium.
9:00 SLT	Rebecca Kan	Exploring Practices of Performance through a 5E Instructional Model	Twenty-first-century skills for student professional musicians include nurturing creative attitudes and embracing contemporary practices by leveraging on historical perspectives. Negotiating such skills is a perennial challenge within the conservatoire paradigm, which inclines towards a practice-based model, where learners set their goals on achieving excellent levels of performance. This presentation outlines a design that responds to the needs of learning in a 21C music academy, using the 5E Learning Model. This model, first developed by Roger Bybee, comprises of five cognitive phases of learning: engagement, exploration, explanation, elaboration and evaluation. The study explores the effectiveness of this learning cycle in an integrated performance-led curriculum that challenges systemic designs of the traditional conservatoire. In this study, the learning model was incorporated in a project that converges the learning of key skills of the music with practices of performance such as dynamics, tempo, rhythm alterations and articulation. The design opens unique opportunities for explore collision and challenges of hybrid pedagogical approaches within learning in the arts.
10:00 SLT	Lana Skender	Encouraging Creative Thinking by Reinterpreting works of art	Making new ideas is a result of creative thinking as a specific mental activity .Although it has been identified with artistic talent for a long time it is equally represented as among scientists as among artists. Contemporary theories of creativity have proved that creativity is not only an artistic gift but it can be developed and improved by implementation of structured methodology that encourages lateral thinking recognizable by idea generation and creating new concepts. Creative thinking is the main art process starter from the first faze of cognitive idea development to the material workmanship. Different artistic procedures such as construction, deconstruction, redefinition, reinterpretation, can be impulsive to the students' creative thinking development. These procedures implementation into the Visual arts teaching activities enriche the works of art reception by transforming the very artistic ideas, which students use to test the creativity possibilities , using the works of art or the process as a template. Today generations of digital natives are familiar to using digital technology in works of art reinterpretations due to simplicity of realization and feeling close to digital habitat. Transformation of material ideas into only visual interpretation neglects making component of works of art but leaves more space for creative context mutation and critical reflexion.
11:00 SLT	Michael Flannery	Evaluating MUVE technology for visual arts inquiry	Visual arts inquiry (VAI) and its related contextual studies has long been an established and valued component of teaching visual arts. While first hand engagement with original work is not always feasible, most traditional secondary sources cannot replicate the original work accurately with respect to actual scale or kinetic movement. Paradoxically, VAI in many gallery settings has limitations with respect to permitted proximity, interactivity and viewing time. This case study evaluates the potentiality of multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) for VAI with student primary teachers. It examines the effectiveness of the MUVE Second Life in enabling students to understand critical concepts concerning medium, movement and musicality in visual art. The study specifically investigates to which MUVE tools or affordances participants attribute their learning. This case study is one element of a larger piece of collaborative research concerning digital skills in action with four other partners including National College of Art and Design, Trinity College Dublin, University College Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology (lead partner) and is funded by The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. While appreciating the study is context specific, its findings will be of particular interest to art educators in understanding how MUVE technologies can be used to develop subject connoisseurship or scaffold self-directed learning in arts education. Taking cognisance of the All Aboard, Digital Skills in Higher Education Framework (2015), this study has relevance to arts educators interested in creatively integrating virtual world technologies into arts education practices.
12:00 SLT	Sandrine Han	From creating ecosystem in virtual world to discuss how to foster creativity in art education	This research is an international collaborating project using the method of participatory observational case study. In this research, high school students from Vancouver, BC and Phoenix, AZ worked in the virtual world of VCER. Students from two areas constructed their own ecosystem in the VCER and the researcher compared, contrasted, and discussed the similarities and differences of the ecosystem and the visual components in the virtual environments, specifically from creativity perspective. The research finding shows the less structure students has, fewer number of students working in a group, and fewer reusable virtual resources students have elevated students creativity. The age of the students and the setting of these two research cites might influence student creative thinking, and these will also be discussed in the presentation.
1:00 pm SLT	Julian Crooks & June Julian	The Second Life Artist Project	Our project is a twist on Metropolitan Museum of Art’s online series, The Artist Project – What Artists See When They Look at the Met. http://artistproject.metmuseum.org/ That project shares the perspectives of one hundred and twenty living contemporary artists responding to art objects in The Met Museum. In The Second Life Artist Project, we will have avatars of three famous artists from art history, such as Frida Kahlo, Georgia O’Keeffe, & Vincent Van Gogh, respond to three pieces of contemporary art. Presented as an opportunity for continuing collaboration, this project focuses on issues of co-presence, relational aesthetics, avatar creation and identity.
2:00 SLT	Mary Stokrocki	Eco Guardians vs. The Stingers in Swirling Dust Devils	This action research focuses on Arizonan students building ecological installations on the Opensim, using a gamification approach, including avatars, simulation goals, building rules, and pre and post questionnaires. Eight volunteer students simulated their Sonoran desert by building 3-D creatures, a nest, and writing short popup reflections about the creatures. Since this was the third year study of this same context, new building results occurred, such as canyon creations made with bulldozer tool, spinning animations, and transparency features. Major questions pursued were: What did you learn about building? What did you learn about ecology? What relates in an ecosystem? Who is watching whom? Their final story evolved as the eco-guardians kept a watch over the scorpion stingers, all of which were floating and enveloped by dust devils. When students are guided to create their own simulations and reflect on them with exciting popup notecards, surprising accidental results occur.
3:00 SLT	Closing

InAEA 2ND BIANNUAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: ART EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF CREATIVITY

Thu, 18 Feb 2016 13:51:00 -0700

InAEA 2^ND BIANNUAL VIRTUAL CONFERENCE: ART EDUCATION IN THE ERA OF CREATIVITY

Hosted by InAEA

Endorsed by InSEA http://www.insea.org/

Supported by NAEA Art Education Technology

Sponsored by Wu Ya Hsien

Call for proposal is extended to August 31!

DATE/TIME: September 24th (Sat), 2016, 8:00 am PDT to 4:00 pm PDT

VIRTUAL VENUE: Second Lifehttp://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/HITHOP/220/160/32

ONLINE VENUE: Google Hangout On Air

PRESENTATION VENUE: Second Life & Google Hangout On Air

FEE: Free

PURPOSE: The goal of the art education virtual conference is to connect art educators through technologies and to exchange ideas on using digital technologies in art education. Art educators will explore the possibilities and benefits of using virtual world technology to deliver and participate in presentations.

THEME: Creativity always holds an important position in art education. How to make creative and meaningful art, how to use materials and skills creatively, how to creatively use visual communication in art works: these are just few of the questions that art educators never stop pondering.

With today’s advanced technology, creativity in art education becomes even more important. When people create a website or an app, how to catch the attention of users and hold their interest requires a creative solution. When people use 3D printers or virtual goggles to create technological content, art and creativity are the two of the most important skills required.

We encourage art educators to think and rethink the importance of creativity in art education and in the era of technology. Here are a few questions and ideas that we encourage participants to consider and discuss.

How do we define creativity in the era of digital technologies?
How can we foster creativity through digital technologies?
How does creativity in new technologies influence the field of visual culture?
What are the future possibilities of using technology to foster creativity?
What are the possibilities of interdisciplinary collaboration to foster student creativity?
How does the Makers Movement foster creativity in art education?
A critical reflection of using technology to achieve creativity in art education.
A vision or anticipation of using virtual world technology to achieve creativity in art education.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: (Deadline: August 31, 2016)

Categories:

Research: Research papers based on art education and creativity
Best Practices: Best practice of creativity in art education.

FORMAT:

Panel Discussions;
Lectures; Workshops;
3D Posters;
Exhibitions

PROPOSAL GUIDELINE

Submit a proposal to inaeaorg@gmail.com
The proposal should be no more than 200 words.
The presentation title should be included in the email and in the attached document.
Panel discussions and roundtable discussions are strongly encouraged.

DESCRIPTION

The conference will be held in the virtual world of Second Life.http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/HITHOP/227/166/300
The virtual conference will also be streamed on the Internet via Google Hangout on Air.
The related links will be posted onhttp://www.inaea.org/ andhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/inaea/ in early October.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Opening keynote: Virtual world expert (To be announced)

FORMATS GUIDELINES

Panel Discussions: Virtual world panel: 50 minutes (30 minute panel presentation with 20 minute discussion.)
Lectures: Virtual world lecture: 40 minutes (20 minute presentation with 20 minutes in world/Google hangout discussion.)
Workshops: Virtual world workshop: 50 minutes
3D Poster: Each poster presenter(s) will have a limit of 15 prims* to construct the poster. (* In Second Life, everything is made by prims. A prim is a single-part object. Multi-part objects will have multiple "prims".)
Exhibition: Machinima, video, and art should be submitted in an electronic format. Educators are encouraged to submit their own and their students’ media art.

Related document:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeZMvPrsfAqbGM3ZU5yRUdhTE0/view?usp=sharing

Call for student artworks: Celebrating the 2016 UNESCO International Arts Education Week

Wed, 13 Jan 2016 23:16:00 -0700

Celebrating the 2016 UNESCO International Arts Education Week

Dear friends,

International Art Education Association (InAEA) and International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) would like to invite you to join us to celebrate 2016 UNESCO International Arts Education Week (23-29 May, 2016). http://waae.edcp.educ.ubc.ca/?page_id=350

Theme: Arts Education for Sustainable Development

This theme carries on from International Arts Education Week 2015 and recognises the ongoing importance of arts education in contributing to local and global awareness of cultural, economic, environmental and humanitarian concerns. Arts Education with a core emphasis on doing/making/presenting offers exciting, dynamic, cross generational opportunities for action.

Exhibition Venue:

http://www.inaea.org/
InAEA Second Life locationhttp://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/HITHOP/220/160/32

Call for art works:

Opens until May 16
Format: online videos, digital images (art works, student works, posters), music, music videos… If you have other creative ways of participating in this event, please let us know!
Submit art works with the submission form to inaeaorg@gmail.com
Online exhibition date: 23-29 May, 2016
Virtual world exhibition opening date: May 22, 10 am (PST).

Certification:

All the participated artists will receive a PDF participation certification via email after the event.

Past years Arts Education Week art works and event photos can be found at:

For more information, please see:

Submission Form

Artist(s):

Country:

Title of the work:

File name:

Media:

Short description of the work (less than 120 words):

Geometric Grids in Painting

Wed, 02 Dec 2015 07:32:00 -0700

One day while thumbing through a book I noticed what seemed a deliberate awkwardness in Leonardo da Vinci's Bacchus/John the Baptist. The pose, pointing with both hands, seemed curiously clumsy for Leonardo, and I had never seen anything clumsy from him before. I remembered that he left illustrations of hexagonal geometry. This geometry is easily drawn with a compass and ruler, without making any alterations in compass angle; the first two points used in its construction determine the rest of the grid, thus the entire grid (which is quite complex) can be indicated with only two points.

So I cut out the picture and went to work. The result was suggestive but far from conclusive, so I started going through art books looking for people pointing. Eventually I found over 300 examples of paintings and sculpture done this way: Rembrandt's Night Watch, Velasquez's Meninas, Manet's Luncheon on the Grass; some of the most famous artworks in the world. This extends in an unbroken line from at least the early Renaissance until today; MC Escher frequently used hexagonal grids in his work, and contemporary artist Odd Nerdrum confirmed my analysis of two of his paintings. Since this is such an extravagant claim, and many readers will no doubt be incredulous, as I was, I will here provide a few quotes supporting it:

Charles Bouleau, The Painter's Secret Geometry:

In the Middle Ages the 'geometry' of a work of art, whether picture, bas-relief or page of manuscript, consisted chiefly in the use of the regular polygons as an armature, as an interior framework, figures that were sometimes quite complicated, with five, six or eight sides, not forgetting the double figures formed by the star pentagons and hexagons.

Albrect Durer, The Painter's Manual:

Considering, however, that this is the true foundation for all painting, I have proposed myself to propound the elements for the use of all eager students of Art, and to instruct them how they may employ a system of Measurement with Rule and Compass, and thereby learn to recognize the real Truth, seeing it before their eyes.

Michelangelo:

It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hand executes, but the eye judges.

Dionysius of Fourna, Painter's Manual:

When you want to draw on a wall, first level the surface and then attach pieces of wood to the legs of a pair of metal compasses, to make them as long as you want, and tie a brush to one end so that you can mark with color the proportions of the figure and describe their halos. When you have marked the proportions of the figure, take some ochre and draw first with a watery solution.

Salvador Dali, Fifty Secrets of Magic Craftsmanship:

I tell you here, young painter, yes, yes, yes, and Yes! you must, especially during your adolescence, make use of the geometric science of guiding lines of symmetry to compose your pictures. I know that painters of more or less romantic tendency claim that these mathematical scaffoldings kill and artist's inspiration, giving him too much to think and reflect upon. Do not hesitate at that moment to answer them that on the contrary it is in order not to have to think and reflect upon them the you make use of the properties, unique and of a natural magic, derived from the wise use of the golden section, and called the divina proporzione by Luca Pacioli in his memorable book, the most important of aesthetic treatises...

...As I do not wish you to spend days and killing hours which you might devote to painting at your mathematical calculations, I shall now reveal to you the secret of the compass - and this is Secret Number 47 - by means of which you will be able automatically to find as many golden sections as you wish, without having recourse to the painful geometric operation for which you often need an immense compass, requiring that you go beyond the area of your painting, ant this is often so inconvenient that your laziness will counsel you at last to get along without such a proportion...

...And the fact that such compasses are not currently for sale at paint dealers is but the proof of the lack of geometric rigor of schools of art, and of modern painters in particular.

BIENNIAL OF CHILDREN'S AND YOUTH'S CREATIVITY

Tue, 03 Nov 2015 00:01:46 -0700

Dear Educators, Teachers, Students, Parents,
We invite children and young people from around the world to take part in Biennial of Children’s & Youth’s Art Creativity THE GREAT WELL-KNOWN AND UNKNOWN ARTISTS.
The aim of this project is to popularize knowledge of art history and passing it through creative activities and visual works.
14th edition of International Art Competition is titled VINCENT VAN GOGH - WITH THE BRUSH AMONGST THE STARS.
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More info on website: www.mdk.rybnik.pl
or by e-mail: art-studio-creatio@wp.pl
Best regards
Aldona Kaczmarczyk-Kołucka
Contest Curator

USSEA Regional Conference An Inclusive World: Bridging Communities July 17-July 19 2015

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 23:11:35 -0700

Join us for a three day conference of local, national, international museum educators, arts teachers, professors, gallerists, and artists. Over 65 sessions include best practices, panels, and hands on workshops. Registration includes two days of breakfast and lunch at the new museum café, an opening reception, weekend pass to the Hall of Science, access to ongoing exhibits of Tiffany glass and the NYC panorama, plus designated time shuttles from the Willets Point station to the Museum before the conference begins.

The conference examines arts and culture in classrooms, museums and community arts organizations. The goals of the conference are to find ways that participants in these different contexts might share resources, knowledge, and expertise to enrich their respective disciplines. The conference topics are as follows: Inclusion in Learning Communities, Effective Tools for Diverse Community Engagement in the Museum, Debating the Stigma of “Outsider Art,” Art and Social Practice, and High and Low Tech Tools for 21st century Art Education. The four keynote speakers were invited based on these points. They are each renowned representatives in their fields.

For more information, please see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByeZMvPrsfAqU3BvaHJvX3kycmhXdWw2aXlVZWFoLWtGSUNn/view?usp=sharing

2015 Arts Education Week

Sun, 24 May 2015 23:15:36 -0700

Theme: Arts Education for Sustainable Development·

Sustainable development is defined as development that meets the needs of the present, without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987)
It is recognised that sustainable development requires balanced progress in four
interdependent dimensions (Hawkes, 2001): Social, Economic, Environmental, and Cultural

Exhibition Venue:

http://www.inaea.org/ArtEducationWeek2015/index.html
InAEA Second Life locationhttp://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/HITHOP/220/160/32

2014 Arts Education Week art works and event photos can be found at: http://www.inaea.org/ArtEducationWeek2014/index.html

2014 Arts Education Week

Sun, 24 May 2015 23:10:18 -0700

Theme: Advocating the importance of arts education.

Draw attention to the role of arts educations plays in the global agenda of peace and cultural understanding.

Exhibition Venue:

http://www.inaea.org/ArtEducationWeek2014/index.html
InAEA Second Life locationhttp://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/HITHOP/220/160/32

UNESCO Arts Education Week

Sun, 24 May 2015 22:59:42 -0700

International Art Education Association (InAEA) and International Society for Education through Art (InSEA) would like to invite you to join us to celebrate the UNESCO International Arts Education Week.