Processing Digital: Opening up to a Space of Emergence in Art Pedagogy
co-presented with Jody Baker, PhD
Abstract:
Networked art practices share conceptual overlaps with current discussions about pedagogy, particularly those that
encourage interactive and collaborative methods of meaning-making in response to contemporary digital culture.
Decentralized processes of learning, which exist in participatory artworks and nonhierarchal art education, are embraced
by the open source movement. In this paper, we argue that open source software can be used to demonstrate a quest for
knowledge that is not representational but rather performative-based - a temporal epistemology that is about critical inquiry
of media and the ongoing discovery of creative ways of interacting with, and remixing, our reality. This paper incorporates
the above ideas into a proposal for a team-taught digital studio/theory course that explores the “remix” phenomenon,
operating online and utilizing open source media. Drawing upon previous online teaching experience, the pedagogical
intentions and anticipations for this course will be discussed.