Newsletter #8

An Arts Education Imperative: New Directions for Sustainability 
Newsletter No. 8
22 October 2021

Hello members, 

Update on progress

Exciting news! Our team has successfully prepared two presentations for the 2021 conference, "Creative CONVERGENCE Créative", hosted by The Canadian Network for Arts & Learning coming up on 28-29 October. Also, we are continuously developing the Mozilla Hubs space which hosts the project artefacts. Here are two more quilt layouts made by our wonderful data scientist. These quilts include twenty image snapshots taken every 20 seconds from each video that we received from you. This week, Jenni and Emily have kindly agreed for their quilt images to be added to our newsletter. 

The wonderful image quilt from Jenni’s video, Sustainability in Tertiary Music Education, takes us through her research. The coloured waveform shows the audio signature of the speaker. 
https://doi.org/10.26188/16682641.v2

This beautiful quilt is created from Emily’s video, Engaging Arts Education. Placing the images side-by-side with the visual representation of the audio in the bottom right patch gives us a brief overview of the visual and audio data of her work. 
https://doi.org/10.26188/16815331

The Arts Imperatives Mozilla Hub  

Mozilla Hubs is a collaboration tool used to create virtual spaces to be inhabited and frequented using mixed reality. Its first-person nature (either by VR or keyboard + mouse) sets it apart from other browser-based collaboration tools. The Mozilla environment is powered through an interconnected environment which can integrate many different platforms into its interface. Hubs offer innovative solutions for replacing non-physical interactions and can be used to encourage interaction between patrons. As everything is viewed at the ‘human-scale’, this platform offers the potential to be used as both a gallery and collaboration or meeting site for the research project.  

We will share a video recording of our first interaction through the Hubs space in the upcoming newsletters. Until then, please jump in and interact with the development of the two Arts Imperatives sites in Mozilla Hubs (you might run into Jess, Amanda, Neda or Kate in there):  

          1. Project Outdoor Lobby https://hub.link/nFyc5iB 
          2. Arts Imperatives Indoor Gallery https://hub.link/wWJEaXq 

 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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I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung peoples of the Kulin nation, and pay my respects to the Elders, past, present and future.