Newsletter #3

Hello members,

A Video introduction
This week, the core team created a short introductory video introducing our members and providing some information about our first project.
 
Introductory video ‘New Directions for Sustainability’
https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/arts-education-imperatives/intro
 
The speculative project
As we are nearing the project’s first deadline on 10 September, we look forward to receiving your 7-minute videos that you have been executing in the past few weeks. If you have not been able to plan your videos yet, there is still time to check the project brief and participate.
 
Project brief:
https://mcusercontent.com/af5ec75c91e45ffccf9186719/files/31ddca41-e0c2-aeef-d2ee-ee3fff692c2d/A_speculative_Project.01.pdf
 
In this project, we aim to think about what arts education imperatives are, and what the new directions for sustainability might be. The language of what is and what might be/become is a part of this speculative inquiry. We intend to think about what it means to have sustainable research, and what sustainable teaching and learning practices might be. In addition, we address how we work with digital methods and digital sites. By uniting research amongst universities and our partners, we focus on four imperatives: decolonisation, cultural resilience, inclusion, agency, and well-being, and post digital, which are representative of the issues that are currently challenging arts educators around the globe.

Please do not hesitate to engage in and share your suggestions and feedbacks with us.
 
More information about your creative contributions
When developing the videos, please consider the narratives and the story you wish to tell through your research in response to the four imperatives. You can focus on individual or in addition, collaborative, integrated research as long as -it responds to the four imperatives and addresses the existing connections and linkages. The output will live on beyond this research project and will be easily accessible into the future. To protect your input, lodging items through Figshare allows you to have ownership rights over your items. It provides every artefact, (including your seven-minute videos) with a digital object identifier (DOI) for a unique citation.
 
Update on progress
Our collaborating creative team are looking to see what a meta world might look like for the project. They intend to expand on the idea of sustainability which will come from the projects that will later be shared with the team. Jess Williams (artist in residence) who predominantly works in meta worlds, builds virtual reality spaces and augmented reality artworks that are housed in spaces like Mozilla Hubs. These spaces can be used as digital exhibition spaces where it is possible to interact with digital works. Further along the way, project output will be accessible within a virtual exhibition where visitors can engage with the artefacts by “walking” through the exhibition as a digital experience. Working with the artefacts in this exhibition and by using different forms of computational analysis, new works will be developed from the sound and the images.


Dr Jenni Hillman | Project Manager
Nedasadat Sajadi | Research Assistant
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia
E: jenni.hillman@unimelb.edu.au
neda.sajadi@unimelb.edu.au
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