What can be? Art education as a freedom of opinion and expression
Author(s):
Anna Marcinkowska (presenting / submitting)
Conference:
ECER 2014
Format:
Paper

Session Information

29 SES 02 B, Arts Education and Technologies

Paper Session

Time:
2014-09-02
15:15-16:45
Room:
B111 Sala de Aulas
Chair:
Fernando Hernández-Hernández

Contribution

The research questions are inscribed in the widespread perspective of understanding what is or what can be art education. As a platform for this reflection I propose the philosophical concept of photography of Vilém Flusser and the artistic inquiry of the animated movie 'Une Mission Ephémère' ('One ephemeral mission') by Piotr Kamler. From these points I focus particulary on being a media and information literate. I put emphasis on a particular attitude of conducting research according to attitudes of taking photgraphs, defined by Flusser. The two bipolars are: a fuctionnaire, and a good photographer. The aim is to conduct the research in the same manner like a good photographer takes photographs.
The main objectives of the research are to revise the definitions of art education and to describe how the processes of the acquisition of new literacies  look and what kind of processes they can be.
This process can be analyzed by using an art-based research case study of Kamler's movie. The film describes a process of knowing through experiences. Kamler is eschewing linear narratives, the film is built using visual variations. In Kamler's film the globe is the key of processing. Fluctuations within this globe are taking place all the time. Step by step the globe is changing. During the fluctuations one of the cubes becomes a space of the same process of change: the globe, the half-globe, the cubes. The dynamics of the creation puts the same porcesses in different scales, we can observe the macroscale of a half-globe's space and the microscale of a cube's space. These spaces, are not separated but interfused. in the film a robot/human/child which is formed/created by the globe explores different forms and shapes and moves in differential operations, relations and rhythms. The process of creation gradually transforms into the implosion of forms. That is the  starting haven for our research artistic inquiry, for me and the participants. The intent is to follow the non-linear structure of the animated movie.
The process of the creating of the learner and of the artist is well described in Kamler's movie. Learners and artists get to know the things in cycles. Cycle by cycle they are all the time in the globe but they also are like a globe which can be to shaped - by themselves and by their experiences and the experiences which can be found within the globe. This is about user-generated content which is shared and experienced by many people and through the user-generated content they can communicate but only if they are able to code and encode to work on the information they get.

Method

It is an artistic inquiry of the animated movie 'One ephemeral mission'. The film is the main data for the analysis and artistic inquiry. It is a platform for further multilayer actions. The possible answer is sketched by cycle research analysis which are conduct by the founder of the context – me, and also by participants – the students of audiovisual art and possiblY other participants who are interested in it and want to try it out. Founding the context works the same as with  interactive works of art where the artist founds the context through his/her idea and participants are also invited to create the work of art. The outcome of each participant and the outcome of the founder of the context is a layer of reflection. The merged layers give one collective finding. As it is designed as an open-ended method, the research findings which are going to be presented in the paper are the description of the possible state where particular outcomes are merged. The open structure gives the possibility for the audience to overwrite and enrich the inquiry. The founder of the context starts with a model of the process of education understanding  which is designed on the movie's base. The analysis is understood as a multiple way of knowing and is aimed to provide A wide range of forms of expression.  The action is a complementary part of a/r/t ography project which is conducted with students of audiovisual arts at Silesian University in Opava. Students are trying to be active a/r/t ogrpahers in their own milieus.  

Expected Outcomes

The desire is to found a research space where everyone is given a voice and can influence a fluctuative and open-ended model of learning which spreads from art-knowledge built outcomes.   The main expected outcomes are the following:  to design collectively a model of education which is flexible and open,  an essay to create a definition based on artistic inquiry,  to explore the layers of reflection as meaningful for a collective research,  the emphasis on art as a way of knowing,  to discover art work as a multicontext platform for researchers as well as for partpiciapnts and the audience,  the redefinition of art education in communal reflection,  to provide variable use of outcomes thanks to the  spread of the methodology's character,  to try to reflect on an eduactional flexible model from very local perspective to global perpective, like in the movie, and in the line with the design concept of 'starting with as small samples as we can'.

References

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Author Information

Anna Marcinkowska (presenting / submitting)
1.Opole University, 2.Silesian University in Opava
1.Institute of Pedagogical Sciences, 2.Departement of Audiovisual Arts
Opole

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